Have you ever taken a photo you really liked, only to realize later that you stood too close, cut off part of the background or framed the subject in the wrong spot? Normally, fixing that means cropping even more of the photo.Now your phone may be able to go in the other direction.Apple added new Extend and Reframe tools to Photos in iOS 27.
Instead of simply cutting away part of an image, Apple Intelligence can generate additional areas around the original shot or change its perspective after you take it.Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones offer similar AI editing tools that can help rescue photos that did not come out quite the way you planned.Join us for a free CyberGuy LIVE class.Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson shares practical ways to stay safer, smarter and more confident with technology.
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(iStock)Apple added several Apple Intelligence upgrades to Photos with iOS 27.Two of the most useful are Extend and Reframe.Extend lets you expand a photo beyond its original borders.
For example, if someone's head is too close to the top of the image or you want more space around the subject, Apple Intelligence can generate additional background.Reframe goes further.Apple says it lets you change the point of capture after taking the photo.
You can move the image, zoom, rotate it and adjust its perspective while Apple Intelligence generates the additional portions needed for the new composition.These tools go beyond traditional cropping.Cropping removes part of your image.
Extend and Reframe can create parts of the image that were never captured by the camera.Because th...