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Philip Michaels

Clean Up is Apple's take on Magic Editor — here's how to use it with Apple Intelligence

Clean Up tool in Photos app running on ios 18.1.

Pixel phones have their Magic Editor, Samsung's Galaxy flagships have their Generative Edit tool, and iPhone users can turn to Clean Up to polish up images in their device's photo library. Or at least iPhone users have access to Clean Up if they're running iOS 18.1 on a phone that supports Apple Intelligence features.

Clean Up is one of the big additions to the generative editing tools available through Apple Intelligence. Like Magic Editor on Android phones, you can use Clean Up to remove unwanted objects or people who've wandered into the frame. It's as easy as tapping or scribbling on the offending person/object, with Clean Up lifting them out of the photo with a flash and smoothing over the background area so that it looks like nothing was ever there.

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