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iOS 27 to Add New Apple Intelligence Photo Editing Tools

I use third party "photo" software from Adobe. Started with Photoshop v1.3 on 3.5" floppies on my IIfx. I have had to pay to play in the Apple world since day one.

Folks, Apple makes great hardware, but marginal software which includes both apps and operating systems.

Fortunately, many of the third party commercial software folks have excellent products and that is why they are still in business. I have also used the BareBones edit BBEdit program for nearly thirty years.

Reading all of the posts about Apple's AI efforts for all these years, I think it will be a bloated and overloaded crash site at the end of a too long runway.

Most folks that I know are unwilling to pay for dysfunctional software. That is why Apple has not charged for the operating system in decades. To sell something, it has to be really operational. Including it in the price of the computer gives the user no way to financially complain.
 
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All I care is a toggle to permanently turn off all AI features (already exists to some extent) AND a button to instantly purge the downloaded models/learning data to free up space.
 
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Online dating users be like

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Honestly all I want is just a stable update and reliable performance + battery. No Ai stuff or fancy "design's which are unusable or drain your battery faster than work drains my will to live.
 
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MacRumors said:
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.
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“Clean Up has issues on tasks that are, decidedly, not related to Clean Up.” 🙂 No one is taking a picture of a part of a flower and hoping that ‘Clean Up’ will make up a flower from part of an image of a flower with a plate in front of it! LOL
 
dominiongamma said:
Amazing Google and other apps had this stuff for awhile now and does do the job probably a lot better then Apple ever will
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Folks.... Apple does everything on device. Editing your photo's on your device does not use the energy equivalent of a roadtrip with a diesel car. Plus your photo stays on your device and is not taken apart and absorbed by a data hungry LLM...
 
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That was a Snapseed feature for like… 10 years already!? C’mon Apple you can’t play underdog forever
 
TVreporter said:
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!)
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Depends on the photo format. If JPEG - it will open fully edited on anything capable of opening jpeg. If format is HEIF (high efficiency) - it won’t open on anything older than Mac OS Mojave (10.14) I think
 
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turbineseaplane said:
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.
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The one potentially good use for this I could see are cases where you have a nice image but notice after the group photo (or whatever - something not easy to set up again), that the image has a noticeable tilt to it.

If the image was framed fairly close to the people, when you rotate it you can end up with triangular slivers of nothingness on one or more edges, and last time I checked (quite a while ago), the editor in the Photos app wouldn't allow you to stop there - it would force the crop/rotate frame down smaller into parts of the pic that exist - even if the missing sliver is, say, plain blue sky - chopping off bits of people's heads or such, in the process.

I've had a couple times where I've taken such an image, dropped it into a full-fledged image editor, matted it into the middle of a larger layer that's been filled with the missing background color (use an eyedropper to grab the adjacent sky blue), so that I could then rotate and crop it properly.

If their AI "make up new stuff on the edges" thing can just fill in that missing bit of blue sky, thus letting me rotate the image without going out to an external editor, that would be genuinely useful.
 
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CarlJ said:
The one potentially good use for this I could see are cases where you have a nice image but notice after the group photo (or whatever - something not easy to set up again), that the image has a noticeable tilt to it.

If the image was framed fairly close to the people, when you rotate it you can end up with triangular slivers of nothingness on one or more edges, and last time I checked (quite a while ago), the editor in the Photos app wouldn't allow you to stop there - it would force the crop/rotate frame down smaller into parts of the pic that exist, even if the missing sliver is, say, plain blue sky.

I've had a couple times where I've taken such an image, dropped it into a full-fledged image editor, matted it into the middle of a larger layer that's been filled with the missing background color (use an eyedropper to grab the adjacent sky blue), so that I could then rotate and crop it properly.
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A good example of a use case, thank you!
 
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