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macOS 27 Golden Gate doesn’t give the Photos app a dramatic redesign. Instead, Photos gains a surprisingly broad set of various improvements this year. These range from Apple Intelligence-powered editing, new ways to organize and sort your collection, better sharing tools, and much more.
More powerful Apple Intelligence editing
The flashiest updates to the Photos app in macOS 27 Golden Gate live in a new Tools pane. They require Apple Intelligence on a compatible Mac.
Clean Up gets a significant quality boost. Apple says it can now handle larger objects and more complex scenes with more realistic results.
Separately, a fast mode is intended for small blemishes, while high quality mode tackles more intricate edits not possible before.
The new Extend tool uses generative models to expand an image beyond its original edges.
That can help when straightening a horizon, changing an aspect ratio, or simply creating more space around a subject. Extend is also available from the Crop tool.
Then there’s Spatial Reframing.
First, Photos builds a 3D view of a scene using on-device spatial models. This lets you rotate around a subject, pan, or zoom to change the apparent camera position.
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