iOS 27 adds three AI-powered editing tools to the iPhone’s Photos app that can remove unwanted objects, expand what’s outside the original frame, and even change the perspective of a photo.
You’ll find all three in the same place. Open a photo, tap the Edit button, then select Tools.
Any changes can be undone later by tapping the three dots and choosing Edits > Revert to Original.
1. Clean Up removes unwanted objects
Clean Up arrived with iOS 18, but iOS 27 makes the tool more precise and adds Fast and High Quality processing modes.
Select Clean Up, then tap, scribble over, or circle the person or object you want to remove. Photos analyzes the surrounding area and generates replacement pixels to fill the space left behind.
Simple backgrounds generally produce the cleanest results. Removing something against a blue sky or plain wall gives the AI relatively little to reconstruct, while objects surrounded by people, patterns, or fine details can leave more noticeable artifacts.
Use Fast when you want a quick result, or High Quality when the surrounding detail makes the edit more difficult.
2. Extend adds more image beyond the original frame
Extend essentially works in reverse of cropping. Instead of cutting away part of an image, it generates additional scenery beyond what the camera originally captured.
Select Extend, then pinch, swipe, or use the handles around the image to create additional space around the original frame. Tap Extend, and Photos will generate what it thinks should appear in the empty areas.
It can be useful when you need a little more sky above someone, want extra room around a subject, or need to straighten a tilted photo without cropping away something important near the edges.
The farther you extend beyond the original image, the more Photos has to invent. Smaller adjustments tend to produce more convincing results.
3. Reframe changes the perspective after you take the photo
Spatial Reframing goes beyond cropping by letting you adjust the apparent camera angle after a picture has already been taken.
Select Reframe and drag across the photo to change the viewpoint. Moving the perspective can make a picture taken from a low or off-center angle appear as though the camera had been positioned differently.
Parts of the new composition that weren’t captured in the original photo initially appear blurred. Once you’ve settled on the perspective you want, tap Reframe again, and Photos generates the missing areas needed to complete the image.
Reframe works best with relatively small corrections. Large perspective changes require the AI to generate considerably more of the scene, and repeatedly reframing the same image can introduce increasingly noticeable distortions.
For a slightly awkward camera angle, though, it gives you an editing option that previously would have required considerably more work outside the Photos app.
