Apple ADM 3 Cloud tested: 42nd in image editing, 85th in text-to-image

Artificial Analysis has added Apple's ADM 3 Cloud — the AI model powering the "Clean Up" photo editing feature on iPhone — to its arena leaderboards, and the results place it in the lower-middle tier overall: 42nd of 80 on the AA-Image-Editing v2.1 image editing board, and just 85th of 107 (bottom quartile) on the AA-Image-T2I v2.1 text-to-image board. The model runs on Private Cloud Compute and launched alongside iOS 27 on September 14.

Confirmed

• Image editing (AA-Image-Editing v2.1): 42nd overall; the top of the board is dominated by GPT Image 2.6 family models
• Text-to-image (AA-Image-T2I v2.1): 85th, in the bottom quartile; in the Consumer category aimed at everyday casual images, it ranks 86th of 107
• Its strongest area is object-level editing (adding, removing, or replacing objects in photos): 27th of 80, well above its overall rank
• Enhancement & Restoration (removing shadows and glare, fixing lighting and color) ranks 47th of 80, slightly below its overall 42nd
• Its weakest area is Composition & Filters (recomposing images), where it lags far behind category-leading models like Seedream 4.5

Why it matters

ADM 3 Cloud is Apple's cloud model built for consumer photo editing. Artificial Analysis's breakdown shows a highly uneven capability profile: it excels at adding, removing, and swapping objects — operations iPhone users perform often — but is clearly weak at generating images from scratch and recomposing compositions, reflecting a model optimized for a specific consumer use case rather than a general-purpose image generation contender.

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