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How to use Clean Up to edit your photos on an iPhone

1.

Clean Up tool in Photos app running on ios 18.1

(It’s the three stacked lines that look like sliders.)

On the ensuing screen,select Clean Upfrom the bottom row of editing options.

Just sit tight until the download finishes.

Select edit in Photos App and use Clean Up option

(This is a one-time occurence that won’t appear in subsequent edits.)

Select what you want to remove.

Once you select Clean Up, the feature will highlight potentially distracting objects or people in your photo.

select objects or people you want to remove in photo

Confirm the changes

Clean Up will make your selection disappear.

If you don’t care for the change, tap Reset in the top center of the screen.

(Reset will removeallchanges that you’ve made to the photo.)

Tap reset to eliminate changes or Done if you prefer the Clean Up version

If you like what Clean Up did,tap Done.

But you could always recover your original later on.

In this example, I’ll use a photo of my friend and I at a baseball game.

To revert changes, tap edit in Photos app

Here’s how I got my original image back.

Revert to the original photo

In the upper right corner,tap the red Revert button.

You’ll need toconfirm that you want to remove any editsmade to the photo.

tap revert and then confirm to undo edits

View the original

Your photo will be automatically restored to its original look.

As you might see, the people on the right side of the shot have returned in my photo.

And that’s all there is to using the Clean Up tool.

restored photo in iOS 18.1 after undoing photo clean up

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