Clean up your photos
Use the new AI-powered Clean Up tool to remove unwanted objects
IT WILL TAKE
15 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN
How to use Apple’s Clean Up tool and access extensions
YOU’LL NEED
macOS 15.1 or later,
Pixelmator Pro/Adobe Photoshop optional
Apple Intelligence is finally here – and that means Photos now has added image-editing superpowers, thanks to the new AI-assisted Clean Up tool.
In older versions of Photos for Mac, you could try using the Retouch tool to replace unwanted spots or blemishes, but it struggled to remove larger objects without leaving smudged or blurry pixels. And there was no Retouch tool in the iOS version of Photos. The new AI-powered Clean Up tool does a much better job of replacing unwanted objects (such as a distracting background photo bomber) to create a cleaner shot. We’re looking at Clean Up on the Mac and iPad here, but the tool is available in the iOS version of Photos too.