What is Apple’s Image Playground app for and how do you use it?
Apple’s Image Playground is an on-device image generator that lets people create, customise and share images, including personalised emoji called Genmoji. It is built into apps such as Messages, Keynote and Freeform, and a recent update adds more flexible style prompts, touch-based edits and options for Contact Posters and Lock Screen wallpapers.
Users can start with a text description, choose a style, or base an image on a person or photo from their library. They can then refine the result with further prompts or by selecting and changing parts of the image. The app launched in December 2024 and requires Apple Intelligence on an iPhone 15 Pro or later, or a supported iPad or Mac with an M1 chip or newer.
- Image Playground creates images on Apple devices.
- Users can customise results with prompts and touch edits.
- It also supports Genmoji, Contact Posters and wallpapers.
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Apple’s Image Playground is a tool for making pictures with artificial intelligence, software that creates images from instructions. It can also make Genmoji, personalised emoji, and is built into Apple apps including Messages, Keynote and Freeform.
People can describe an image in words, pick a visual style or use a person or photo from their library as a starting point. They can adjust the result with more instructions or by selecting parts to change, then share it or use it in features such as Contact Posters and Lock Screen wallpapers.
The app launched in December 2024 and requires Apple Intelligence, Apple’s set of AI features. It works on iPhone 15 Pro or later, and on supported iPads and Macs with an M1 chip or newer.