Apple is embarking on its own AI revolution with the broad release of Apple Intelligence courtesy of the official iOS 18.1 release this week. that update includes a feature called Clean Up with the Photos app, which uses AI to intelligently analyze photos and remove unwanted subjects from them — all intuitively and with ease. My colleague Richard Priday was impressed by Clean Up's performance when he tested it out.
This ability to remove objects from photos is nothing new, as some of the best phones with the Google Photos app can tap into Google’s version called Magic Eraser. I’ve come to lean on Magic Eraser for the last several years, as that feature first arrived with the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro and has seen several updates since.
