These new features, released with iOS 18.1 developer beta 3, are powered by Apple Intelligence.
The iOS 18 beta running on iPhone 15 Pro.
If you have access to Apple’s IOS 18.1 developer beta, you can now try out Clean Up, a new feature that removes unwanted people, places, and other objects from your photos.
Available in the third beta rolled out on Wednesday, the new photo clean-up tool takes a page from Google’s Magic Eraser by letting you eliminate an unwanted element from a photo just by wiping it away. The editing feature is part of Apple Intelligence, the company’s on-device artificial intelligence (AI) technology that the company is gradually adding to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Clean Up uses AI to analyze an object and its surrounding area. The challenge is to remove the unwanted item and fill that empty area with the adjacent pixels.
Though it sounds great, this type of trickery can be hit or miss. The success depends on the edges around the object. If the outline is distinct and easy to separate, then the odds are good that the results will look seamless.
