Image Playground

Apple will also be leveraging its generative Apple Intelligence to help you create unique images through a new feature it’s calling “Image Playground.” This will be built into Apple’s key apps like Messages, Mail, and Notes, but also available as a standalone app for those who want to generate images to save and share elsewhere.

With Image Playground, you’ll be able to combine several ideas to generate an image. These can be abstract concepts like “beach” and “dinner party” or even include specific contacts to create AI-generated images that feature appropriately caricatured depictions of them. Naturally, Apple won’t use this to generate photorealistic images of people; the examples shown were all cartoon-like renders.

The technology behind Image Playground also extends to a new “Image Wand” feature in Apple Notes that will make it even easier to generate a high-quality image from an existing drawing or even the context of the note itself. By circling either a hand-drawn sketch or a blank space, Apple Intelligence will use the image generation features to provide an appropriate illustration of the concept.