The Photos App Has Much Better Editing Tools

Apple Intelligence already brought Clean Up to the Photos app two years ago in iOS 18.1 — a tool that lets you remove unwanted objects from pictures. But iOS 27 enhances that and brings a couple of even more powerful tools you need to try.

Extend is probably the most useful one from the get-go. It lets you expand a picture beyond its original borders, with Apple Intelligence generating whatever needs to fill the new space in the background.

So if you want to make the image a bit larger, or give the subject more background, you can drag the edge of the picture outward and let Extend create additional background around it.

There’s also Spatial Reframing, which lets you change the perspective of a photo to help you find a better frame. So if you take a selfie looking directly at the camera, you can shift the perspective so it looks like it was shot from the side. Apple Intelligence will adjust your eye line and facial alignment to keep the new angle looking natural.

Clean Up has received a big upgrade too. Apple says it can now remove larger objects and produce more realistic results when filling the empty area. 

Of course, AI photo editing tools still aren’t perfect, but they get the job done for casual users who just want a polished photo for social media.