Change a Photo’s Angle with Reframe in iOS 27

One of the new photo editing tools in iOS 27 is called Reframe. And quite honestly, it's a little bit crazy how this works, and I can't decide yet if I really like it or if I really hate it. But I thought I'd show you how it works, and then you can make your own mind up.

So, Reframe will let you take a photograph that you've taken already, and it will let you change the perspective of where the camera was after it's been taken, which means you can make the camera higher, you can rotate it, you can go around the side, and AI will change your photo to match your new perspective. So, let's dig in and we'll see how it works.

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So, for this demo, I've got a photo of a baby flamingo called Jude, along with some of his family in the background. And I want to change the perspective of the photo. So, rather than looking down on Jude, I want to be looking up at him a little bit more, and perhaps from a slight angle as well.

To do this, I'm going to tap onto Edit in the Photos app, and then go onto Tools at the bottom and choose Reframe. Now, it'll take a moment for Photos to analyse your picture, and you'll see a little coloured wash going over it while that's happening. But then we can use our fingers to change the picture on screen, and you get a kind of low-res version of that preview.

I can use one finger to pan and tilt up and down, left and right. I can use two fingers to zoom in or zoom out. And I can also use two fingers to rotate the picture if I wanted to. We can completely change the angle and the perspective using these finger shortcuts.

Don't worry if the preview doesn't look great on screen, because when you finish positioning it and you tap on here, it's then going to go and analyse that picture, and it's going to fill in all the detail for you using AI.

As I said before, sometimes I hate this feature, sometimes I love it. When I'm looking at a person or a human face and I try and reposition it, that's when it goes a little bit weird sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes. But for this picture of my flamingos, you can see it's actually done a really good job. It's made all the flamingos in the background look really crisp and sharp, and it's repositioned Jude at the front, so I'm looking up at him slightly more.

And then if you tap on the screen, you can see the before, and when you let go, you can see the after, to see how the picture's changed using the Reframe tool.

If you're happy, you can press Done, and you can save this, and then you can edit it like any other photo.

So that's the Reframe tool in iOS 27, but there are loads of other features hidden in this update. So, please do subscribe and then check out this QuickTip next.