iOS 27 to Add New Apple Intelligence Photo Editing Tools

[MacRumors]

Apple will add new Apple Intelligence photo editing tools to the Photos app in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, reports Bloomberg.

On-device Apple Intelligence will be able to make subtle changes to image quality, positioning, and focus, with the new capabilities joining Clean Up, the sole AI editing feature that Apple has released to date.

The Photos app in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will have an Apple Intelligence Tools section when editing an image. Options will include Extend, Enhance, and Reframe.

• Extend - Extend generates additional image content beyond the original frame of the photo, filling in scenery when changing the crop of an image. This tool will support expanding the edges of an image with zoom gestures.
• Enhance - Uses AI to automatically tweak color, lighting, and other image parameters, similar to how the auto editing feature works now.
• Reframe - When used with spatial photos, Reframe will let users change the perspective of an image after it's captured.

Apple apparently hasn't gotten the tools working perfectly, so Extend and Reframe could be delayed or scaled back. Clean Up, Apple's existing AI tool, still has issues even a year and a half after launching. It is able to remove unwanted objects from an image, but it is not as good at filling in missing information as other AI tools from smartphone makers like Samsung and Google.

More on the features coming in iOS 27, including Siri updates, can be found in our iOS 27 roundup. iOS 27 will be previewed at the WWDC 2026 keynote that's set to take place on June 8, 2026.

Article Link: iOS 27 to Add New Apple Intelligence Photo Editing Tools

 

[TheBeverage]

Extending an image with gen AI feels weird... other than that these seem fine. Enhance will probably be exactly how auto editing works now, just relabeled.

 

[boswald]

Apple apparently hasn't gotten the tools working perfectly, so Extend and Reframe could be delayed or scaled back. Clean Up, Apple's existing AI tool, still has issues even a year and a half after launching. It is able to remove unwanted objects from an image, but it is not as good at filling in missing information as other AI tools from smartphone makers like Samsung and Google.

That's so sad to read after all this time and promises.

 

[michsu]

Delay again.. like always.. announce and don’t do it properly.. I’m looking at my first foldable and looking at Samsung Fold 8. It is the only one which is partnering with Tmobile Satellite V2 Starlink to offer many apps over satellite, way better than Apple.

 

[I7guy]

I’d like to erase and fill in with Apple Intelligence for photos.

 

[monty-ny]

Or just use Google Photos

 

[michsu]

They couldn’t erase and recreate Siri with Apple Intelligence, what makes you think they can do it with regular photos? They should extend, enhance and reframe Siri.

 

[FoxyKaye]

Oh god, I hope they bring back Elvis! </Independence Day>

 

[turbineseaplane]

Extend - Extend generates additional image content beyond the original frame of the photo, filling in scenery when changing the crop of an image. This tool will support expanding the edges of an image with zoom gestures.

Hmm.
Good for marketing content creation I guess?

I'm not sure I'd want it to "make up new stuff on the edges" of my travel and family photos.
That would be super weird actually.

Apple apparently hasn't gotten the tools working perfectly, so Extend and Reframe could be delayed or scaled back.

Let's maybe just "not do this one", yah?

 

[OliOliOliOli]

I only believe what I see.…

 

[DocMultimedia]

It's crazy how these features are already in many other apps. Why can't Apple do anything at all lately?

 

[Tyler O'Bannon]

SPOILER: they’re delayed until 2032

 

[Wx_Man]

Will these tools be available, if they ever show up, without a subscription? Why can’t Apple just use Claude to vibe code this? Supposedly that’s what they use to run things day to day inside Apple while they perfect the Apple skinned version of Gemini 3.1 as a replacement for Apple Intelligence and Siri.

 

[contacos]

Extending an image with gen AI feels weird... other than that these seem fine. Enhance will probably be exactly how auto editing works now, just relabeled.

I use this every day in Canva when Speakers or their assistant for one of our Summits or Conferences sends the worst portrait photo and I need to get them all into the same size without zooming all on their face

 

[hieranonymous]

Apple still hasn’t got extend and reframe working correctly? No-name third-party apps have been doing this for years. How difficult can it be?

