Apple just announced a notable update to Image Playground, its AI-powered image generation tool introduced last year as part of the Apple Intelligence rollout. Now, ChatGPT will appear as a filter option. Here’s what that means.
Since its phased rollout last year, Image Playground has offered users an easy way to create illustrations in styles like “Sketch,” “3D cartoon,” and “Animation”. However, users have complained that the app has often felt somewhat limited, both in the kinds of images it could produce and in the specificity of prompts it could understand.
With iOS 26, that’s changing.
ChatGPT image generation comes to Image Playground
During today’s WWDC keynote, Apple confirmed that Image Playground is getting a new integration with ChatGPT. This will allow users to generate images in the following styles:
Any Style
Oil Painting
Watercolor
Vector
Anime
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