A change made by Apple to a teaser on its web site for Tuesday’s “Let Free” occasion may give away a few of Apple’s pondering in relation to its upcoming iOS 18 replace later this 12 months. Noticed first by AppleInsider, the teaser, consisting of the Apple emblem, turned interactive on Monday and allowed customers to erase some or all the emblem utilizing their mouse as an eraser.
Whereas some consider that Apple is solely selling the brand new Apple Pencil Professional, the rumored title for the next-gen digital writing device that Apple is predicted to unveil Tuesday, others consider that it has a extra difficult that means. Some consider that erasing the brand is an indication that Apple plans on providing generative AI enhancing for the native iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Images app. In pre-release variations of macOS 15, this function is aptly referred to as “Clear Up” and is positioned within the edit menu subsequent to different enhancing choices comparable to changes, filters, and cropping in a brand new model of the Images app.
Apple’s abruptly interactive emblem on its web site could possibly be a clue about an AI enhancing function for the up to date Images app
“Clear Up” apparently replaces the Retouch function on macOS. Not solely does it deal with enhancing chores extra capably, but it surely additionally will be capable of take away bigger objects from a photograph. Customers will be capable of choose a “brush device” to focus on the realm of the picture that they need eliminated. These testing the function have reportedly been in a position to alter the scale of the “brush device” to make it simpler to focus on and take away smaller or bigger objects.
Tomorrow, Apple is predicted to introduce the brand new iPad Professional (2024) which ought to be the primary iPads within the historical past of the product to sport OLED panels. The revealing of the following iteration of the iPad Professional fashions might embody an announcement from Apple stating that its new top-of-the-line tablets are powered by the highly effective M4 chip. The M4 options an enhanced Neural Engine which implies that it presents better AI capabilities than the M2 chip that drives the present iPad Professional tablets, and the M3 which was initially rumored to energy the brand new iPad Professional fashions.
When the iPad Professional (2024) tablets are introduced on Tuesday, mentioning the M4 might give Apple a gap to debate AI through the occasion. Whereas Apple will not absolutely preview its AI initiative till the WWDC keynote on June tenth, we might hear just a little about “Clear Up” as quickly as tomorrow because it appears like a function that will even make its option to the iPad beside the Mac and the iPhone. Apple can also be anticipated to replace its native Notes, Calculator, Calendar, and Highlight apps later this 12 months.
Apple might present us tomorrow how the Apple Pencil will assist take away objects from images on the iPad Images app utilizing “Clear Up.” We’ll know if Apple did certainly preview this function tomorrow at about 7:35 am PT/10:35 am ET when Tuesday’s occasion involves an finish.
