Image Playground 12+

It can generate new an interesting photos from a prompt, but that’s it. Just new photos. You can take a current photo and make it fun.

For example, you can upload a photo of yourself and it’ll make a new photo of you that is its interpretation. You can’t have it put you on a mountain top, change your background, or even use a group photo and have all of you in a sketch or watercolor style. Only one person and only its interpretation.

It’s really limiting what you can do. I ask for sheep jumping over the moon, and I got an up close photo of a sheep smiling and a moon in the background. I asked for a photo of me as a wizard and I got an fave shot with maybe a robe on, but not full body doing anything interesting. It just makes these portrait shots in a cartoon/pixar style

This is clearly meant to only make profile type pics. All humans are directly front facing and only from the shoulders up. You can use it for other items, I did a few of my cat and a few of some flower photos. All were overtly cartoonish and too cutesy. If the purpose is to let preschoolers make fun pics of themselves as cowboys in front of a mountain with a lighthouse you’re in luck. But if you want interaction between multiple people or even a whole body pic, or want to use parameters like fight, gun, or battle too bad. I tried to create a fight scene between an eel and a tiger and the app didn’t recognize the words. This is basically the cheap toy version of an image generator and not worth your time. I’ve been using it in the beta for roughly two months since became available and if Apple just removed it no one would miss it. In fact it would be a service to their customers because no one would have to be disappointed about the time time wasted trying to use it and learning that it’s just trash. It makes me think Apple created this just so they could tell shareholders about the great new product they made without actually innovating and creating a great new product. Another example of how Apple has lost its way the last few years. But I digress. Go ahead, get the beta and try this out. Maybe you’ll love it. I doubt it.

For most people it’s really just a gimmick. It could be use useful for writers or people who need quick little pictures that goes along with their text or other forms of work. Or it could be used for fun to just show off, but outside of that, there’s just not much use. That being said, the app is rated based on this usefulness for the user, rather than its quality as an image generation app. So, as an image generation app, this thing is amazing, it’s integrated throughout so many parts of your iPhone, has a very simple interface, and is (mostly) on point with your images. It’s definitely not perfect, but it also just released, so many more improvements will come. So yeah, might not be incredibly useful, but it serves its purpose for the people who want it. It’s not some ground-breaking technology, but it’s a fun little addition to the Apple ecosystem. I can definitely see myself using this for some things, just not extremely often.