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Apple’s Image Playground finally delivers on its promise with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27. The AI image generator that launched to widespread criticism in 2024 has been dramatically upgraded. Once mocked for cartoonish results and basic flaws like extra limbs, the new version produces sharp, photorealistic, and creative images that actually match your prompts — often rivaling (or beating) what you’d get from other tools.
In this preview, Cult of Mac tests the improvements side-by-side, explores on-device vs. cloud generation, and discovers a genuinely useful tool for everyday creativity.
Ed Hardy for Cult of Mac:
Image Playground was one of the flagship features unveiled as part of Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024. The app was designed to let users quickly create playful, AI-generated images from text prompts, photos and suggested concepts… Problem is, Image Playground produced cartoon-y images with all the typical AI flaws, like too many limbs or fingers. It quickly became one of the most criticized Apple Intelligence features because many users found it far less capable and more restricted than rival AI image generators.
Thankfully, Apple used WWDC26 to unveil a new generation of Image Playground. I and my co-worker D. Griffin Jones have been testing it…
And before I say anything else, it is important to note that we’ve been playing around with the first developer beta of the new Image Playground. The full version won’t be released to the general public for at least three months, and there’s plenty of time for improvement.
MacDailyNews Take: The new Image Playground really is “night and day” better!
Check out all of the side-by-side and other examples of Apple’s new Image Playground beta in the full article here.
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