# Artificial Analysis finds Apple's ADM 3 Cloud strongest at editing photos

> Original title: ADM 3 Cloud edits a photo better than it makes one from scratch

- Source: Artificial Analysis
- Published: 2026-11-11T17:30:22.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/bmyh5qqhejhwzpf4xskimjits
- Original: https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2120569838993293647

## Summary

Artificial Analysis says Apple's ADM 3 Cloud, which powers photo editing in Photos and Image Playground, is strongest at swapping and changing elements in a photo. Its clean-ups and fixes rank a little below its overall position, reframing is its weakest area, and generating images from scratch is weaker still. Apple refused 8% of the firm's prompts, and it evaluated the model only on the images it returned.

## Post

ADM 3 Cloud edits a photo better than it makes one from scratch

ADM 3 Cloud is Apple's new image model on Private Cloud Compute. It shipped with iOS 27 on September 14 and powers the photo editing tools in Photos, like Spatial Reframing, plus Image Playground and Genmoji.

In our testing, it's strongest at swapping and changing things in a photo. Clean-ups and fixes land a little below its overall rank, and reframing a shot is its weak spot. Making images from scratch is weaker again.

It's available through Apple Intelligence on iPhone 15 Pro and later, and on M1 or later iPads and Macs, with daily usage limits.

With no API, we tested it through a Mac app we built on Image Playground. Apple refused 8% of our prompts. We evaluated it on only the images it returned.