Apple’s still slowly trickling down all of the Apple Intelligence features the company first unveiled at WWDC 2024 earlier in the year, but the iOS 18.2 public beta finally unlocks Image Playground. I only needed to wait a short while after requesting early access to the iPhone’s new image generator, but it comes after Google’s Pixel Studio for its new Pixel 9 phones.
I know very well how helpful the best AI image generators are, so I wanted to test how the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Pixel 9 Pro XL handle the same prompts. There are other differences between them, like how Image Playground can generate images based on photos of yourself or other people, but for this comparison, I’m simply going to judge them based on how accurate they are with the prompts I give them.
