Turn sketches into 'art'

Master Apple's new AI image tool in the Notes app.

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Leander Kahney
April 25, 2025

A new AI image-making tool that you might have missed is built right into your iPhone’s increasingly capable Notes app.

Called Image Wand, the new tool will transform your rough, hand-drawn sketches into generative AI artwork.

Scribble a picture of your dog, and Image Wand will conjure up an AI image of your sketch. Image Wand also works with text prompts (just like Image Playground, which the new tool is based upon).

The results are, well, absolutely horrible!

But Image Wand is fun to play around with, and perhaps you can find a good everyday use for it.

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— Leander Kahney, EIC.

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— Steve Jobs, 2006.

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