How to use Clean Up in iOS 18 Photos to remove distractions
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The new Clean Up tool comes to the Photos app. Last updated 12 hours ago. Apple's new Clean Up tool is a great use of Apple Intelligence that can enhance your photos without excessive editing. Here's how it works. Clean Up is part of Apple Intelligence as, unlike with some repair tools, it uses generative AI. The AI analyzes the photo to do its best to fill in or remove the selected area.
We have found it to be one of the most useful Apple Intelligence features in our testing so far. To use the Clean Up tool, open the Photos app and select an image you want to edit. At the bottom, you'll see the new Clean Up tool icon shaped like an eraser.
The first time you launch the Clean Up tool it will need to download the AI model to your device. The Clean Up tool does everything on-device and doesn't send anything to the servers. This keeps everything private and secure though there could be tradeoffs compared to cloud computing in terms of quality with complex scenes.
pic.twitter.com/QlhcHGoL4F. Once selected, it will automatically analyze your photo for errant objects that it believes could be removed to improve the photo. They will highlight in a swirl of bright colors so they're easy to see. Tap any of those objects and the will quickly be removed. We tried this with cars, people, and any other objects so far.
Most of the time it did a great job. But, if we tried to remove too large of an object with a busy background it would get confused and muddled. Apple's on-device processing is way better than Google's, but the cloud-based option is far more capable with the power of remote servers.
