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We’re coming up to that time of year when all of Apple's new software features are due to be announced. The company will host its annual Worldwide Developer Conference over a week, starting on 8 June, with a keynote on the first day.

This is when Apple will reveal some of the features coming to iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, along with AirPods, Apple TV and Vision Pro. Following a name change last year, the new software coming to iPhone later this year is expected to be called iOS 27 and the latest report suggests there could be some exciting new photo features included.

What new photo editing features could be coming?

According to Bloomberg, (via 9to5Mac), there will be three editing features coming to the Photos app with iOS 27 under a new “Apple Intelligence Tools” section. It’s claimed these three features will include Extend, Enhance and Reframe, and all will apparently enable you to make changes to your pictures within a “few seconds”.

The Bloomberg report claims that “Extend” will let you “generate additional image content beyond the original frame”. Going into more detail with an example, it says that "someone could take a close-up photo of a landmark and use the tool to fill in surrounding scenery".

Meanwhile, the Enhance feature will use AI to improve the quality of the image, while also focusing on lighting and colour aspects. Lastly, Reframe is claimed to allow users to “shift perspective” of spatial photos.

Before you get too excited though, the Bloomberg report also said that development of the new photo editing features “hadn’t gone entirely smoothly”, adding that the Extend and Reframe tools “don’t perform reliably during internal testing”.

The report added that this could result in Apple delaying or scaling them back.

Nothing is official for now, of course, but adding these kinds of image editing features to the Photos app will be a big win for users who don’t have access to photo editing software like Photoshop.