yes it is one of the features where I was it will probably work on my 14 Pro but guess not
It probably could they just want us to buy new phones.
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iOS 18.1: Remove Unwanted Objects From Your Photos
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It probably could they just want us to buy new phones.
15 pro max
But this isn't new information sadly. Apple have always been clear that AI will only work on 15pros and above.
Agreed on country being annoying and even though photo cleanup seems to have slipped through the net (I think it's by mistake!) the country and language settings do make more sense to be omitted for writing tools AI.
And no, even with cleanup working there is no new Siri visualisation in the UK but again thats for 18.2
Some elements of this already exist in the Content Authenticity Initiative, which has many big organizations and companies as members, including Canon, Nikon, Leica and large news agencies.
Imagine this…
Tim took all these photos on his iphone 20 but looking back there’s something not quite right. A visit to the Genius Bar later that day reveled that Apple Intelligence had “cleaned” up Tim’s photo album.
What was most horrifying for Tim was that a long gone relative was inserted into a picture of the family at the gathering after their own funeral. His grown daughter was present at her mums bedside immediately after her own birth. And a trash can was front and center at his son’s graduation.
🤔
Tim took all these photos on his iphone 20 but looking back there’s something not quite right. A visit to the Genius Bar later that day reveled that Apple Intelligence had “cleaned” up Tim’s photo album.
What was most horrifying for Tim was that a long gone relative was inserted into a picture of the family at the gathering after their own funeral. His grown daughter was present at her mums bedside immediately after her own birth. And a trash can was front and center at his son’s graduation.
🤔
While I understand Apple's approach of "it's all done on device!" over other's being done on remote servers, the worst part is other have mentioned, it doesn't work very well. Amazing Apple allows subpar results on things others have been doing for years. Even when compared to some apps in their own app store. Glad I waited to upgrade my 13 Pro Max. At this rate by the time they get all this working, your going to need an iPhone 18 or 19 to run the proper version of OS.
Probably like you I'm old enough to talk to people where they say, "Hey I was at that {party/event}!" and sure enough looking through some old photos there they are in the background. 😄
It works brilliantly in Photos under MacOS (I don't seem to have it on my iPhone or iPad) - you would never be able to tell that it had been used unless you knew where the deleted part of the image had been.
I want to do this for about 40% of the photos I take on vacation. The photos are just better without the randos in them.
Just now, I removed some slippers that were thrown on the floor in the background of a spontaneous photo I took of my son.
Played with this last night to experiment with removing some ”photo bombers” from a handful of pics from a recent trip.
It’s not refined enough to smoothly remove someone/something in the background that is touching what you want to keep. Works really well if it otherwise detects what you want to remove. Not great with water backgrounds. It also missed a woman who was in our picture at a doorway I wanted to keep in the shot. The manual brush worked well enough in that instance.
Only used it with sunny daylight pictures. Not sure how it would do with nighttime photos.
It’s not refined enough to smoothly remove someone/something in the background that is touching what you want to keep. Works really well if it otherwise detects what you want to remove. Not great with water backgrounds. It also missed a woman who was in our picture at a doorway I wanted to keep in the shot. The manual brush worked well enough in that instance.
Only used it with sunny daylight pictures. Not sure how it would do with nighttime photos.
I'm curious about this
Do you remove everyone from a background?
Or just someone who might be looking at the camera in a weird way, etc?
If a pic is taken on a beach in Hawaii, would you remove everyone so it looks like you were there all alone?
Private beach?
To each our own, for sure -- I'm mainly just curious what the guiding principles are here.
I personally wouldn't want to dramatically alter what the actual scene was.
At some point one might as well just "create a photo" and insert any cast of people and backdrop they want
Not anymore!
Now we "remove" those pesky "other people" to create the perfect scene with just the people we want
I thought we couldn't get any more narcissistic, but society continues to prove me wrong
It's a nice companion feeling to the Apple AD where the wife literally is so preoccupied with other things she's forgotten her own husbands birthday ... but she's "saved" by having her phone whip up a "sure to be cherished" digital montage of photos.
Zero effort, zero care about her own spouse ..
Just flat out embarrassing, some of this stuff, from Apple
I would remove the ugly guy who was drunk in the background. Only one ugly guy is allowed in the photo and that would be me.
Nothing, as I bought my devices in China so I can’t do a damn thing.
However, if I am once granted the ability to do this, I would do it regarding anyone who draws attention away from the subject of the photo.
Right. It’s narcissistic to want to stage a photo in any way and then adapt the picture to reflect your intended, but frustrated, efforts. Get a grip.
According to some here you’re a narcissist for wanting that wire gone. However, I think the photo would obviously be better without it.
You chose your words wisely 🙂. That’s still quite bad and I would be very uncomfortable having that in my photo collection.
To each their own on how they want their photos to ultimately look and what they represent to them.
I don’t mind people in the background of my pictures when they give context to where I am: people walking in the background of a busy medieval street of Rhodes, people sitting in the stands of the Ephesus Great Theatre while I pretend I’m in Gladiator “are you entertained?!!”, or the busy Athens Acropolis area.
However, if I’m taking a special solo shot or a shot with my son that some tourist just couldn’t wait 2 more seconds to let us have, I welcome this feature to remove them. I’m pretty sure they couldn’t care less if I did and most likely have no idea who I am.
I don’t mind people in the background of my pictures when they give context to where I am: people walking in the background of a busy medieval street of Rhodes, people sitting in the stands of the Ephesus Great Theatre while I pretend I’m in Gladiator “are you entertained?!!”, or the busy Athens Acropolis area.
However, if I’m taking a special solo shot or a shot with my son that some tourist just couldn’t wait 2 more seconds to let us have, I welcome this feature to remove them. I’m pretty sure they couldn’t care less if I did and most likely have no idea who I am.
What squared notifications on the Lock Screen? I’m not seeing it on my iPhone 16 Pro
One day someone will ask why the resort or town was deserted 😂
Always whine party here! it is a nice new tool, yes you can do that since years, for example Pixelmator has been one of the first worldwide. photos is great for editing, yeah they adding those things late to the party but it is cool!
This. 👆
The best photo I ever took in the medieval streets of Rhodes was at 1:00am, back before having kids.🤣
I agree with you, the Safety Filter is a huge et down. But I don't think it has anything to do with nudity. I think it has do with removing people in general.
I tired to removed a blemish on my face but Safety Filter was applied. Safety Filter was also applied when I tried to removed a person who was standing behind the subject but looking at the camera, this is on a street shot where everyone fully clothed.
This tool is unuable as it is. I will stick with Lightroom.