If you have an iPhone, you can now remove people from photos with Google's Magic Eraser: How to use it

Google Photos is a cloud-based photo and video storage and organization platform. (Google)

Google has released an update for iPhone users: AI tool Magic Eraser for Google Photos is now available for iOS devices. Previously exclusive to Google Pixel users and premium Google Photos subscribers, this feature makes it easy to remove unwanted elements from your photos and changes the way we capture and share special moments.

Magic Eraser is an artificial intelligence powered tool Allows users to remove unwanted elements from their photos with just a few taps.

Imagine that perfect photo being ruined by an unwanted object or person in the background. With Magic Eraser, You can mark or shade the object you want to delete, and the tool will automatically delete it.

Google Photos is a cloud-based photo and video storage and organization platform. (illustrative image information)

According to the information provided by Google, the process of using Magic Eraser is very simple:

Launch the Google Photos app on your iPhone, sign in to your account if you haven't already, and select the image you want to edit.
Once the photo is open, tap the “Edit” button at the bottom of the screen. This will take you to the editing menu where you will find the “Tools” option. In this menu, search for and select “Magic Eraser”.
Use your finger to highlight or shade the object you want to remove from the image. Magic Eraser uses its artificial intelligence capability to effectively identify and remove the selected item.
Once you're happy with the result, tap “Done” to save the edited image to your Google Photos library.

To use Magic Eraser on iOS devices, your iPhone must have iOS version 15 or higher installed. This ensures that the tool works properly and takes full advantage of the artificial intelligence capabilities offered by Google Photos.

The app will help you ensure that duplicate photos don't appear and are in perfect order. (Google Photos)

Additionally, while most Google Photos features, including Magic Eraser, are available for free, there are limitations for non-Pixel users and non-premium subscribers. These users can edit and save up to 10 images per month using Google's Magic Editor, which includes tools like Magic Eraser.

Those who want to make frequent edits will need to subscribe to Google One, the company's cloud storage service. Provides unlimited access to all advanced photo editing features for one monthly fee.

Ask Photos is an experimental feature that will roll out in the coming months and promises to make it easier to search for memories and specific details in our photo collections. Unlike This tool allows users to ask questions naturally, rather than traditional methods that require typing in keywords and scrolling through multiple results.

The tool learns from the corrections we make so that subsequent results are more accurate. (Google)

For example, instead of searching for “beach 2021,” you could ask “Show the best pictures of our beach trips from the past few years.” Then Gemini's artificial intelligence takes care of the rest and gives us the result we're looking for.

For this tool to work, Google implements a multimodal model that allows it to analyze only visual content, But interpret text and metadata associated with images, such as dates and locations.

That means Ask Photos can understand the context and content of images more deeply.

For example, if you photograph your children's birthday parties each year, ask, “What theme did we use for Lena's birthday?” you ask, and Gemini will analyze the embellishments and other details in the photos to give you an accurate answer.