Average time taken in Generating pic using Apple Image Playground

Hey what I’m seeing on the video looks like how it was when you first try to use Playground and the system is still downloading the AI model data for the AI image generation system.

i can suggest a couple of things to try that might kick the system into re-downloading the data:

ATTEMPT 1] close all apps with the app manager view, then perform a ‘forced reboot’ of the iPad. This is like a reboot but without the normal shutdown. The forced reboot kicks in some extra initialization procedures when the iPad/iphone start up which clears a lot of system glitches and behaviours when an app or the system starts operating with a glitch or flaw.

the forced reboot on the iPad Pro and most new devices is done as follows:

(three button presses, one after the other, with the last button press being kept down until the Apple logo appears)

1. tap volume up
2. tap volume down
3. press and hold the wake/power button on the opposite side of the device, ignoring the prompt to ‘slide to shut down’. Keep holding that button and the screen should hopefully go blank and the Apple logo should appear after about 10 seconds or so of holding that button.
4. Once the apple logo is visible, you can now release the button and wait for the iPad/iPhone to finish powering up.

run the playground app and give it 10 minutes to get its data in order (internet connection needed). if the supporting datasets for image Playground does start downloading, it might not tell you about it and could span about 10 minutes of the data trickling down the internet connection before that glowing blob to actually to come up with images. See if you can get it to draw something.

if that fails….

ATTEMPT 2] Delete the Playground app and download it again from the App Store. (It’s titled ‘Playground‘ in the App in the AppStore, as an app icon and as an app in system settings, rather than ‘image playground’)

On the first run of the freshly downloaded and installed image playground app, let it run unhindered for about 10 minutes with an internet connection. It’s possible that you might see something briefly indicate that it’s downloading something. Hopefully if you leave the app active for a while, things will run as it should.

i’m hoping that on the next update, Apple will make this initialization of the image playground and genmoji generator much more obvious and user friendly, rather than forgetting that the actual experience of general users on the non-beta versions are starting from zero/scratch and not running from previous beta versions that may already have the data installed or parts of the system initialized from testing previous iterations of the pre release versions. I’m hoping that’s the reason why some people, including myself were confused as to why image playground seemed to be taking an eternity or not working at all, when it was actually waiting to access a library of related AI data…

Hey what I’m seeing on the video looks like how it was when you first try to use Playground and the system is still downloading the AI model data for the AI image generation system.

i can suggest a couple of things to try that might kick the system into re-downloading the data:

ATTEMPT 1] close all apps with the app manager view, then perform a ‘forced reboot’ of the iPad. This is like a reboot but without the normal shutdown. The forced reboot kicks in some extra initialization procedures when the iPad/iphone start up which clears a lot of system glitches and behaviours when an app or the system starts operating with a glitch or flaw.

the forced reboot on the iPad Pro and most new devices is done as follows:

(three button presses, one after the other, with the last button press being kept down until the Apple logo appears)

1. tap volume up
2. tap volume down
3. press and hold the wake/power button on the opposite side of the device, ignoring the prompt to ‘slide to shut down’. Keep holding that button and the screen should hopefully go blank and the Apple logo should appear after about 10 seconds or so of holding that button.
4. Once the apple logo is visible, you can now release the button and wait for the iPad/iPhone to finish powering up.

run the playground app and give it 10 minutes to get its data in order (internet connection needed). if the supporting datasets for image Playground does start downloading, it might not tell you about it and could span about 10 minutes of the data trickling down the internet connection before that glowing blob to actually to come up with images. See if you can get it to draw something.

if that fails….

ATTEMPT 2] Delete the Playground app and download it again from the App Store. (It’s titled ‘Playground‘ in the App in the AppStore, as an app icon and as an app in system settings, rather than ‘image playground’)

On the first run of the freshly downloaded and installed image playground app, let it run unhindered for about 10 minutes with an internet connection. It’s possible that you might see something briefly indicate that it’s downloading something. Hopefully if you leave the app active for a while, things will run as it should.

i’m hoping that on the next update, Apple will make this initialization of the image playground and genmoji generator much more obvious and user friendly, rather than forgetting that the actual experience of general users on the non-beta versions are starting from zero/scratch and not running from previous beta versions that may already have the data installed or parts of the system initialized from testing previous iterations of the pre release versions. I’m hoping that’s the reason why some people, including myself were confused as to why image playground seemed to be taking an eternity or not working at all, when it was actually waiting to access a library of related AI data…

About 3 seconds per image generation on iPad M1 processor

Using 4 prompts:

'lime muscle car', 'huge wheels', racetrack', and 'thick white stripe'

(excuse the text I added in the cropped screenshot that is not positioned correctly in the blue rectangle - it decided to move the added text positioning in my saved image🙄)

I JUST REMEMBERED!!!!

the first time you use image generation, nothing much happens because the operating system has to download a pack of data that image playground uses for its imaging AI model. After that’s downloaded, it will run fine.

The data allows the system to do all its AI drawing offline on the device without using the internet. I would also assume that the data might possibly receive updates to improve its ‘skills’…

I hope that helps, if nothing appeared to be getting drawn.

its a pretty silly oversight of Apple to not indicate that the system is awaiting extra data to initialize the image generation system…

I only realized what was going on when I saw some indication of the download occurring in the settings App (possibly in the AI section or a section related to image playground)