iPhone 16: Unveiling Apple’s Image Features Powered by Apple Intelligence and The Top Alternative

Summary: Apple held its "glowtime event" on September 9, introducing iPhone 16 to the world. Apple Intelligence definitely won the most attention. In this article, we will focus on the image features powered by this technology, informing you of the critical information. Meanwhile, we will show you a powerful alternative to it.

On September 9, Apple held its grand glowtime event, introducing the significant updates of its much-anticipated iPhone 16 equipped with the powerful and intelligent iOS 18 and announcing its release date--September 20. Among all the major updates, Apple Intelligence (Apple AI) definitely grips global users’ minds, enabling them to enjoy a more capable and smarter iPhone.

After watching the event, we are absolutely overwhelmed by this mind-blowing technology. Setting foot in image manipulation, we are mostly concerned about and pay special attention to the AI features regarding image creation. Therefore, we have summarized key information about Apple Intelligence, particularly its image features, exploring what makes it unique. Also, a practical alternative will be introduced to better cater to your needs of image generation with AI. If you are also interested in or still vague about this part, you can’t miss this blog post.

Essential Things to Know About Apple Intelligence

What is Apple Intelligence?

Apple Intelligence is a smart system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac equipped with iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. It combines advanced artificial intelligence models and algorithms with users’ personal data to provide relevant and helpful features. The latest Apple silicon helps it to understand and generate text and images, perform actions across apps and simplify daily tasks based on your context. Therefore, you will feel the magic of Apple Intelligence in the following three sections: writing, images and Siri. More importantly, with the help of iPhone 16’s Private Cloud Compute, Apple balances privacy and performance. Hence, you will worry little about the leak of your personal data.

However, Apple Intelligence is currently a beta within a beta, which can be fully accessible in Apple's latest developer beta for iOS, iPadOS and MacOS. Its full version can be enjoyed by users later this fall for a subset of iPhones, iPads and Macs with the necessary chipsets.

What can Apple Intelligence do for image creation?

When it comes to image generation, Apple Intelligence brings users the following new features:

Image Playground (Left): It is an image-related generative AI that allows users to create AI-generated images from text descriptions based on three styles: animation, illustration and sketch. Besides, several concepts from different categories are at their disposal, such as themes, costumes, accessories, and places. It is built into a range of apps on iPhone 16, including Messages, Keynote, Freeform, Pages and more. So, users can easily bring their imagination to life with AI and unleash their creativity when chatting with their friends or doing projects.

Genmoji Creation (Middle): This function enables users to make their own emojis to show their individuality. You can either create one from text prompts or the photos of your friends or family, coupled with additional options to fine-tune your works.

Clean Up (Right): This tool makes it possible to remove objects from your photo without destroying the original content too much. With its help, you can easily get rid of any unwanted people or objects in the background of your image.



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Memories: It is the most unique update since it boasts automatic storyline creation according to users’ photos and even videos. Simply typing a description, you can see a narrative-filled movie arranged by a series of photos picked by Apple Intelligence, which matches the theme identified from them with your description. Furthermore, it will offer you advice from Apple Music to assist you in adding suitable background music to the created film.

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However, since the full version of Apple intelligence is still in the pipeline, is there a way to enjoy simple, convenient and powerful AI image creation on an iPhone? Yes. There is a useful alternative to Apple Intelligence, which is easy to use and meet your various needs for AI image generation. Please read on to learn more specific information.

The Top Alternative to The Image Creation Features of Apple Intelligence

To experience effortless and convenient AI image creation like Apple Intelligence, you’d better have Fotor on your iPhone.

Fotor is one of the most prestigious and acclaimed tools for image editing, graphic design and AI image generation. It impresses global users with its ease of use and versatile features. Besides, it boasts cross-platform availability, allowing users to create and edit images on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone. As for its AI functionalities, Fotor provides those covered by and beyond Apple Intelligence. With its help, you can do more for AI image creation.

What Apple Intelligence and We Both Offer:

These are the features that both Apple Intelligence and Fotor can offer:

AI Image Generator: Fotor is a powerful AI image creator from text and photos. It can convert text prompts or uploaded photos to AI-generated pictures in seconds. More than 50 vivid and creative AI styles are available to make your images more vivid and stunning, such as photography, digital art, cartoon, tattoo art, cinematic, neonpunk, illustration, oil painting, pencil drawing, pixel art, etc. You can generate up to six high-quality images based on one prompt or photo, flexibly adjusting their aspect ratios before their generation. You can totally rely on it to make your own imaginative pictures, icons, logos, emojis and more for later use.

AI Replace Tool: Fotor offers an amazingly useful AI replace tool. It allows users to turn the chosen original content into the new one generated by Fotor’s AI image generator. Simply use the magic brush to cover the content you want to replace and enter your text descriptions in the text box beside it to create an AI-generated picture. Then, the chosen content will be replaced automatically without further manual editing and quality damage.

AI Object Remover: Fotor’s object eraser enables you to remove unwanted objects in your photos, including text, watermarks, logos, unexpected people or something that distracts you. Just use our magic eraser to select the unwanted objects and press “remove” to delete them seamlessly. This AI-powered tool will leave your images flawless since no damage will be caused after the object removal.

