When Apple unveiled Image Playground final yr, the corporate touted it as a fast and straightforward solution to generate personalised, unique photographs with the assistance of Apple Intelligence. Upon launch, the app was met with skepticism, as some customers have been dissatisfied by its limitations and low-quality results.

For instance, one Reddit user was shocked to search out that Picture Playground stored producing a picture of a hand with six fingers when prompted to create an “up shut picture of a hand.” In another instance, a consumer was unable to obtain photographs of straightforward descriptions, similar to “outdated man” or “flower.”

Some individuals even questioned what the point of the app was, noting that it appeared juvenile when in comparison with fashionable AI picture turbines. (In fact, not all people dislikes the app; some have described it as being a fun experience.)

Quick-forward to this year’s WWDC, the place the tech big introduced that it’s going to spice up Picture Playground with a ChatGPT integration, which ought to enable for a greater, extra superior AI picture era service.

With the brand new ChatGPT integration, customers will have the ability to entry extra kinds that transfer past the emoji-like creations that Picture Playground has change into recognized for.

Photos may be created within the following new kinds: Oil Portray, Watercolor, Vector, Anime, and Print. As well as, individuals will have the ability to choose a brand new “Any Fashion” possibility that permits them to explain precisely what they need. These new kinds can be seen below a banner that reads “ChatGPT model.”

Up to now, customers have been restricted to Animation, Illustration, Sketch, and Genmoji kinds.

Apple says that Picture Playground will ship a consumer’s description to ChatGPT to generate a picture. The tech big notes that it received’t share something with ChatGPT with out customers’ permission.

By integrating ChatGPT into Picture Playground, Apple is giving the app one other shot at attracting customers whereas positioning its AI picture creation software as a extra well-rounded competitor to different related free apps.

Plus, it is sensible for Apple to leverage ChatGPT to spice up Picture Playground, particularly for the reason that firm has already tapped OpenAI’s instruments in different methods.

Final yr, Apple announced that it was bringing ChatGPT to Siri and different first-party apps and capabilities throughout its working techniques. With Siri, the assistant leverages ChatGPT when it’s unable to reply a query by itself or when a consumer particularly asks Siri to ship an inquiry to ChatGPT. Apple has additionally built-in ChatGPT into system-wide instruments like Writing Instruments, permitting customers to generate, rewrite, and summarize textual content in apps like Notes and Mail.

The up to date Picture Playground app is anticipated to launch alongside the release of iOS 26 this fall.