I'll show you how to cut out and/or copy subjects from photos like this in one simple step on
iPhone. That means you can lift a subject from the background then you can drag and drop that
subject directly into another app, for example using iMessage, WhatsApp and email and more.
Or once you remove the background from an iPhone photo, you can simply copy the subject, change to
another app and later paste it in. This works with a new or old photo from your camera roll and I'll
also show you how you can do this with any photo on the internet. You can then get creative and
play with these photo cutouts in something like Canva or even make your own stickers to put into
iMessage or WhatsApp. So let's get into it. So to start with, just go to your photos app and select
a photo that you've got maybe yourself in. And all you need to do is just tap and hold on the subject
and you can see it's highlighted it from the background and you've got options to copy to the
clipboard or you can share straight to you know any of these things as you see fit straight away
or you can do something cool which you'll show in a sec but first of all you'll notice that
when you keep this highlighted that you see this flashy outline around the outside which shows
you which is the subject or which parts of the subject are going to be able to be removed from
the background so I can tap and hold on this and then put it straight into for example an email
straight away just like that so that's pretty cool not the most perfect of jobs here with removing it
from the background but that's quite zoomed in so you can get the idea another thing you might like
to do is instead of dragging and dropping you can just tap and hold make it so it highlights
out of the background press copy and then I can paste that say directly straight into an
email just like that or for example just paste it into a message like so there you go so this
works with multiple people in a photo as well you can see there's a couple of sports stars that uh
I like to support and you can see it's highlighting around the edge of the three of
us together like that so I can copy that out and then once again put it straight into my notes app
so I can save these for later if I want
so I can then copy that again and that is on demand that's that sticker style image now
be mindful that if your photo is a live photo once you tap and hold you need to do just a
short press otherwise if you do a long press it will go into the actual live video and you
won't copy that subject so just do that short press do your copy and then you'll be able to
paste that in just like so note that you also won't be able to do the drag and drop thing
you'll have to come up here turn off live and then it behaves just like it did before where you can
drag and drop just like before again we've got the uh lovely touch here and the way this works is it
actually just looks at firstly it looks for people or animals or things like that that stand out from
the background that it recognizes as a person or an animal but it also looks at the contrast
between the background image and the foreground image so in the foreground you can see that
there's some hard lines around the edges of our head and shirts and skin and then the background's
green so it's quite easy for the app to do that so again I can copy that and then paste it wherever
I want as I said before this works for old photos new photos or any photo in fact you can even use
photos from Safari so let's just open that one up and here's a photo of the Game of Thrones cast and
um with this though once you tap and hold it doesn't give you that special outline
that it's done before so but rather in Safari you can see you can copy the subject here so now when
I go into my notes app and try and paste that in you can see that once again it's taken out
the background and cut out the subjects from the photo there beautiful you can do this using other
browsers however when you tap and hold on the photo you don't get the option at the moment to
copy subject so what you need to do is save the image to your camera roll and then open it from
inside your camera roll once that's open you can tap and hold and here's my kite surfing image and
you can see that it's highlighting the subject as well as the kite notice that there are some small
lines connecting the kite to the rider here but it won't actually pick this up in the copy and
paste as you can see when we paste that into the app the kite lines are missing so it's a bit of
a quick and nasty way of getting the subject taken away from the background but it does a pretty good
job some other things you might like to do with this is use canva you can do some quite creative
things here like I've got a cartoon of a beach here and I can just paste in myself like so and
put myself on the beach like that let's even put a dog in there why not
cartoon dog
let's grab that guy and Chuck him in
great now I've got myself a giant dog at the beach I can save that
and add that to my photos like so and there's a photo you can even make stickers which you can
then paste into WhatsApp or iMessage to spice up your group chats so we can just paste the image
in resize and let's add a little bit of text here go with maybe cartoon um let's go with good idea
okay that's all right
resize that save the sticker and now I can just add that to WhatsApp
for example I now want to go into WhatsApp so it Imports the sticker pack and once I
save that then now when I want to add a sticker I can tap this one and then here's my sticker pack
boom hit that good idea done get the idea about the creativity you can have with making stickers
didn't quite send the perfect photo or message on iMessage we'll watch this video next to learn how
to edit or unsend messages on iPhone it came with iOS 16 and if you're not already using
it you're missing out on a great feature so click that now and I'll see you there