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early yesterday morning, apple pushed the third beta version of ios18.1.

currently, 18.1 beta is specially used by apple to test apple intelligence. only the iphone 15 pro (max) series can experience it, and it is not yet available in the chinese market.

when the first 18.1 beta version was released, shichao specially bought an american version of iphone to experience apple ai's ability to summarize emails, articles, and rewrite sentences, but they were all quite average.

in this update, apple added 2 AI function.

the first is an ai that summarizes notifications received on the phone.

but as of the time of writing, it has not given shichao a single message to summarize, probably because it does not support chinese notifications.

the second is to add an editing function called clean up to the photo app, which is used to remove people.

for example, if there is a stranger in the background of your photo, you can use clean up to erase it.

hiss, does it sound familiar?android manufacturers and third-party software have been working on this for years, so why is apple only doing it now?

but now that it's out, it's better than nothing.

let’s first try removing everyone from the photo except the cook and see the effect.

how to use it.

open the photo, click edit, and then click "clean up" (for the first time use, you need to download the model first).

after that, the iphone will automatically identify the characters you may need to eliminate and sprinkle some holy light on them.

at this time, just click and these people will disappear.

the effect looks good at first glance, but don’t worry, our target is the two big guys next to them.

you can use your finger to roughly smudge, and the iphone will recognize the subject and remove it.

to be honest, this effect is neither good nor bad, because the background in the lower right corner is very abrupt.

let's try this one again, with the goal of removing everyone except the cook.

as a result, all the people were removed and the background was indeed filled in, but the chef's legs were not filled in.

i have tried it several times and got stuck here every time.

let's try this one again, aiming to remove the two people in the distance on the left.

although apple automatically recognized the person behind, the effect was not good.

a corner of the round table was dug out, and the hand next to it was not removed. even though i intervened later, the handling was not perfect.

then shichao took another test.

the apple looks good in this photo, probably because steve jobs is in the photo and the background is well complemented.

in fact, not only people, but any element can be removed.

for example, we can steal the tableware of the hot pot when the hot pot is not paying attention.

it can also remove watermarks from images.

of course, clean up can not only erase unwanted elements, but also play a role in protecting privacy.

i guess many people use a brush to manually blur faces or sensitive information when posting pictures.

but with clean up, as long as you draw on the person's face, it will be blurred.

if you want to hide the avatar or number in the screenshot, you can also erase it.

based on the above test by shichao, apple's clean up is sufficient to remove some small elements in the picture. however, if the subject to be removed is too large, or there are too many images in the imagination, the apple's clean up will not work. AI you won't be able to bear it.

what about other manufacturers? how are their results?

shichao tested the xiaomi phone, and it will also automatically recognize the human subject, and it can be eliminated after clicking and waiting for a few seconds.

the effect is slightly better than that of apple, especially the background processing is good, with only some details that are blemishes.

in the picture below, xiaomi is much better than guozi. at least cook has a complete pair of legs.

i also tried the ai ​​effect on the oppo phone. i think it is the best among the three, and there are almost no flaws.

however, oppo was unable to hold up under cook's tutelage.

it is worth mentioning that shichao found that apple's clean up is based on a local model and can be used without an internet connection, while xiaomi and oppo rely on cloud servers and cannot be used without an internet connection.

so the above comparison is a bit unfair to apple.

i don’t know why apple made this feature a local model. if it can improve the clean up effect, i can totally accept its network computing.

ok, this is what apple has updated this time AI eliminate the function.

although this feature is very popular on the internet and can solve many user pain points, for apple developers, their situation is becoming increasingly embarrassing.

because mobile phone functions have reached a bottleneck, it is now difficult for any company, including apple, to develop a new function that is both practical and has never been seen before.

if there is no road ahead, you can only look back and see how others have built their roads.

the new features of ios 18 have killed several categories of apps. this ai elimination will definitely hit a large number of photo editing software.

more and more developers are beginning to fear that a system update one day might overwhelm the features they are proud of.

of course, this is a matter of subjective perspective.

for consumers, it would definitely be better if the system had these features built-in.

written by:hedgehog

edit: mangshan soldering iron tip

art: huan yan

image, source：iphone, xiaomi, oppo