The latest beta of iOS 18.1 brings with it ‘Clean Up’. This is a new Apple Intelligence feature that will allow us to remove people from photos. It’s a new feature for the iPhone Photos app, but it doesn’t really apply to Google Photos. Apple Intelligence is currently limited to iPhones in the United States and won’t be coming to Europe until 2025. It will also only work on the new iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 Pro (iPhone 15). It has been left out.

That’s why I’m going to show you how to remove people from photos, completely free of charge, regardless of the iPhone model you have. It’s a process with only one sacrifice: giving our photo to Google.

Download Google Photos. Although it’s the default gallery on some Android phones, nothing stops you from downloading Google Photos to your iPhone for free. You’ll need a Google account to use it. The app is completely free, and since you only use iCloud, if you’ve never used a Google account before, you get 15GB of storage that’s completely free.

It is important to know that there are two requirements to perform this deletion process. The first is that the photo must be stored on Google servers, namely with the backup copy created in Google Photos.

Secondly, this is done in the cloud, so you will need a network connection, whether mobile or WiFi.

It is Google’s responsibility to analyze the restIf we have a photo with subjects and people in the background, Google will warn you that it can remove people from the background. Just click on “remove all” and it will remove the people behind you as if there was a magic wand.

But the app goes much further. The magic eraser is included in Google Photos for free and is one of the editing options it allows. All we have to do is open the photo, click on edit and select the magic eraser.

We can no longer just delete people; we can delete any element of our photo simply by selecting it.

Apple’s interesting comebackIn recent years, Apple has been one of the purest companies when it comes to photography. While its competitors apply artificial intelligence functions to give vitamins to photos at the cost of losing naturalness, Apple’s path has always been not to want to change reality.

The season opens with ‘Cleanup’. This is a great first step for an Apple that is not afraid to offer modification tools using AI and that could surprise us in the future with productive editing functions, just like Google has managed to do.

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