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Hands-On Mac 166: Apple's New AI Clean Up Tool

Hands-On Mac 166: Apple's New AI Clean Up Tool

Update: 2025-01-23
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In this episode, Mikah Sargent explores Apple's new Clean Up feature, part of the Apple Intelligence suite, which aims to remove distractions from photos.


- Clean Up is a new feature in macOS Sequoia's Photos app that uses on-device machine learning to remove unwanted objects from images

- To use Clean Up, enter edit mode, select the Clean Up tab, and either click, brush, or circle the object to remove

- Mikah tests Clean Up on a photo of a puppy with a toy in the background; it successfully removes the toy but loses some pillow texture

- On a building photo, Clean Up struggles to properly remove a person, distorting the stairs

- Clean Up has difficulty fully removing an iPhone and keyboard from a spatial photo of Leo Laporte

- Apple's on-device approach to machine learning, driven by privacy, currently falls short of Google's server-side Magic Eraser feature

- Clean Up is available on all Apple devices that support Apple Intelligence features, including iOS and iPadOS


Host: Mikah Sargent


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