Photo Enhancements

Google beat Apple to the punch by about three years, but iPhone users will be happy to know they’ll no longer need to turn to Google Photos to erase background objects from their images. iOS 18 introduces a new “Clean Up” feature that’s basically the same thing built into the photos app.

However, that’s not all that Apple Intelligence will bring to the photos app experience. It will now be possible to enhance pictures with natural language requests, making it easier to get the results you want without fussing with individual editing tools. Memory movies can also be created using natural language, right down to the type of music that accompanies the resulting slideshow.

Search is also being improved, allowing users to find photos based on many more details and also search in videos, with results that take them right to the part of the video they’re looking for.