Report: 3 new AI-powered photo editing features are coming to iPhones
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In summary:
- Macworld reports that Apple’s iOS 27 will introduce three new AI-powered photo editing features: extend, enhance and crop, joining the existing cleanup tool.
- These tools will allow users to zoom out and add details beyond photo frames, enhance color and lighting, and change perspectives on spatial images.
- Internal testing shows inconsistent results for the Extend and Reframe features, which could delay their release despite Apple’s significant investment in AI in photo editing.
A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman gives us an idea of what to expect from iOS 27’s photo editing features. Apple is planning a major overhaul of the photo editing experience, relying heavily on AI for three major new features: extend, enhance, and crop. These three tools will be brought together with the existing Clean Up tool in a new “Apple Intelligence Tools” section of the Photos app.
According to the report, here’s what to expect from the new features:
Extend: Users will be able to “zoom in” on an existing photo, adding details beyond the original frame. This type of generative fill/expansion functionality is quite common.
Improve: You will be able to improve the color, lighting and overall quality of the image using AI.
Crop: When taking spatial photos, this new feature will allow you to change perspective to produce a still image from a different angle.
Gurman notes that internal testing of the features hasn’t gone smoothly. In particular, the Expand and Crop tools produce inconsistent results, which may therefore be delayed. Getting good, reliable results is already the biggest problem with Apple’s only current AI-based tool, To cleanso introducing more AI tools that don’t work well most of the time won’t improve Apple’s reputation.
In his report, Gurman reminds us that OS 27 updates focus on two main areas: Apple Intelligence features, including the long-awaited new Siri, and a concerted effort to clean up the codebase to improve performance and battery life while reducing bugs. Apple is expected to preview the new operating system during the WWDC keynote on June 8.
