Apple to Overhaul Photos App With New AI Tools in iOS 27 [Report]

Apple is planning a major overhaul of its built-in photo editing tools for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, with a new set of AI-powered features tied to Apple Intelligence.



According to Bloomberg, the Photos editing interface will gain a new "Apple Intelligence Tools" section. It's expected to include the existing Clean Up feature along with three new tools: Extend, Enhance, and Reframe. The features use AI models to process edits, with results typically appearing in seconds.


Extend will let users generate imagery beyond the original borders of a photo by expanding the edges of an image, prompting the system to fill in surrounding scenery. Enhance offers a one-tap improvement to lighting, color, and overall image quality without manual adjustments. Reframe focuses on spatial photos captured for Vision Pro, letting users shift perspective after the shot to highlight different angles.

Sources say Extend and Reframe are still facing reliability issues during internal testing. Depending on how quickly the underlying models improve, Apple could scale back or delay the tools ahead of release. Engineers are also refining the existing Clean Up feature, which has drawn criticism for leaving artifacts, blurring textures, or generating inaccurate details when removing objects.

The update is part of a broader software push this year. Apple is prioritizing underlying stability and battery life improvements following last year's visual overhaul. At the same time, the company is also expected to bring changes to Siri, including a standalone chatbot-style interface, support for handling multiple commands at once, and the ability to integrate third-party AI assistants.

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