What is Apple's Image Playground app for and how do you use it?

Apple’s image generation tool got some noteworthy updates this fall. What is Apple’s Image Playground app for and how do you use it. It’s the kind of image that you can’t find in the legion of emoji on your phone, or hiding in your photo library — an angry avocado, or a picture of you and that friend on the moon when you’ve never even been out of the city together.

In times like these, you might turn to an AI image generator to meet your needs. For those in the Apple ecosystem, one option is firing up the Image Playground app as a quick way of creating an image that can be customized, saved and even used as a Genmoji in the future. (Genmoji are personalized emoji you can make using Apple Intelligence.) If you haven’t used the app, odds are it’s already your phone.

Apple initially launched Image Playground in December 2024.