Apple’s New iOS 16 Photo Feature Is Straight-Up Magic

In my use, the feature is remarkably good at grabbing the subject or subjects of any given photo. Even in photos with harsh lightning and/or with two or three subjects together in a row, iOS 16 manages to wrangle the group together into one, liftable cutout. Sometimes it takes some trial and error to find the right part of the photo to press in order to trigger the feature, and other times, you might need to zoom in on the subject to give iOS enough to work with, true.

And when the photo presents a clear subject and background, this feature is so easy, it’s basically magic. While there are plenty of awesome quality-of-life improvements in iOS 16, some of them even hidden, this addition is the kind of thing big software updates are all about.