How to delete Image playground from my iMac M3 and MacBook Air M1?

The app appears before you opt in and can't be deleted. It's the U2 album all over again

I too would like to know this. I understand that Apple likes to include fun little applications that show of their new features, like Photo Booth when the iSight camera was integrated into the iMac, but this AI stuff if God awful. You can tell when an image or text is AI generated, which is making everyone's voice the same. Originality and personality are a thing of the past. When it's not making us all the same, the information it gives is wrong, so I'd like to scrub this fad from all devices.

I'd like to do the same, like native apple apps on MacOS, it doesn't seem possible.

I actually don't mind the additional software.

I would probably not use it,

But - why give it such an image ? The vision of a big eyed kitten is actually nauseating, & offends me.

It looks so dodgy, like a Far-East IT infection upon my well maintained Apple Mac.

I just cannot trust it. I've tried to remove it, I have tried to hide it, it is just yuck

GeoffDeGeoff666 wrote:

The app appears before you opt in and can't be deleted. It's the U2 album all over again

Um, not really. True the U2 album, which Apple initially gave to everyone, thinking it would be taken as a gift, couldn't be removed. Then when people complained, Apple let the album be removed. But the album wasn't built into the OS. It was just deposited, free of charge into our music apps. That's a big difference.

To this day, the album remains in my Library. I like U2 and appreciated the free gift. Some however, got their knickers in a knot over a free album. Go figure.

Apparently you can remove Image Playground from your iPhone and iPad, but not your Mac. Since this is a user to user only forum, we can't explain why, but my guess is it's built into the Apple Intelligence bundle on your Mac and isn't removable. If you don't have a need to use it, just don't use it, seems the simplest thing to do.

You can provide feedback to Apple here --> Product Feedback - Apple

Submit the feedback for macOS Sequoia.

It does not allow copy and paste, images all in the same style. Free online tools allows MUCH better results than this. I just like Apple to stop add apps that I cannot remove. We all should have freedom to chose what apps we allow on computers we own.

ifbenthen wrote:

I too would like to know this. I understand that Apple likes to include fun little applications that show of their new features, like Photo Booth when the iSight camera was integrated into the iMac, but this AI stuff if God awful. You can tell when an image or text is AI generated, which is making everyone's voice the same. Originality and personality are a thing of the past. When it's not making us all the same, the information it gives is wrong, so I'd like to scrub this fad from all devices.

If you don't want to use any of the Apple Intelligence features on your device, that is certainly your choice. Simply don't opt-in to Apple Intelligence. There problem solved.

Personally, I'm really enjoying the new features. I find Image Playground fun. I was already using ChatGPT on my iPhone, so the new integration with Siri, makes Siri infinitely more useful. The writing tools really help if I've written something I'd like to rewrite at the tap of a button. But again, none of these features are being forced on you, if you don't want them. Apple Intelligence is OPT-IN ONLY. So don't opt-in.

I can copy and paste using Image Playground. I opened an Image I created in Image Playground and right clicked on it and it offered copy, then I pasted it into a text message. Now, I can't copy and paste the same image into this forum, as the forum requires specific formatting, like JPEG for example.

But to your point that you should have the option to remove Image Playground, I'm sure there are loads of things on your device you don't use, which you can't remove. That's how operating systems work. There are things in Windows, which can't be removed.

clement_59 wrote:

I actually don't mind the additional software.

I would probably not use it,

But - why give it such an image ? The vision of a big eyed kitten is actually nauseating, & offends me.

It looks so dodgy, like a Far-East IT infection upon my well maintained Apple Mac.

I just cannot trust it. I've tried to remove it, I have tried to hide it, it is just yuck

You may be the only person I've met who thinks an image of a kitten is nauseating and offensive. You can make some of the people happy some of the time. You can make some of the people unhappy some of the time, but you can't make ALL of the people happy ALL of the time.

If it's really so incredibly objectionable to you, place the app icon in a folder on your Mac. It will be less obvious that way.

You can't remove it. You can't hide it.

But it can be removed from the iPad and the iPhone. So they need to fix it and allow it to be removed from the iMac as well.

Also, why can’t I remove native apps I don’t use they just take up space and are pointless.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

Yes, you are correct, I was thinking iPhone.

Whether it's a Mac, iPhone or iPad, I still don't see what's archaic about it? Most people just don't read past the first post anyway.

Archaic according to Websters Dictionary:

1: having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses

an archaic word

Note: In this dictionary the label archaic is affixed to words and senses relatively common in earlier times but infrequently used in present-day English.

2: of, relating to, or characteristic of an earlier or more primitive time : antiquated

archaic legal traditions

3: capitalized : of or belonging to the early or formative phases of a culture or a period of artistic development

especially : of or belonging to the period leading up to the classical period of Greek culture

4: surviving from an earlier period

specifically : typical of a previously dominant evolutionary stage

5: capitalized : of or relating to the period from about 8000 b.c. to 1000 b.c. and the North American cultures of that time

GeoffDeGeoff666 wrote:

Further to add this is not an issue exclusive to Apple.

Microsoft do it on their platform Google do it on their platform even Samsung do it if you buy one of their phones.

providers need to get over the fact that they think we need to use all the software if we don’t use it we should be able to delete it. It just wastes space on the devices we have paid for.

I get what you want. But this forum isn't Apple Support. It is a user to user only forum and Apple isn't here, nor are they reading these posts for feedback. As such, no one here can give you what you want. So asking for it here, will get you nothing.

Feel free to tell Apple what you want here --> Product Feedback - Apple

And you are right, every software company you mention, builds things into the Operating Systems you cannot remove. Apple is no different and it's likely not going to change, unless of course, you have enough money to buy these tech companies and you can change how they manage their operating systems.