Image Playground displays "unable to use that description" for every entry?

Seems like the model is hyper restrictive when it comes to intellectual property.

for example, if you select yourself, and then type in something like “warhammer 40k space marine” it won’t let you.

but if you select yourself and type astronaut it will.

Morancr87 wrote:

USA

yes I downloaded Apple Intellegence

yes I updated my phone to 18.2.1

I have an iPhone 16 pro

nothing works. I tried a picture. I tried the suggestions. I did simple description and even a detailed description

Then it's time to contact Apple Support for help. Since you're in the US, call them at: 800-MY-APPLE or visit your closest Apple Store Genius Bar.

I believe it can also be disabled by your organization if this is a work/non-personal computer.

Hello, RickyBallgame!

I had the same problem with the front facing camera pictures, but when I tried with rear facing camera, it seemed to work.

That’s very odd. You should definitely submit a bug report on the iPhone feedback page.

I hope this gets fixed soon!

I have this problem as well, Apple Intelligence was turned on on my M2 Mac mini, but image playground was not returning anything. I looked at the image of the settings for Apple Intelligence and noticed that the examples here had items under the Apple Intelligence category and mine had none. So I used the customer service magic trick. I turned it off and turned it on again. It seems to have loaded something ...

but there is still no description under "Apple Intelligence" now. I wonder if it is loading something in the background and I just can't see it. I'll try again later.

One difference is that it does look like it is synched with my phone as I see a couple of images I generated on my phone in the app on my mac now. Still very strange, but if most people see Apple Intelligence details in settings , the lack of these items is probably part of the problem.

Hello, mi_y_im.

I have the same problem on both M1 and M4 pro Mac Minis.

In the image that you provided, the only thing selected was “Party Hat.” How is Apple Intelligence supposed to know what is going to be wearing the party hat? That’s might be why it says that it is unable to use that description.

If you do try adding something in there, like a person, and it doesn’t work, read lobsterghost1’s post.

I hope this helps!

Reassign the photo library, as Spant Monkey explained in the first page of this discussion. The reply system here is broken, does not assign the thread to the previous conversation, but to the end of the page. Hope it helps.

Also, it seems pretty limited in what photo you select to start with. I continually tried pix with multiple people—but also got that message.

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no help whatsoever - useless program - use adobe firefly, photoshop or illustrator

I have tried everything I can think of, and "Image Playground" does not work as advertised or as I imagined. Unable to use that description comes up even when I load an image, let alone try to create one.

Is there no one that can help?

I have also tried some of the other features of "Apple Intelligence, which are lacking." I will stick with my other apps until something significantly changes.

Sorry, but it is an actual downer not to have things work as described on my Macbook Pro 2016, which is upgraded to the latest version.

Your questions are irrelevant. Nobody could attempt to use AI and get the error OP reported unless they were in an area of the world AI is permitted. Nobody could get the error unless they successfully downloaded the app. Nobody could get the error unless they were on 18.2. Nobody could get the error unless their model of iPhone supported AI.

Kurt Tappe1 wrote:

Your questions are irrelevant. Nobody could attempt to use AI and get the error OP reported unless they were in an area of the world AI is permitted. Nobody could get the error unless they successfully downloaded the app. Nobody could get the error unless they were on 18.2. Nobody could get the error unless their model of iPhone supported AI.

They are NOT irrelevant. The person I responded to said they had Image Playground, but now they don't AND they went to the App Store to look for it, but it wasn't there. My questions were perfectly appropriate for this user. Maybe check who a response was geared towards, before you come out guns blazing.

USA

yes I downloaded Apple Intellegence

yes I updated my phone to 18.2.1

I have an iPhone 16 pro

nothing works. I tried a picture. I tried the suggestions. I did simple description and even a detailed description

UnformedNumber wrote:

Can you make this a reply to my post so I get proper credit? ;-)

1. People replying to your post doesn't give you any sort of credit. Only people upvoting your post does.
2. Asking for points is prohibited in this forum.
3. Spant Monkey, the person to whom VernNYC was replying, gave the same answer first.

I've experienced some of the problems noted in this post. But, inputting digital files from my archives has not been a problem at all. What I have noticed is that typing in text is a non-starter. I'm using the Mac Studio M1 but it's updated to Sequoia 15.3. I'm getting 7 to 9 caricatures each time but occasionally, I get the image rejection & undo symbol. I don't quite know why. I've gone back and cropped a number of rejected photos even closer in the portrait format and some worked the second time and some did not. I'll have to research a bit more. But what I did notice is that the Image Playground files that were generated are HEIC files which I have to pull into Photos, select and export in the jpeg or tiff format to an external folder and then return the converted files to the Photos library. And I have to erase the HEIC files in the Photos Library before the jpeg files will import. On top of all of that, I tried to post the jpeg files on my social media page and FB rejects the entire post with a banner "We couldn't post this. Tap for more info". Never seen that before. Even when I checked the link below the photos indicating that they are AI generated, the post was still rejected. I don't know if the files are embedded with a code that identifies them as AI generated but with these social media platform changes, it a high possibility they are just rejecting the files. This photo is an output from a photo I took years ago of legendary singer Dionne Warwick. It was one of the better results. Maybe this beta isn't ready yet.