Apple's Craig Federighi explains Apple's approach to photo editing and why "even the ability to remove a water bottle led to lots of debates internally."

Apple is concerned AI photos may affect trust. Apple’s iOS 18.1, set to release soon, introduces a new feature called “Clean Up.” This tool allows users to remove unwanted o

Apple Intelligence (at least for now) doesn’t allow users to add AI-generated manipulations to images like competing services do. Any images that have been edited using the new object removal feature will also be tagged as “Modified with Clean Up” in the Photos app and embedded with metadata to flag that they have been altered.

At a time when you can ask AI to modify an existing photo in almost any way you please, or even ask it to generate a completely artificial image, can we ever trust photos again? Apple is working to address the issue in two ways,