Google Photos for iOS Now Supports Magic Eraser Tool for Google One Subscribers

[d686546s]

If you have a Mac, then this tool exists in Photos on your Mac, it's called Retouch.

I'm not at my Mac right now so can't test it, but from the feature description online this seems to me a tool that allows you to manually remove objects by copying stuff from elsewhere?

If so that's not the same kind of feature at all. With Magic Eraser you just circle the thing you want gone and the tool figures out how to best fill the area.

Edit: After checking it out on YouTube it's actually closer to what Google does than I thought. No idea how well it performs in practice and the examples I've seen seemed underwhelming, but good to know it exists. Would still be great if Apple incorporated an improved version in iOS.

 

[vegetassj4]

Can it erase my unflattering features and make me a runway model?

 

[erikkfi]

This is a cool feature I'd like to see in the Photos app across devices.

 

[philstubbington]

Apple needs to get this incorporated ASAP. I love that feature, and want it baked into iOS without need of a 3rd party.

Pretty sure you can do this with pixelmator. Maybe Apple will build it in, but in the meantime that’s the best third party option IMO.

 

[centauratlas]

Yes! Now i can finally get to have my own Stalin moment of deleting people from my pictures!

The question, for some, then will become, why have a wedding with no groom/bride? 😂

 

[PrecisionGem]

I just tried it and it pales in comparison to Retouch on Google Pixel phones. I imagine Apple will release an updated Photos app with iOS/Mac this fall that utilizes ML & neural engines.

These tools results do vary depending on the background, and if you use them more than one time on the same area. I' sure the examples Google show are some of the best results.

Here's a photo with a person removed. First the original photo.
The next one is using Photos on the Mac, which did the worst job. Next is Affinity Photo, then Luminar and last is Capture one.

 

[testcard]

Apple needs to get this incorporated ASAP. I love that feature, and want it baked into iOS without need of a 3rd party.

Ideally without a “plan”.

 

[NoGood@Usernames]

Not seeing it just yet, but I’m excited to check it out shortly!

 

[luxborealis]

Apple just needs to buy RETOUCH and incorporate its amazing retouch options. It is a great app!!

 

[LeadingHeat]

If it’s supported on older phones and now iPhones (assuming they’re not tapping into the neural engine), where is the processing happening? On google’s servers? Meaning they have access to my photos? No thanks.

Also, a Google-provided VPN?? LOL

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Apple needs to get this incorporated ASAP. I love that feature, and want it baked into iOS without need of a 3rd party.

Nope, sorry, EU says that would be anticompetitive.

 

[Jason2000]

Apple needs to get this incorporated ASAP. I love that feature, and want it baked into iOS without need of a 3rd party.

Hopefully this is next. They already have the feature of isolating a subject and cutting it out so it would not take much to add this ability I would think.

 

[Shanghaichica]

They always give all the goodies away. Do they actually want anyone to get an android phone.

 

[jwolf6589]

Apple needs to get this incorporated ASAP. I love that feature, and want it baked into iOS without need of a 3rd party.

Yes it needs to be in the apple photos app on iOS, iPad, and Mac.

 

[PrecisionGem]

They always give all the goodies away. Do they actually want anyone to get an android phone.

Google doesn't give anything away. You are the product, they attract you so that they can sell information about you.

 

[compwiz1202]

They need to reword the headline and first line to also imply this isn't available to all yet, and will this rollout take as long as GMail Dark Mode did?

 

[zinacef]

Google doesn't give anything away. You are the product, they attract you so that they can sell information about you.

Google doesn’t “sell information about you”. If they did, they would be out of business. That’s not how their ad program works.

 

[roland.g]

And yet no one talks about the fact that removing others from our photos makes us more social media 'me' driven and leads to increasingly insular lives rather than having a sense of community. It's odd that social media has created a more compartmentalized society with less interaction despite the tools to do the opposite, observe any pre-teens/teens/college age groups to see how bad it is getting. What's next, "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind"

 

[B4rbelith]

Are there currently any free/reasonably priced third-party iOS apps that do this well while we wait for Apple to catch up?

Touchretouch and Pixelmator Photo.

 

[lazyrighteye]

There's a part of me that says "F that! Take better pictures."
There is also a part of me that says "I'd not complain if Apple made similar functionality native to Camera (or Photos)." 😜

 

[gnipgnop]

FYI: Photos for macOS already has a healing brush. Apple just hasn't included it with the iOS/iPadOS versions. See below...it's under 'Retouch' and you paint over the elements in the photo you want removed.

 

[FelixDerKater]

This seems like something Apple could do themselves with all the Neural Engine talk.

 

[Mousse]

These tools results do vary depending on the background, and if you use them more than one time on the same area. I' sure the examples Google show are some of the best results.

Here's a photo with a person removed. First the original photo.
The next one is using Photos on the Mac, which did the worst job. Next is Affinity Photo, then Luminar and last is Capture one.

Maybe I'm too picky, but all of the photos where the woman was erased, the shadow is screwed up. The cart's shadow is trippy in all of the "fixed" photos. A truly ham-fisted approach to photo editing. I'll ignore how the shadow of the old woman in front of the dude looks like two people's shadow instead of one.

I'm not seeing the level that Google brags about in their Pixel phone ads.😒

Well, the technology is still young. I'm excited to see how this technology will develop.😊

 

[jimbobb24]

My google friends have not been impressed with this. But I have not used it - hopefully apple has a copy cooking and its great.

 

[valkraider]

Nothing like a revisionist history.

Just one more reason why we can’t trust any photography or video anymore.

Personally, I don’t want to remove things. The photos are of my vacation and if the people and things were there then they should be in the photos - otherwise it’s not a representation of what the event was like.

What happens to our brains when we remember something but then look at altered photos later on - and our brain tries to reconcile the memories?

Does anyone really believe all these people got to be the only person visiting the tower of Pisa that day? That we got an exclusive invite to the Great Wall of China?

Just enjoy your experiences and stop obsessing about how things appear on your social media…