'Sketch' Style Option Still Coming to Image Playground [Updated]

[MacRumors]

When Image Playground was first introduced in June as one of the key Apple Intelligence features, Apple said that it would generate images in three styles: animation, illustration, and sketch.

The version of Image Playground available in the iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 betas only offers animation and illustration as style options, but Apple is planning to add the sketch style to Image Playground in the future.

As of right now, sketch can be used as an option in Image Wand in the developer and public betas of iOS 18.2, but it does not appear that it is ready for Image Playground just yet. Image Wand is the feature that allows users to add a drawing to written notes, either by sketching out an idea or referencing words in the note.

Apple did recently remove sketch from the Image Playground app description, but that's just because it's not yet in the Image Playground app.

Sketch is described as a "highly detailed and academic" style that "produces gorgeous drawings on stark backgrounds." It is distinct from the illustration style that has strong outlines, bold colors, and simple shapes, and the animation style that has a "whimsical, 3D cartoon look."

Image Playground and Image Wand will be released to the public in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 in December.

Update: This article has been updated to clarify that the sketch style has not been removed entirely and that it will be coming to Image Playground at a later time. The prior version of this article suggested that sketch had been entirely removed.

Article Link: 'Sketch' Style Option Still Coming to Image Playground [Updated]

 

[whosjjgtho]

Sketch option is available with Image Wand

 

[PowerButton]

Looks like their timeline is starting the scare them. Promise too much, so late to the game…

 

[Prof.]

I'm suing

 

[segfaultdotorg]

Alexa, how do I file a class action lawsuit?

 

[grantishere]

Apple stocks tomorrow at 9 AM: 📉📉📉

 

[antiprotest]

Why does tech writing use "drop" with opposite meanings? It can mean either cancel or release. Apple drops AirPower (cancel). Apple drops new iPad Pros (release). I remember it didn't use to be this way...say, 20 years ago? Before that, it might be used in music, as in so-and-so just dropped a new single.

EDIT: Oh, at least ChatGPT thinks I am right: "This usage likely started in the hip-hop world, where "dropping a new track" had the energetic connotation of unleashing it onto the world. In tech, this dual meaning has gradually caught on, especially as tech companies and media increasingly adopt pop culture language."

EDIT 2: I have seen tech writing use "drop" and "release" to mean "announced" too. Apple "drops" XYZ, meaning they announced it today and will be available in 4 to 6 months. That's also annoying.

 

[DanteHicks79]

Why does tech writing use "drop" with opposite meanings? It can mean either cancel or release. Apple drops AirPower. Apple drops new iPad Pros. I remember it didn't use to be this way...say, 20 years ago? Before that, it might be used in music, as in so-and-so just dropped a new single.

EDIT: Oh, at least ChatGPT thinks I am right: "This usage likely started in the hip-hop world, where "dropping a new track" had the energetic connotation of unleashing it onto the world. In tech, this dual meaning has gradually caught on, especially as tech companies and media increasingly adopt pop culture language."

It's just like when MacRumors uses "record low prices" for devices that just came out less than six months ago. It's all cheap marketing buzz words.

It's also how like ANY news about anything now is "breaking" news, which was a concept that got widely adopted when news networks went 24/7.

 

[Chungry]

Probably a wise choice given the rather uneven results people are getting with the half-baked “AI” features available now

 

[sw1tcher]

The version of Image Playground available in the iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 betas only offers animation and illustration as style options, leaving us wondering if sketch might be added a later time.

It looks like the answer might be no, as Apple has removed Sketch from the Image Playground app description. Image Playground used to list three styles as design options, but it was updated to two, and the line about Sketch was removed.

This is what happens when you spend billions on a car. Gotta cut costs somewhere to make up for it.

 

[Chungry]

This is what happens when you spend billions on a car. Gotta cut costs somewhere to make up for it.

Decades from now there will be business classes teaching about this boondoggle

 

[bLackjackj]

Strange, considering that Sketch is available with stickers. Wasn't the iPhone "built for AI",..that's what the Apple Marketing team told us? 🤦‍♂️

 

[artifex]

Apple stocks tomorrow at 9 AM: 📉📉📉

Nah. But wait until the threatened tariffs kick in.

