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The tools use on-device spatial and generative image models
Positive users praise Apple Intelligence's new Photos tools like Reframe, Extend and smarter Clean Up as practical enhancements and a genius idea, while some call the features horrible or part of Apple's lost direction.

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@verge That is ok if they insure the Photo Metadata contains everything we need to verify photos.

@BenGeskin Imagine doing this for your dick pic

@BenGeskin now shitty photographers can add AI blur and detail loss to their shitty photos instead of just learning rule of thirds

@BenGeskin I keep getting this error when using any new photos features. iPhone 17 btw😔

@BenGeskin No way.. How did Apple beat Pixel to this?

@BenGeskin Photos are all now the ship of Theseus.

@BenGeskin What even is the point of taking pictures nowadays

@BenGeskin This is not a real photo anymore. Memories will be fake

@BenGeskin They seem to be generating a splat using their ml-sharp model then using your user orientation as input to generate anything missing from the splat at your new view, very cool use of a splat.

@neilcybart @BenGeskin Wow, shocked to hear that. I imagine this pushes what you find acceptable to the limits though? I feel like any further than this and it'd be considered too much editing and "regeneration" of a person and the subtle details would start to be off.

@ijustine Apple WWDC 90% is AI + age restrictions and 10% rolling back terrible design decisions with Tahoe. What a joke. Falloff.

@BenGeskin Are these camera features supported on iPhone 16 pro max?

@ijustine https://medium.com/@tehnologijaviews/apple-just-rewrote-the-rulebook-for-voice-assistants-at-wwdc-2026-and-siri-will-never-be-the-same-a6482addd18e

@BenGeskin Oh god it’s horrible. Can AI be turned off completely? I wanted to update to iPhone 18 this Fall but if it’s not possible, I’ll stick to my iPhone 13

@BenGeskin Why? Is it hard to take a photo on the place in the right frame?

@ijustine So, this is what my brain was signaling to me about that image 😂🤍

@BenGeskin I’ve been enjoying playing around with it. Crashing more often than not thought atm.

@TechCrunch Spatial Reframing on-device means photo quality is now chip-dependent. Apple just made matching impossible without matching the silicon. That's the moat.

@ijustine I love that the features are just photo enhancements and not “add a fucking whale to the background”