Generating AI images on your mobile phone

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Generating AI images on your mobile phone
You can now use Microsoft's keyboard app to generate AI images on your phone - it's great fun! Sadly you can only do this on Android for now (although you can use lots of other good AI features of the app on IPhones).

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 September 2023

Want to get your point over in a WhatsApp message, a text or an instant message? A picture paints a thousand words ...

What does an owl roller-skating actually look like? This!

One massive caveat: although you can use the SwiftKey app on an iPhone, and use this to generate AI letters and emails, iOS doesn't seem to allow you to generate images. This ZdNet blog seems to confirm that this feature isn't supported for iPhones yet.

To get this to work, first install the SwiftKey app and follow the instructions to make this your default keyboard and to connect to Microsoft. Then start typing a message!

While typing a message, click on the emoji key on your SwiftKey keyboard:

There are probably other ways to access the AI image generator tool too.

Now click on the tool to create an image, and type in text describing it:

The image creation tool only takes a few seconds to run.

You can now choose a picture to send!

Slightly offended that the AI tool didn't incorporate our logo, but the one on the right is exactly what I want to convey

Many thanks to Simon Ranson (again!) for bringing my attention to this. Slightly more reluctant thanks to Katy (our middle daughter) for letting me use her phone, as I then got these suggestions: