

With photos, you can also pinch with two fingers to zoom in or out of the image to get it lined up perfectly. Swipe left and right to make visual adjustments – depending on the type of wallpaper you’ve chosen, this will either cycle through filters or change the design.

Here you can make some tweaks to your chosen design. Pick anything you like, and you can then customize it further… Customizations Read our tip about everything new on the Lock Screen for more on how that works. Note that photos with a clear subject can be layered so they appear “above” the clock on the Lock Screen. The choices are fairly self-explanatory: Photos allows you to choose from your camera roll, Emoji lets you design a pattern using emojis, etc. In iOS 16, Visual Look Up lets you lift that object out of a photo or PDF by doing nothing more than tapping and holding.Here, you can choose from a library of preset designs, or tap one of the icons at the top to create your own. Technically, the tap-and-lift photo feature is part of Visual Look Up, which was first launched with iOS 15 and can recognize objects in your photos such as plants, food, landmarks and even pets.

But what's great about this tool is that it's built right into iOS 16 eliminating the need to download a special app or setup an account. Before iOS 16, if I wanted to remove a photo's background, I would need to use an app like Adobe Photoshop. IOS 16 debuted alongside the iPhone 14 line with a number of cool new features. If you keep holding, you can then "lift" the cutout from the photo and drag it into another app to post, share or make a collage, for example. All you need to do is tap and hold on a photo to make it work. The tool doesn't have an official name, but lets you separate a picture's subject, like a person, from the background.

If you have an iPhone that runs iOS 16, you have to try out one of the best new features. This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2023, CNET's collection of news, tips and advice around Apple's most popular product.
