iOS 27 Photos AI Features Explained: Spatial Reframing, Extend, and Apple's Guardrails
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Gadget HacksiOS 27 Photos AI Features Explained: Spatial Reframing, Extend, and Apple's Guardrailsgadgethacks.comiOS 27 Photos AI Features Explained: Spatial Reframing, Extend, and Apple's Guardrails Two Apple Photos executives gave their clearest public account yet of what the iOS 27 Photos AI features are built to do. The word they kept returning to was "refine." The flagship tool, Spatial Reframing, can shift the apparent camera angle of a photo after the fact and change where a subject appears to be looking. That's a harder sell for "refinement" than Apple's framing acknowledges. In a new interview with Tyler Stalman, covered by 9to5Mac today, Photos executive Huff said the goal is to take a recorded memory and help users "refine" it, then drew a distinction between two senses of that word: cleaning up distractions versus adjusting composition or perspective. The guardrails Apple has built around these tools are substantive. AI generation fires only where a perspective shift creates missing pixels. The Extend tool is capped at 25% per side and restricted to a si
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