Apple’s Image Playground app has been getting not so great reviews. I’ve played with it a little and I will agree it is not great. I’ve gotten some crazy results. However, it isn’t unusable.
This past weekend I was helping a friend with his website. We needed some simple images that he didn’t have photos of. Instead of taking pictures with a camera or searching the internet I pulled up Image Playground.
We only needed simple images like raw steak, eggs, candles and soap, and essential oils.
Here are the results I got:
Those were perfect for what we needed. Then I asked for an image of wool and got this:
Not what I was expecting! A few images down I did get this:
What’s the conclusion of all this? Apple Intelligence still has a long way to go to compete with the other image generators out there. However, in a bind (and with simple image requests) it might just give you what you need.
The biggest problem is not just with the software, but with the competition. Meta and Microsoft’s online offerings are just next level better, and in a rare case for Apple, they either need to make a generational jump in qualify or just… stop.