The photo Cleanup tool on iOS 27 has had a major update. It can do so much more than just removing tiny things in the background. Now, in fact, this photo was full of people until I used the Cleanup tool to make it look like this. Let’s dig in, and I’ll show you how this works and give you some tips to make the most of this feature.

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Okay, I’ve got this photo of my dad at work, and at the moment there are loads of people in the background I want to try and get rid of. I want the focal point to be him and the parrots. So, what I’m going to do is tap onto the Edit button on the photo, and then go onto Tools and choose Cleanup.

So far, exactly the same as iOS 26, but this is when things start to get interesting. At the top, we can choose the quality level of our work. I’m going to go on High Quality. It means it’ll take a little bit longer, but it’ll do a far better result. And then we can start circling things, just like before, with Cleanup.

If you get close to the subject of your picture, you’ll notice you’re now circling behind that subject. So all the people here, I’m circling behind, I’m not circling my dad. And now we can select multiple different objects at the same time before we start the Cleanup process. I’m going to go and select all of the people in the background in my picture.

And now when I’ve done that, I can tap onto Clean Up at the bottom. It’ll take a moment or two, especially on High Quality mode, but already you can see the difference. It hasn’t done a perfect job, but that means I can then circle those people again. And when I’m happy, I can press Clean Up one more time.

Now that picture is so much better. The background is pretty much empty, and it’s even restored things like the wall and the glass behind my dad. That’s the new photo Cleanup tool in iOS 27. And there are loads more cool little features hidden in this update. So, please do subscribe and then check out this video next.