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Apple’s AI photo editing push in iOS 27 is the right move. It’s just arriving three years after Google’s Magic Editor and several Galaxy AI generations later.
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Google’s Photos app has been doing things that Apple’s Photos app couldn’t, for years, and the iPhone-maker has noticed. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, in his latest report, claims that iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will come with a dedicated “Apple Intelligence Tools” section inside the Photos editing interface.
The “Apple Intelligence Tools” section will include three new AI-powered photo-editing features: Extend, Enhance, and Reframe. Before we begin with what the features actually do, all of them will run entirely on-device, and, in a typical Apple fashion, complete their edits in seconds.
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What will the new Apple Intelligence photo editing tools do?
Extend, as the name suggests, extends a picture’s boundaries by generating new imagery and seamlessly stitching it to the existing one. You should be able to use the feature to add some surrounding to close-up shots or add some negative space to either side of the subject.
Enhance, on the other hand, works as a one-tap enhancement button, which immediately adjusts the color, lighting, and the overall image quality, without going through different editing options and fiddling with various sliders.
Reframe is designed primarily for spatial photos captured for the Vision Pro headset. It lets users shift the perspective of a 3D image after it’s already been taken, allowing you to move from a front-facing to a side-facing view.
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Is Apple actually ready to release all three features?
Not at the moment, no. Per Gurman, both the Extend and Reframe features are producing inconsistent results in the internal testing. If the underlying AI models don’t adapt or the results don’t improve significantly before the September launch event, Apple might delay them or scale back.
While I’m a big fan of the Apple Photos app myself, it currently offers only one AI-based editing feature, Clean Up, and that doesn’t work as well as the feature does on other smartphones like the Galaxy S or the Pixel flagship series.
I remember when Google released its Magic zeditor in 2023, and Samsung’s Galaxy AI followed quite aggressively in the coming years. In response, the best Apple could come up with was Clean Up. In my opinion, Apple genuinely needs the Extend, Enhance, and Reframe features to work, and work in time for a showcase at the WWDC 2026 and a public release in September.
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Amazon now lets you have a real conversation with AI while shopping for products
Amazon’s new Join the chat feature lets you ask questions while listening to AI product summaries
Shopping on Amazon just got a lot more conversational. The company has launched Join the chat, a new interactive feature inside its existing Hear the highlights experience.
If you have not come across Hear the highlights before, it is an AI-powered audio summary tool that lives on millions of product pages inside the Amazon Shopping app. It gives you a short audio rundown of a product’s key features, pulled from product details, customer reviews, and other publicly available information.
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You can now use Google Translate to practice your pronunciation with real-time AI feedback
Google Translate’s AI pronunciation coach is finally here.
Google Translate is celebrating its 20th birthday, marking the occasion with something users have been requesting for a long time. Google is introducing pronunciation practice, which is now available on Android for English, Spanish, and Hindi in the US and India. No word yet on when it will expand to other regions or arrive on iOS.
Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate and… the launch of a top-requested feature! 🎂
One of the toughest things about speaking a new language is getting the nuances of pronunciation just right. Now, you can get instant feedback with "pronunciation practice,” which uses AI… pic.twitter.com/DdMfiMB9dz
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Finally, Amazon fixes the one thing that made reading on Kindle Colorsoft painful after dark
Dark Mode on the Kindle Colorsoft isn’t just a visual preference, it’s the feature that finally makes Amazon’s premium colour e-reader feel as complete as the budget models that had it all along.
Amazon’s color Kindle lineup had been missing the budget Kindle models had for years: a system-wide dark mode. However, admitting its oversight, the company has finally released dark mode for both the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft.
Before this update, the only way people could comfortably use the Kindle models for nighttime reading was the Page Color toggle, which inverted colors within supported books. However, the moment you left the book and returned to the home screen, library, settings, or any other page, everything snapped back to bright white.
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