If you are using iOS 16 on your iPhone, you might have noticed that when you click on a photo, some kind of icon appears with a lightning drawing. If you hold down the key, you’ll see a light glow around an object in the photo, as if that item was selected.
You’re probably wondering what this weird feature is and what you’re supposed to do with it.
It is, neither more nor less, a trick of Software very clever that identifies the subject of a photo and isolates it from the background.
All you have to do is click on a person, pet, or other object in a photo – it has to be the main one – and you’ll see another animation to show you it worked.
Two options should appear: ‘Copy’ and ‘Share’.
If you choose the “Copy” option, you can paste the cropped image (which appears on a white background) into a social media post, note, document, or almost any application that supports images .
The ‘Share’ button is a little easier, allowing you to quickly post your cute kitty cutout (for example) to Twitter or another social network, send it to your recent contacts, attach it to an email , AirDrop it to someone nearby, or share it with another app.
As always, you can use the “Share” menu to save the image to your iPhone so you can share it later. You can also assign it to a contact, print it, or even create an Apple Watch face from it.
Although photo cropping has a great wow factor, it also has its limitations. It’s great for selecting the subject and background, even if the photo wasn’t taken with your iPhone’s cameras.
But it’s not foolproof. This doesn’t always work perfectly: there are issues if there is something in front of the subject, such as tall grass, something immediately next to the subject, or if the subject is a similar color to the back -plan. Even then, it does an incredibly good job.
Try it out and see how it works on your photos. Apple says the feature isn’t just available in the Photos app – it should also work in Safari, Quick Look, Screenshots and other apps.
Original article published in English on our sister site TechAdvisor.
