iOS 18.1 Beta 3 Counts Apple Intelligence Clean Up Tool

Apple has recently dropped iOS 18.1 beta 3 for developers, which includes a new Apple Intelligence Clean Up tool for compatible devices. With this feature, users can now remove people who are photobombed or other unwanted objects from the image on the Photos app.

How Does Apple Intelligence Clean Up Tool Work?

Similar to Google’s Magic Eraser feature, this Clean Up tool aids in removing a particular object without tarnishing the quality of the photo. Here’s how the tool works in removing an object.

• This tool uses smart detection, which depends on myriads of machine-learning models to identify and separate the particular objects in the photo by determining the edges.
• After recognizing the edges, it drags the specific object and fills the empty space by adding the background, shadows, or reflections.

How to Use the Clean Up Tool to Remove Objects

Here’s the algorithm to use Apple Intelligence’s Clean Up tool on the Photos app to remove an object.

• After updating your iPhone to iOS 18.1 Beta 3, open the Photos app.
• Pick a photo and click on the Edit button.
• Now, you can see a new Clean Up tool with an Eraser icon. Click that option.
• After that, if there’s something obvious that can be removed from the photo, it will be highlighted automatically. Tap the highlighted image to remove it.

• Otherwise, you can manually scribble any object to use the Clean Up tool.
• Finally, the highlighted object will be removed from the photo.

Perks of Apple Intelligence Clean Up Tool

• The Clean Up tool works well on the auto-highlighted objects. This finds depth and calculates the object to fill in the background.
• You can get the best image if there’s a clear and uncluttered background behind the particular object.
• Objects that are small are most likely to be removed easily without image degradation.

Limitations of Apple Intelligence Clean Up Tool

• The images aren’t accurate while removing any object by manually highlighting it.
• Removing any larger object from a cluttered photo will make the photo uncommon.
• You can’t use the Clean Up tool in Live Photos. It turns off Live Photo while editing the image with the Clean Up tool.
• You can’t use the Clean Up tool to remove background from videos on the Photos app.
• Images like screenshots, photos taken from an Android phone, or old photos won’t work well.

Like in the old days, all the Clean Up edits were revertable. If you don’t like the current picture, you can revert the image to the original at any time.

Wrapping Up!

The new Clean Up tool is quite interesting and useful for many users. As this feature is still in the beta version, it has several limitations. Hopefully, in the near future, we can expect more advancements from Apple’s end in the Cleap Up tool.

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