Emoji Maker: Feel free to use the icon style inside Fotor's AI image generate to create exclusive and creative emojis. Use our background remover if you want a pefect emoji with a transparent background. Also, more than an AI image tool, Fotor emerges as a practical graphic designer for users of all levels. Its emoji designer gives users 100+ emoji templates with editable elements like colors, effects, styles and more. Therefore, you can customize the chosen sample to fit to your own needs, presenting endless fascinating and exclusive emojis to make you stand out on diverse platforms like WhatsApp and Discord, or for different festive vibes like Christmas, Halloween and more.

What We Offer Exclusively:

These are the features that exist in Fotor only.
(However, they are only a selection of all our tools. You can install Fotor on your iPhone to explore the others by yourself.)

AI Art Effects: In addition to the aforementioned effects inside its AI image generator, Fotor will surprise you with more AI art effects, like cartoon 3D, clay 3D, GTA, PS2, mosaic, monet, barbie, ink art, black and white, yearbook, red carpet, luxury, retro and more. You can ignite the flame of your imagination and creativity with our 100+ AI art effects and filters, turning the photos of your friends, family and yourself into outstanding artworks with AI.

AI Hairstyle Changer: Easily try on different hairstyles with Fotor’s AI hairstyle changer to locate the ideal look for yourself before your haircut. Also, you can see what you will be like with different hair colors and make a unique profile picture for your Apple ID or social media to make an outstanding presence.

AI Face Swap: Effortlessly put your face on another person’s body or replace your own with another one. Fotor supplies you with preset faces based on a variety of themes like sporty, 80’s fever and more. However, feel free to use your prepared photo to enjoy fast face swapping with just one click. Depend on this tool to amuse your friends or families in Messages or share a hilarious face-morphed photo with your followers on social media.

AI Image Extender: It is an exciting feature to expand your existing photo based on the content in it with AI. You need only one click to experience fast image expansion without even description input and expect it to be natural and realistic. Just make use of this tool to enjoy unexpected fun with your existing pictures.

AI Baby Generator: Upload your partner’s and your photos to see what your baby will look like in seconds. You can quickly get hyper-realistic AI baby face predictions in both genders. Just share your “baby” online to spread the fun.

Why should you choose Fotor?

• Easy to use: Fotor is known for its intuitive interface and simple operations. Even beginners will find it less challenging to generate images with AI, edit their photos and complete their graphic designs.
• Versatile Features: Fotor is an all-around app with a range of useful image features. It can serve as an image editor/converter, a graphic designer and an AI image generator/editor. With its help, all your image-related requests can be met with great ease. Additionally, exclusive features can be found in Fotor to astonish and impress you.
• Various Styles/Templates: Fotor provides 100+ intriguing AI styles, effects and filters to help users breathe life into their imagination. Moreover, there are hundreds of easily editable design templates to make users of all levels work out satisfactory and stunning designs for every category and scenario.
• Strong Compatibility: Fotor is compatible with all mainstream platforms, from Windows and Mac to Android and iOS devices. Whatever your equipment is, you can access it anywhere and anytime, experiencing simple and convenient image design and AI image generation.
• Safe and Secure: Your safety is our priority. Fotor adopts progressive encryption technology to safeguard your information security and guarantee your data privacy. For its online tools, sign-in is required and you will be the only one to access the uploaded files.

More About Apple Intelligence (FAQs)

Which devices will Apple Intelligence work on?

According to the recent information, the following Apple devices will be capable of running Apple Intelligence:

• iPhone 16 Series
  
• iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max
  
• iPad Air with an M1 or M2 chip
  
• iPad Pro with an M1, M2 or M4 chip
  
• MacBook Air with an M1, M2 or M3 chip
  
• MacBook Pro with an M1, M2 or M3 chip
  
• Mac Mini with an M1 or M2 chip
  
• Mac Studio with an M1 or M2 chip
  
• iMac with an M1 or M3 chip
  
• Mac Pro with an M2 chip
  

When is Apple Intelligence available to use?

Apple hasn't set an exact release date, but Apple Intelligence is coming as an opt-in beta later this fall. Right now, you can try it on a compatible iPhone, iPad or Mac with the developer beta of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 or MacOS Sequoia 15.1. Please also set Siri and your device language to US English

Is Apple Intelligence ChatGPT?

It is not entirely true. According to the latest information, Apple Intelligence has now integrated OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Siri and Writing Tools. Users can control when it is used and will be asked before sharing their information. Hence, it means that ChatGPT is only a feature inside Apple Intelligence. iPhone users can access ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence for free without signing up. Meanwhile, ChatGPT subscribers can connect their accounts to access paid features within these experiences.

Final Thought

More than just another routine upgrade, iPhone 16 is definitely a leap forward in mobile photography, driven by its cutting-edge Apple Intelligence. With features that redefine what’s possible with a smartphone generative AI, it sets a new standard for image creativity and creation convenience.

However, since Apple Intelligence is still a developer beta and its full version remains unavailable, a helpful alternative will allow iPhone users to enjoy simple and convenient AI image generation. Fotor can be your ideal option owing to its user-friendliness, multiple functionalities and creative inspiration. Try it now to take AI image generation on your iPhone to the next level.