According to this weekend’s Power On newsletter , Apple’s image generation models – used in Genmoji and Image Playground – will be receiving a ‘big boost’ in visual quality. Currently, they’re far from anything to write home about. We’ve recently heard that Apple will be implementing new suggested Genmoji based on your photo library and other key details – but that won’t be the only upgrade coming to Genmoji this year. According to Mark Gurman , Apple’s models will be receiving a ‘big boost’ in visual quality: I’ve also reported that Apple is preparing to support third-party AI models — beyond OpenAI’s ChatGPT — for image creation in the redesigned Image Playground app in iOS 27. It turns out, I’m now told, there’s a little more to the story: Apple’s own models for Genmoji and Image Playground have been improved, so quality is getting a big boost this year. When Image Playground and Genmoji debuted in iOS 18.2, the image fidelity was certainly far from impressive.…