Zooming in on an image while in Clean Up is a little fiddly ... my photo of Milan Central Station was spoiled by the tram lines above the road. But with some effort, I was able to remove them ...

Here’s how it works. But now that Apple has finally entered this arena, I want to see for myself if Apple Intelligence can legitimately do a better job of cleaning up my photos than Magic Eraser.

When you open up a photo in Photos and tap edit, aka the three lines at the bottom, you’ll see a new “Clean Up” icon with ... the future custom emojis and image playground functionality ...

The new Clean Up tool in Photos on iOS 18 lets users select objects within an image, and remove them through Apple's on-device AI software. In the Photos app, users can select an image and circle ...