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I updated my OS on 10/31/24 to the lates update (Sequoia 15.1) and now the photos app on my Mac no longer contains the retouch tool. WTH!! Does anyone else have this issue? Apple, what gives??
iMac 24″, macOS 15.1
This is an absolutely crazy move by Apple. That brush is one of the most useful and important tools in Photos. If anything, it needed enhancing with clone options, not removing entirely. The Clean Up tab is cumbersome and not the same tool. If I need to remove a spec, I can't do that with Clean Up.
Apple, please bring back the brush!!!!
Luckily I did not yet update my MacBook Pro and I won't do that so I can manage my fixes there. I am not confient Apple will bring the touch-up tool back. Apple simply doesn't care about user utility. I don't know if anyone here remembers when Apple shut down Aperture cold. This was a disaster for thousands and thousands of hobby and semi-pro photographers like me with huge libraries and thousands of hours editing in Aperture. It resulted in a huge uproar online and in the press .. but Apple just said GFY and Aperture were gone. Here, they decided AI is the future so these tools are no longer needed. So ... GFY users.
Totally crazy I agree! I use it for removing small specks or big areas, and remove wrinkles, etc. They could have added the new one and leave retouch alone. Who do they talk to when making this big changes!? wow!
According to your description, you're using Clean Up on your iPhone (iOS) and we're all complaining the retouch tool is gone from macOS after Sequoia 15.1 update. Although the objetive is similar, the approach is quite different as well as the expected results.
I waited until 15.1 was released to avoid the initial bugs and complaints, but unfortunately I discovered the same only after I upgraded last weekend. I tried Clean Up many, many times, but it's really really awful. Such a weird move from Apple looks so crazy because many photography communities buy Apple hardware exactly to enjoy native apps like Photos (including me). Unless I'm getting too old in digital photography, I can't think of any serious photographer or expert advising Apple on this. At least at this point, AI should be welcomed as an additional help for beginners, but never as a replacement of a very important tool to all enthusiasts and professionals. One of the possible ways to have AI getting along is to learn the patterns of how we individually use each tool and try to repeat it when asked, but never cutting our "natural arm" by replacing it with a "cyber alternative" without any way back. Let's wait and hope they fix it on 15.2.
I just received this after I posted here agreeing with everyone what a mistake Apple made removing the essential feature in Photos: Retouch.
"We’ve removed your post Apple retouch tool gone after update to Sequioa 15.1because it contained either feedback or a feature request that was not constructive."
There was nothing I wrote that was different, offensive or triggering than the other posts here. Perhaps because I used the words d*mb*st and j*ke and an all caps wh*. Apple is watching.
You missed the conversation. Clean up is not a replacement for retouch. It doesn't do the same thing. It's for erasing parts of a picture that you don't want. It won't clean up blemishes and skin tones.
I went to Apple's product feedback page and left a comment. I encourage users to do this so that hopefully they get the message.
Illini74 wrote: Apple, PLEASE
We are not Apple. If you would like to make suggestions to Apple, go here:
I have.
Apple, PLEASE bring back the Retouch tool, nothing that's been added with the clean up function remotely does the job Retouch did to clean up blemishes on photos.
Can you confirm the name of the free app you downloaded? If so, can you share the link? I can't find any MORAVI, but a paid app called MOVAVI.
ive just given feedback too..... PLEASE EVERYBODY DO THIS!!!! what a blunder taking away the retouch tool
please bring back the retouching brush in photos. I wanted to soften wrinkles etc but impossible to do now. yikes. how is clean up an improvement?
I can confirm that the retouch tool has been deleted with the 15.1 update. I stupidly updated my Studio without waiting for news of problems like this. The Clean Up feature (a completely useless gimmick that no serious photographer would ever use) is no substitute for the retouch feature. I am in the middle of scanning old slides and the retouch feature is needed to eliminate dust artifacts. As a work-around, I have fired up an old Mac running Catalina but it doesn't have the processing power to really do the job. I find this move by Apple completely inexplicable. If this is not fixed in the next few weeks, I will have to switch to Lightroom. The Mac community needs to spread the word about this colossal blunder by Apple.
This is helpful. I am starting to investigate plug in solutions as I really don’t want to migrate my whole library from Photos.
Done! I just posted the same complaint. Hope it helps!
Apple retouch tool gone after update to Sequioa 15.1
