Previously, Image Playground was limited to fairly generic emoji-style images. Now, through the integration of a ChatGPT setting, users can choose to generate an image in any art style or, they ...

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One of Image Playground's key superpowers is its ability to generate characters that look cannily like you. This takes some training with images of you in your photo library.

Apple says that Image Playground will send a user’s description to ChatGPT to generate an image. The tech giant notes that it won’t share anything with ChatGPT without users’ permission.

Image Playground is part of Apple Intelligence, a range of AI-driven tools from Apple. The new feature enables users to enter a text prompt, and the AI will produce an image that has a cartoon style.

Then, I asked Image Playground to generate an image of a kitten with baby snakes scattered around. Apple Intelligence struggled there and fused multiple tails into the image in a snake-like formation.

Apple Image Playground Lets You Generate Your Own Hallmark Christmas Movie Poster Image Playground is now available in iOS 18.2 if you want to try it out for yourself.

Image Playground, which is built into Apple apps like Messages, Pages, Keynote, and Freeform (as well as its own stand-alone app), utilizes prompts to generate new images.