 

[Rychiar]

Sketchy rumors

 

[Le0M]

A shame. That's the style I like the most!

 

[sw1tcher]

Why does tech writing use "drop" with opposite meanings? It can mean either cancel or release. Apple drops AirPower (cancel). Apple drops new iPad Pros (release). I remember it didn't use to be this way...say, 20 years ago? Before that, it might be used in music, as in so-and-so just dropped a new single.

EDIT: Oh, at least ChatGPT thinks I am right: "This usage likely started in the hip-hop world, where "dropping a new track" had the energetic connotation of unleashing it onto the world. In tech, this dual meaning has gradually caught on, especially as tech companies and media increasingly adopt pop culture language."

EDIT 2: I have seen tech writing use "drop" and "release" to mean "announced" too. Apple "drops" XYZ, meaning they announced it today and will be available in 4 to 6 months. That's also annoying.

"Drop" meaning release has been used for longer than 20 years. As you noted there's the music usage where a new track or album gets released (dropped). There's also the sneaker world where new shoes gets dropped (released). Back when pay telephones were in use there was a slogan "Drop (put in/release) a dime, stop a crime" that was used back in the 1980s by the Portsmouth Crime Line. And what about in games where an item gets dropped (released) after you kill a monster?

As for "drop" meaning cancelled, that's been in use for decades too, such as a band getting dropped (cancelled) from the tour line up, or the band/artist getting dropped (cancelled) by their label.

 

[ChrisA]

I have little use for cartoonish images but I would like to find an AI-based drawing app. I can do some kinds of engineering but no forms of drawing. I am particularly untalented at technical illustration. So it would be good to have an app where I draw diagrams with shaky lines and poor handwriting and then the AI redraws it with a more professional look.

For example, the other day I tried to draw a graph with an exponential curve, and part of the curve was highlighted and labeled "range where control is possible". If I do this with an Apple Pencil it looks really bad. So today I would need to somehow use a spreadsheet to plot the equations of the curve and a pair of limiting lines. That is WAY too much work just to make a simple note.

I know of diagramming apps. But they are also very slow to use. I need to make lines with the line tool and constrain them to 90 degrees then find the curve tool and then cut the curve into segments and then change the color and thickness of a segment and then grab the text tool and so on. MUCH better if AI transforms my quick sketch to something better.

I think there is a market for AI-based technical drawings other than cartoons.

 

[3304614]

Outrageous!!! I had no clue about this feature until this very moment… but now I’m absolutely furious about its removal!!!

Tim Apple!!! You have one… hundred… more chances until I stop buying your products! You have officially been put on notice!

 

[TwoBytes]

Are there any example pictures of what sketch does?

 

[TravelsInBlue]

All of the Apple Intelligence features have been less than underwhelming, venturing into terrible territory. I don’t need summaries for notifications that are already succinct enough, generative AI has a place but making images is a gimmick and I don’t need AI to write a text out for me.


Even more broadly with the iPhone 16 PM, I can’t stand the camera control button as where it is it’s too easy to accidentally press since that’s where the phone is gripped from, and coming from the 13 PM I really don’t like the action button.
It feels like throwing stuff at the wall because they’re out of ideas.

 

[revfife]

Apple under Cook is the best at over promising and under delivering.

Hardware and Software.

Apple Intelligence looks and feels like they have absolutely no clue how AI works.

 

[nutriousmitten]

Not going to get too worked up over this. It, and a lot these AI things are, answers to questions nobody has asked.

Tried once or twice to show off to friends, then relegated and buried.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

I'm suing

Surely the EU something something something…

 

[SoldOnApple]

Wish it could generate vector images, with proper layers to assist with keyframe animation. I guess the latest AI features in Illustrator kind of allows this, need to play around with it more.

 

[mansplains]

Image Playground’s advantage lies in its on-device operation. Other than this, it’s been pretty dookie so far. I’m astounded at how far behind the results are, as someone who was eager to use. Genmoji dachshunds are the only reason I haven’t deleted the app.