This Galaxy S25 Feature Will Make You Question Everything
Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event had a whole lot of time devoted to Galaxy AI. Which first debuted last year on the Galaxy S24 series and eventually trickled down to older devices. Now with the Galaxy S25 series, Samsung has debuted a few more features and improved others, including Object Eraser.
Object Eraser actually lives within the Generative Edit feature, it allows you to circle objects to remove, make larger/smaller or move around. It has worked pretty well in the past. But now on the Galaxy S25, the results are mind-blowing. We first saw TikToker Parker Burton’s post on X about how well it works to remove an entire hand from in front of his face. Since then, we’ve seen many others doing the same thing, including yours truly.
I took a photo of my hand covering my entire face, you could really only see the side of my face and my chin. Galaxy AI was able to recreate my face, almost perfectly. Galaxy AI did make the bottom part of my glasses frame a bit thicker than in real life, but that’s just nitpicking at this point.
How is Galaxy AI able to do this?
Of course, the first response here is going to be, it has your face data from facial recognition or other selfies. And it’s true, Samsung might be using that, or rather Google. This is essentially Magic Editor from the Pixel, now on the Galaxy S25 series. We don’t know for sure, but that is the only thing that makes sense. Even though, I did this test on the Galaxy S25 Plus, which I never used facial recognition on, and never took a selfie on. So if it is using older pictures of me, it would be getting it from Google Photos.
AI is getting scary good, Google has already created some rather cool features with AI in its cameras. Though, I believe that Samsung has made more practical features with it, like erasing things. Or using AI to remove background audio in videos. Being able to erase objects is definitely more useful than putting yourself in the picture you took with Google’s “Add Me” feature.
This is why I’m very happy that Samsung does add an AI-Generated watermark to the corner of every picture it creates, or edits. Though it is easy to crop out, it is also in the metadata. But at least we can easily see that this was edited with AI, versus thinking that this is real.
Galaxy AI is also able to recreate objects
Another test I did was removing a wireless charger that I was holding in my hand. I did this test on the Galaxy S25 Ultra, iPhone 16 Pro, OnePlus 13 and the Pixel 9 Pro. Unsurprisingly, the Galaxy S25 Ultra and Pixel 9 Pro had identical results. This is unsurprising since it’s the same feature, Samsung’s partnership with Google allows them to bring in loads of Google’s in-house AI features to its phones. However, the iPhone 16 Pro did a terrible job, though it’s not meant to erase objects, it’s meant to clean up the picture, hence the name “Clean Up”.
The OnePlus 13, for some reason decided that it should remove part of the object and then replace it with something else. This isn’t a one time thing for the OnePlus 13 either, it does this quite often (and on other BBK devices like the OPPO Find X8 Pro). So needless to say, I prefer the Galaxy S25 Ultra and Pixel 9 Pro results.
AI is truly incredible.
