Kamal Ghorui
Apple is bringing a suite of AI-powered photo editing tools to iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 this fall, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The new features—Extend, Enhance, and Reframe—will join the existing Clean Up tool in a dedicated “Apple Intelligence Tools” section inside the Photos app editor.Each tool handles something different. Extend generates new image content beyond the original frame, letting you expand a photo’s edges with a pinch gesture. Enhance automatically adjusts color, lighting, and overall image quality. Reframe is built for spatial photos—the 3D format used with Apple Vision Pro—and lets you shift a shot’s perspective after it’s already been taken. All processing happens on-device and takes just a few seconds.
Google and Samsung have been doing this for years
Google has offered Magic Eraser, Photo Unblur, and generative image expansion on Pixel devices for years now. Samsung, meanwhile, has leaned heavily on AI editing to differentiate its Galaxy lineup even when the cameras themselves barely change. Photoshop has had photo extension for nearly three years. Apple, by comparison, still only has Clean Up—and that tool has struggled since launch, frequently producing distorted fills where a removed object used to be.These new tools aren’t guaranteed to arrive complete. Extend and Reframe have reportedly been unreliable in development, meaning both could be delayed or quietly scaled back before iOS 27 ships. That’s not an unfamiliar pattern: Apple Intelligence features have had a habit of missing their original windows. Apple has until its typical September release to get things working, but the margin for another stumble is getting thin.iOS 27 will be previewed at the WWDC 2026 keynote on June 8.
