While iOS 26 is relatively light in terms of Apple Intelligence upgrades, Image Playground was one of the few apps that received a worthwhile enhancement. Here’s how.
iOS 26 brings new styles to the Image Playground application.
iOS 26 brings new styles to the Image Playground application.
On June 9, at its annual Worldwide Developers’ Conference, Apple unveiled its latest assortment of operating systems, all of which feature the company’s new design language known as Liquid Glass. The software updates, which were rolled out as developer betas on Monday, introduced only a handful of Apple Intelligence upgrades, and they largely build upon the features introduced in 2024.
There’s a new Foundation Models framework that lets developers use Apple Intelligence tools for third-party apps, Visual Intelligence now works with screenshots, and Shortcuts were made more useful than ever. Image Playground received a similarly useful enhancement at WWDC 2025, in the form of more image styles, powered by ChatGPT.