iOS 16 owners are becoming imaginative using the new feature to remove background for photos
We made this statement earlier in the year and we’re sticking to it today: the new background removal and image cutout feature is probably the most entertaining thing that’s emerge from iOS 16. Sure, the Lock Screen widgets and the ability to customize them are great but you’re likely not going to be experimenting on them daily.
If you don’t know what this function is, iOS 16 lets you “pick” any object from the photo then save the image as an individual transparent imagesimilar to the background removal tool. This feature is accessible in iOS in many situations, assisted by Apple’s CoreML technology.
Since the feature is accessible to users who want to use it, they’re putting it into make use of it in various ways.
One of the most interesting uses is the iOS 16 user who is keeping track of his everyday outfits in notes in the Notes app. As shown in an instructional video in which users (@macaulay_flower in TikTok) made use of using the feature of removing background to take the clip of him when he changed clothes and pasted it into notes to document the different outfits he wore.
Inspirated by this case The former employee of Apple Matthew Cassinelli was able to automate the process using the use of a Siri Shortcut that he posted on Twitter.
Once you’ve downloaded this shortcut to your iPhone There will be the “Outfit of the Day” option in the Share Sheet. Then, visit any image that features an outfit, click this button on the Share Sheet and the cutout will be saved as an eponymous note.
One of our favorite scenarios using this feature is to automate the cataloguing of images into various folders such as food pet, shopping, pets, or memes for example.
To accomplish this we created our own handy shortcut which removes the background of an image and then puts it in the folder titled “Background removed.” You can utilize to trigger the “Remove Image Background” option on the Share Sheet in order to start it. It’s quite basic, which means you’ll need to create the folder manually prior to using the shortcut. In order to create categories, you just need to duplicate the shortcut and then rename it.
The feature to remove background is great, but it only detects things that appear in the center of the image regardless of whether there are many of them. We’re hoping Apple will add more advanced tools for object separation and editing to collage-make in the Photos app in future versions of this feature.