X has a barely extra practical photograph editor now

X is rolling out an update to its in-app photograph editor that offers customers the flexibility to edit pictures with xAI’s Grok, blur faces and overlay textual content on photographs. The brand new enhancing options, specifically the addition of text-based edits by way of an AI assistant, deliver it a lot nearer in capabilities to devoted photograph apps like Google Pictures.

As a part of the replace, customers are capable of immediate Grok to make edits to a photograph simply by typing out what they need to see. The instance video shared by Nikita Bier, X’s Head of Product, confirmed a picture being edited in order that it seemed to be hanging in a museum, however easier tweaks are presumably attainable, too. The characteristic is just like the “conversational editing” Google added to Google Pictures in September 2025, the place customers can immediate Gemini to regulate the background of a picture or make different edits. X’s new editor additionally consists of instruments for blurring or redacting elements of a picture, drawing on photographs and overlaying textual content.

X used to take a much more freewheeling strategy to enhancing pictures with Grok, by permitting any person to answer to a submit tagging the AI assistant and requesting an edit. After customers reportedly generated millions of sexualized images utilizing the characteristic, together with a few of youngsters, X limited Grok’s picture producing skills to paying subscribers and eliminated the AI’s means to create photographs of actual individuals in bikinis, underwear and different suggestive clothes.

xAI, the mum or dad firm of X, is presently the defendant in a class action lawsuit from three youngsters who allege their pictures have been used to create baby exploitation materials with Grok. X can also be being investigated within the European Union over comparable studies that its platform was used to create nonconsensual sexual photographs.

X’s up to date photograph editor is accessible on iOS now and coming to Android “quickly,” in keeping with the corporate.