 

[dominiongamma]

Amazing Google and other apps had this stuff for awhile now and does do the job probably a lot better then Apple ever will

 

[Astuces iOS]

NO BODY ASKED @ 

Photos app users don't care about that, can you please add more tools in Pixelmator pro PLEASE DAMN

 

[turbineseaplane]

Will these tools be available, if they ever show up, without a subscription? Why can’t Apple just use Claude to vibe code this? Supposedly that’s what they use to run things day to day inside Apple while they perfect the Apple skinned version of Gemini 3.1 as a replacement for Apple Intelligence and Siri.

I think they already did that.

It's called "Tahoe"

 

[TVreporter]

I’m curious what happens if I edit a photo with this on my phone, save to iCloud but reopen on my Mac using an older OS without AI.

Will the edits carryover? Or does Tim want me to buy a new Mac (of course he does!)

 

[PixelPanics]

Thanks, I dont want this.

 

[PixelPanics]

I’m curious what happens if I edit a photo with this on my phone, save to iCloud but reopen on my Mac using an older OS without AI.

Will the edits carryover? Or does Tim want me to buy a new Mac (of course he does!)

Why wouldn't it show on other device? It'll be an image file. You might not be able to tweak those settings on older device, but the files will look as theyre supposed to be.

 

[JPack]

Welcome to 2024, Apple.

 

[mattopotamus]

Extending an image with gen AI feels weird... other than that these seem fine. Enhance will probably be exactly how auto editing works now, just relabeled.

Would be interesting to take a regular photo and a pano and compare how it fills in to match the pano.

 

[thelion7]

Apple will add new Apple Intelligence photo editing tools to the Photos app in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, reports Bloomberg.

On-device Apple Intelligence will be able to make subtle changes to image quality, positioning, and focus, with the new capabilities joining Clean Up, the sole AI editing feature that Apple has released to date.

The Photos app in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will have an Apple Intelligence Tools section when editing an image. Options will include Extend, Enhance, and Reframe.

• Extend - Extend generates additional image content beyond the original frame of the photo, filling in scenery when changing the crop of an image. This tool will support expanding the edges of an image with zoom gestures.
  
• Enhance - Uses AI to automatically tweak color, lighting, and other image parameters, similar to how the auto editing feature works now.
  
• Reframe - When used with spatial photos, Reframe will let users change the perspective of an image after it's captured.

Apple apparently hasn't gotten the tools working perfectly, so Extend and Reframe could be delayed or scaled back. Clean Up, Apple's existing AI tool, still has issues even a year and a half after launching. It is able to remove unwanted objects from an image, but it is not as good at filling in missing information as other AI tools from smartphone makers like Samsung and Google.

More on the features coming in iOS 27, including Siri updates, can be found in our iOS 27 roundup. iOS 27 will be previewed at the WWDC 2026 keynote that's set to take place on June 8, 2026.

Article Link: iOS 27 to Add New Apple Intelligence Photo Editing Tools

In my opinion they should just drop everything, deliver Siri 2.0 and optimise the OS.

 

[ikir]

Apple will add new Apple Intelligence photo editing tools to the Photos app in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, reports Bloomberg.

On-device Apple Intelligence will be able to make subtle changes to image quality, positioning, and focus, with the new capabilities joining Clean Up, the sole AI editing feature that Apple has released to date.

The Photos app in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will have an Apple Intelligence Tools section when editing an image. Options will include Extend, Enhance, and Reframe.

• Extend - Extend generates additional image content beyond the original frame of the photo, filling in scenery when changing the crop of an image. This tool will support expanding the edges of an image with zoom gestures.
  
• Enhance - Uses AI to automatically tweak color, lighting, and other image parameters, similar to how the auto editing feature works now.
  
• Reframe - When used with spatial photos, Reframe will let users change the perspective of an image after it's captured.

Apple apparently hasn't gotten the tools working perfectly, so Extend and Reframe could be delayed or scaled back. Clean Up, Apple's existing AI tool, still has issues even a year and a half after launching. It is able to remove unwanted objects from an image, but it is not as good at filling in missing information as other AI tools from smartphone makers like Samsung and Google.

More on the features coming in iOS 27, including Siri updates, can be found in our iOS 27 roundup. iOS 27 will be previewed at the WWDC 2026 keynote that's set to take place on June 8, 2026.

Article Link: iOS 27 to Add New Apple Intelligence Photo Editing Tools

CleanUP is pretty handy in some situation and results are good usually.