The iPhone has so many clever and fun little features that it’s easy to miss some of them. One of the more unusual features to appear in recent years is the ability to move the subject of a photo away from the background so you can use it elsewhere — whether you’re sharing it in an email, pasting it into a photo editing app, or even turning it into an iMessage sticker in iOS – at 17.
What’s particularly fascinating about this is that it seems like such a simple thing to do — and Apple makes it really easy — but there’s a ton of number crunching going on under the hood to make it happen. This means you’ll need an iPhone with a relatively modern processor, but the good news is that it doesn’t have to be the latest and greatest iPhone 15 Pro. While the incredibly powerful A17 Pro chip in Apple’s flagship smartphone certainly helps with this, the feature can be used on any iPhone with an A12 Bionic chip or higher, going all the way back to 2018’s iPhone XS and iPhone XR.
You’ll need at least iOS 16 on your iPhone to pull this off, or iOS 17 if you want to turn the item into a sticker. What’s great, though, is that while it’s an extension of Apple’s Visual Look Up feature that lets you get more information about things like pets and flowers (and now even food and laundry tags in iOS 17), it doesn’t works only with these objects. Your iPhone can select almost any subject in a photo, from people and animals to household appliances and coffee mugs. What’s more, the photos don’t even have to be taken with your iPhone; you can lift the subject from almost any image in your photo library, even screenshots from your favorite TV shows and games or even old black and white photos you scanned into your photo library years ago.
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How to create and copy a photo cutout
The easiest way to use this feature is to copy the subject of the photo to your system clipboard. You can paste it into any other app that supports images, such as Messages, Mail, Notes, or your favorite photo editor.
Step 1: Open the appropriate image in the Photos app on your iPhone.
Step 2: Touch and hold the subject of the photo until a glowing outline appears around it.
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Step 3: Release your finger. A context menu should appear.
Step 4: Choose Copy. The selected item is copied to your clipboard.
Step 5: Open another app and paste the contents of the clipboard as you would any other image. Only the subject of the photo will be pasted.
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How to share a crop photo in another app
If you just want to share the subject of a photo via a messaging app or social media, you can skip the clipboard and do it directly via the iOS 17 sharing table.
Step 1: Open the appropriate image in the Photos app on your iPhone.
Step 2: Touch and hold the subject of the photo until a glowing outline appears around it.
Step 3: Release your finger. A context menu should appear.
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Step 4: Choose Share. The iOS Share dialog box appears.
Step 5: Choose where you want to share your chosen topic. The selected app opens as it would for sharing any other photo, but only the subject of the image appears.
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How to copy a photo crop using drag and drop
It’s also possible to copy the subject of an image by dragging it from the Photos app to a third-party app that supports drag and drop. This works with most built-in apps like Mail, Messages, Notes, and Reminders. It’s also handy when working with third-party photo editors.
Step 1: Open the appropriate image in the Photos app on your iPhone.
Step 2: Touch and hold the subject of the photo until a glowing outline appears.
Step 3: Start moving your finger without lifting it. You should see a copy of the subject you drag from the photo.
Step 4: Continue holding your finger on the image while using your other finger to swipe up from the bottom of the iPhone screen to return to the home screen.
Step 5: Keep holding your finger on the image, and open the app you want to drop the image with your other finger.
Step 6: In the target app, drag the image to where you want to paste it and remove your finger to drop it into place.
What happens next will depend on the application. Photo editors will usually add the subject image as a new layer that you can move, resize and edit in the same way as any other image. Dropping an image into a messaging or social media app will paste it into a new post. If the target application does not support pasting images, nothing will happen and the subject will be discarded.
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How to create an iMessage sticker from a photo cutout
A fun new feature in iOS 17 lets you create your own iMessage stickers from your photos. The same method for copying and sharing an object can now be used to turn it into a sticker right from your Photos app. Here’s how.
Step 1: In the Photos app on your iPhone, open the image you want to turn into a sticker.
Step 2: Touch and hold the subject of the photo until a glowing outline appears.
Step 3: Release your finger and a context menu should appear.
Step 4: Choose Add a sticker. The Stickers dialog box will appear and your subject will be dropped into the top slot. Depending on your iPhone model, this may take a few seconds. When it appears, a context menu will appear above the new label
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Step 5: To move the sticker to another location in your collection, select Rearrange, touch and hold the sticker and drag it to a new position. When you’re done, tap anywhere in the sticker window to exit edit mode.
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Step 6: You can also add an effect to your new sticker right away by selecting it Add an effect from the context menu. Your patient will appear with five effect options available — Original (no effect), Outline, Comic, Puffy, and Shiny. Select the one you want to preview and select Done when you are satisfied.
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Step 7: When you’re done customizing your new sticker, select x in the upper right corner of the Stickers dialog box to close it. You’ll find your new sticker waiting for you in the Messages app whenever you want to use it.
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