Gary, I had no idea that my Mac could do this. I am new to Mac and IOS software. I am still learning all the benefits of owning a Mac. I love my Mac, but I have learned, that I haven’t even scratched the surface of all that it can do. I enjoy your videos because you are an expert. Peace.
Great video Gary as always. I’ve been playing with this on my Mac and it works wonderfully. Thank you for all of your insights. I was also happy to find out that cleanup is available on my iPhone 13 Pro Max.
I’ve only got a pro model iPad. This works fairly well! I’m a little disappointed there is no brush size adjustment on either iPad or iPhone. However you failed to mention you could simply circle what you want to remove and it still does a decent job at it. 🥳
Hopefully you will use this to remove something like a piece of trash from the grass in a photo of a family member, not to create propaganda to seize the means of production.
@@macmost After watching I was faced with a dilemma: should I purge my niece's former boyfriend from a great family shot that is to be used for a continuous slideshow at my son's wedding? (She will be attending with a new significant other.) Or should I just leave out the picture? I opted for the later even though the removal tool did a remarkable job on a test run
So, here’s something interesting I discovered with my iPhone 16 Pro last Sunday. This was a club day run so I shot pictures like usual. Edited on the iPhone as I do then reviewed them on my iPad (larger display, older eyes) as I do before starting to post to Facebook for me and the club page. The pictures wouldn’t upload, kept having errors. I couldn’t work out why they wouldn’t go up. I had used the new “cleanup” function on 2 photos on my iPhone. The iPad is a few years old but is running iOS 18.1 like the iPhone but not Apple Intelligence. I removed these 2 photos from the post and the iPad pushed them up fine. I grabbed the iPhone off the charger and it added those 2 photos to the uploaded post and also pushed all of the photos to the other page (including the 2 modified) with no issues. I know the Exif data stores the flag for the mod (which I can see on the iPhone) but this doesn’t display on the older iPad. I’m guessing there is something hidden here that upsets Facebook when it cannot be resolved in the image file. Really weird.
It should be mentioned earlier in your video that this feature is only available for iPhones 15 and later. I watched your video (getting quite excited about using this feature) only to find out that this was mentioned near the end.
I wish that you could turn of the idiotic “safety filter” that comes with cleanup on Apple. I have a bunch of photos that for some reason Apple decides contain nudity and if you try and use the feature it simply replaces the item to be removed with a huge pixelated mess. It’s annoying and I don’t need Apple trying to censor my images. In one picture there is part of a chair on one side. The cleanup function pixelates the chair…
Is there a way to download photos and keep them in a format that can be used to find them? I have 15 year old photo’s and I want to declutter my photos and music.
Do you mean export them from the Photos library so they are just individual files? Once you do that, they would just be files and not part of a library, so you lose all of the useful features that are meant for organizing and finding them. But you can always flip through the files in a folder. So it depends on what you want and how many there are, etc.
Works pretty well, but when you do faces or some photos it tries to overthink what you are doing and does some sort of safety filter and doesn’t work. And you cannot turn off the safety filter.
How about eliminating duplicates when the duplicate functionality in Photos or even Duplicate cleaner Apps don't work. I have photos with the same file name IMG_1234.JPG which have the higher file size and IMG_1234.jpg with like 50KB. No tools have been able to clean these. Hope you can help. Thanks
How is this not cloning? Or is it cloning with some of the steps built in, like a shortcut? (I had a background photo on my PC at work of a horse with hobble rope on his foot. I spent one lunch break freeing the poor animal with the clone tool. It took longer than it took you to remove the shadow and pole but the result was the same.)
Often the result will be the same. But this actually uses AI, so often it will "make up" what is in that area based on the surrounding area. Cloning will actually take the surrounding area and use parts of it there.
I'm in a weird spot. My Mac and iPad both supports Apple Intelligence, but my iPhone 13 Pro does not. Which means I can "Clean Up" on my iPad and Mac, just not the phone lol.
It's OK, but not great - it's like a badly used cloning tool, particularly in complex areas. The repair tool in apps like Photomator or Pixelmator is far superior.
Yes, a dedicated graphics too like that will always offer more options. But this is useful for those that don't have a tool like that or the skills to use it.
I wanted to delete someone behind my daughter and it totally smudged out her adjacent face so it’s not perfect, more like a Beta program. If you have a singular cloud in a blue sky it’s fine. Otherwise use Capture one or photoshop.
Awesome video, thanks!
Hey Gary: I love it when you do videos about the Photos app. I play in that app every day, so your demonstrations are fantastic.
Well done!
Gary, I had no idea that my Mac could do this. I am new to Mac and IOS software. I am still learning all the benefits of owning a Mac. I love my Mac, but I have learned, that I haven’t even scratched the surface of all that it can do. I enjoy your videos because you are an expert. Peace.
Great video Gary as always. I’ve been playing with this on my Mac and it works wonderfully. Thank you for all of your insights. I was also happy to find out that cleanup is available on my iPhone 13 Pro Max.
I’ve only got a pro model iPad. This works fairly well! I’m a little disappointed there is no brush size adjustment on either iPad or iPhone. However you failed to mention you could simply circle what you want to remove and it still does a decent job at it. 🥳
That's pretty cool. I used Aperture for years and I'm finding out I really don't miss it all that much. Photos covers most of what it could do.
Always quality videos Gary, Thank You for your hard work behind the scenes. BTW, today you look like a letter carrier I use to know....LOL 👍
Going more for Mr. Rogers than Mr. McFeely... 😀
@@macmost I like your humor, let it shine...
