131 | 5 Questions to Ask Before You Use AI on Your Photos

AI can edit, restore and even help manage your photos, often for free and often without you even realising that you are using AI. But just because you can change a photo, should you? In this episode I share the five questions I ask myself before I let AI change a photo (which I kind of hardly ever do). I start with a very personal one: the last photo of me and my granddad, where my eyes are closed. I also share what happened when I tested AI restoration on an old photo of my brothers from the 1970s. There is no single right answer here... but there is your answer.

In this episode:

• The difference between fixing a photo and changing the story it tells.
• What AI does well and where it goes wrong.
• Why a photo that shows its age may not need fixing at all.
• How a change you make today could confuse your family in fifty years.
• Why AI is great at finding duplicates and blurry photos, but cannot know what a photo means to you.
• Two simple habits that keep you in control when you do use AI.

Mentioned in this episode:

The iOS 27 and Apple Photos series, Episodes 128 to 130

What would you do with the photo of me and my granddad? Would you open my eyes, or leave it as it is? Tell me in the comments, I would love to know. And if you’d like to see the before and after comparison, make sure you’ve subscribed to my newsletter, I’ll share the pictures there.

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