How fun! A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️
Awesome Gary, thank you
THANKS GARY 🤗😎🖼️💚💚💚
It'll be interesting to see what Apple do with their Photos App now they've bought Pixelmator.
So much for "Pictures never lie." Such a quaint expression. Soviet style purging has never been easier . . .
Hopefully you will use this to remove something like a piece of trash from the grass in a photo of a family member, not to create propaganda to seize the means of production.
@@macmost After watching I was faced with a dilemma: should I purge my niece's former boyfriend from a great family shot that is to be used for a continuous slideshow at my son's wedding? (She will be attending with a new significant other.) Or should I just leave out the picture? I opted for the later even though the removal tool did a remarkable job on a test run
😇😁😁😁
@@macmost or an unwanted person in the photo !
Gary, I have heard that the Apple 15 (not 15 Pro) does not have this option, although my iPhone 15 is running iOS 18.1.1.
So, here’s something interesting I discovered with my iPhone 16 Pro last Sunday. This was a club day run so I shot pictures like usual. Edited on the iPhone as I do then reviewed them on my iPad (larger display, older eyes) as I do before starting to post to Facebook for me and the club page.
The pictures wouldn’t upload, kept having errors. I couldn’t work out why they wouldn’t go up. I had used the new “cleanup” function on 2 photos on my iPhone. The iPad is a few years old but is running iOS 18.1 like the iPhone but not Apple Intelligence. I removed these 2 photos from the post and the iPad pushed them up fine. I grabbed the iPhone off the charger and it added those 2 photos to the uploaded post and also pushed all of the photos to the other page (including the 2 modified) with no issues.
I know the Exif data stores the flag for the mod (which I can see on the iPhone) but this doesn’t display on the older iPad. I’m guessing there is something hidden here that upsets Facebook when it cannot be resolved in the image file. Really weird.
It should be mentioned earlier in your video that this feature is only available for iPhones 15 and later. I watched your video (getting quite excited about using this feature) only to find out that this was mentioned near the end.
When I put details like that at the start others complain that it takes me too long to get to the techniques. So there's no way to please everyone.
I wish that you could turn of the idiotic “safety filter” that comes with cleanup on Apple. I have a bunch of photos that for some reason Apple decides contain nudity and if you try and use the feature it simply replaces the item to be removed with a huge pixelated mess. It’s annoying and I don’t need Apple trying to censor my images. In one picture there is part of a chair on one side. The cleanup function pixelates the chair…
Is there a way to download photos and keep them in a format that can be used to find them? I have 15 year old photo’s and I want to declutter my photos and music.
Do you mean export them from the Photos library so they are just individual files? Once you do that, they would just be files and not part of a library, so you lose all of the useful features that are meant for organizing and finding them. But you can always flip through the files in a folder. So it depends on what you want and how many there are, etc.
Works pretty well, but when you do faces or some photos it tries to overthink what you are doing and does some sort of safety filter and doesn’t work. And you cannot turn off the safety filter.
Thank you for the video. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. Instead of clearing it, I get a pixelated result.
Try it in different photos in different situations.
the problem is that it does not work in some instances , you get a blur ... with the previous version I was able to clean my photos with more control.
I liked the previous version SoOOoo much more... 😫
I also got blurred on my Mac. It doesn't clear it like he showed in the video.
How do I find this feature?
I show that in the video. Make sure you have a Mac updated to 15.1 and that meets the requirements.
How about eliminating duplicates when the duplicate functionality in Photos or even Duplicate cleaner Apps don't work. I have photos with the same file name IMG_1234.JPG which have the higher file size and IMG_1234.jpg with like 50KB. No tools have been able to clean these. Hope you can help. Thanks
If you know a photo is a duplicate, then just delete the one you don't want.
@@macmost If it was that simple I wouldn't have asked LOL, I probably have thousands
@@OrangeismyNewGreen I wonder why they aren't being recognized by the Duplicates feature.
can it remove text on a photo?
Depends on the circumstance. Try it and see.
How is this not cloning? Or is it cloning with some of the steps built in, like a shortcut? (I had a background photo on my PC at work of a horse with hobble rope on his foot. I spent one lunch break freeing the poor animal with the clone tool. It took longer than it took you to remove the shadow and pole but the result was the same.)
Often the result will be the same. But this actually uses AI, so often it will "make up" what is in that area based on the surrounding area. Cloning will actually take the surrounding area and use parts of it there.
@ ah I see! Thanks Gary 👍
But not in the UK. :(
It works on your Mac but not on your iPhone and iPad
Now that Pixelmator is part of Apple, I hope we get more editing tools integrated into the Photos app. I will do anything to NOT use Adobe tools.
Is there any way to remove this feature after you stupidly tap it out of curiosity? I don’t want it.
Select the Photo and choose Image, Revert To Original.
It only works in a half-ass fashion. I found it crashes in the middle of a modification…
I'm in a weird spot. My Mac and iPad both supports Apple Intelligence, but my iPhone 13 Pro does not. Which means I can "Clean Up" on my iPad and Mac, just not the phone lol.
It's OK, but not great - it's like a badly used cloning tool, particularly in complex areas. The repair tool in apps like Photomator or Pixelmator is far superior.
Yes, a dedicated graphics too like that will always offer more options. But this is useful for those that don't have a tool like that or the skills to use it.
@@macmostI think this exchange maybe answered the question I just posted.
I wanted to delete someone behind my daughter and it totally smudged out her adjacent face so it’s not perfect, more like a Beta program. If you have a singular cloud in a blue sky it’s fine. Otherwise use Capture one or photoshop.
Did you try zooming in more so you can only select the exact area you want?