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Add or change an image

An image is optional.

An image is optional. Your future works with words alone.

An AI Vision is an image made by artificial intelligence from your future and your choices. My Likeness means using photos of you to help the image look like you. A generated image may not get every detail right.

Add an AI image

  1. Open Boards and find your future.
  2. Tap Add Image on the future, or press and hold it and choose Add Image.
  3. If Featuring appears, check who is selected. Tap the names to change them.
  4. Choose AI Vision or My Likeness, whichever appears.
  5. If asked, read the AI information and make your choice about using it.
  6. Add reference photos if Futurecast needs them.
  7. Follow any allowance message, then wait for the image.

To start a new future with an AI image, use Create > New Future, write your words, and choose AI Vision or My Likeness. Finish by tapping Save at the top right.

For a future generated on a board, Featuring may already have a saved person or pet selected. Your board intention can help shape these suggestions, but each future has its own choices. Check them before making the image. See include people and pets in board futures.

A Vision is also the unit the app uses for an AI image request. Check your available Visions before generating or editing an AI image. These actions can use your allowance. Rejecting a result does not mean the request was free.

Use your own photo

For a new future:

  1. Tap Create > New Future.
  2. Write your future.
  3. Tap Photo > Photo Upload.
  4. Choose a photo.
  5. On Position Photo, choose Whole to show the full photo or Fill to cover the screen. Drag to move it or pinch to zoom, then tap Done.
  6. Tap Save at the top right to save the future.

For a saved future, open Edit Future > Vision > Upload. Choose a photo, position it, then tap Done and Save.

A photo you choose is used as the future's image. This is different from adding reference photos, which help AI create a new image.

Position the photo

On Position Photo:

  1. Tap Whole to show the full photo over a blurred background, or Fill to cover the screen.
  2. Drag to choose what stays in view. Pinch to zoom, up to three times the Fill size.
  3. Tap Done.

For a saved photo future, open Edit Future > Vision > Position, adjust the photo, then tap Done and Save. While making a new future, tap Vision > Position, then adjust the photo and tap Done. Tap Save at the top right to save the new future. This control is for your own uploaded photos, not AI images or gallery images.

The lock screen Now Playing artwork does not use your saved photo position.

Futurecast Gallery is a collection of ready-made images.

  1. Open Edit Future.
  2. Tap Vision > Gallery.
  3. Browse the images, or use Search.
  4. Tap the filter icon to show categories. Choose All to clear the category choice.
  5. Tap the image you want.
  6. Tap Save to save the future.

For a new future, the route is Photo > Futurecast Gallery. After choosing an image, tap Save.

If a Yours tab appears, it holds images from your own history. See Reuse an image.

Ask for image changes

AI changes use your image allowance. Describe the result you want before sending the request.

  1. Open the saved future's Edit Future screen.
  2. Tap Vision > Describe.
  3. Type a clear request, such as "Put me in a bright office with a window behind me."
  4. Tap the send arrow.
  5. Wait for the preview.
  6. Tap Keep new vision to accept it, or Discard to reject it.
  7. Tap Save to save accepted changes.

While previewing a new AI future, tap Vision > Describe. Accept the image preview with its checkmark, then tap Save to save the future.

Generate a different image

  1. Open Edit Future > Vision.
  2. Tap New.
  3. Wait for the result.
  4. Tap Keep new vision to accept it, or Discard to reject it.
  5. Tap Save to save the accepted image.

This makes a new AI request for the future. It can use another Vision. In a new AI future's preview, use Vision > New, then tap Save to save the future.

Choose a photo style

Each board has a Photo Style for its AI images.

  • Cinematic: golden light and soft backgrounds, like a film still. Boards start with this style.
  • Candid: real moments, like a friend took the photo on their phone.
  1. Open the board.
  2. Tap the three dots, then Board Settings.
  3. Under Images, tap Photo Style.
  4. Tap Cinematic or Candid, then tap Done.

The style applies to new AI images on that board, including Vision > New and Reimagine. Images you already have stay as they are. A future that is not on a board uses Cinematic. When a future is on more than one board, open it from the board whose style you want before you make a new image.

Both styles use one Vision per image request.

Show words instead of the image

  1. Open Edit Future > More.
  2. Tap Show as text card.
  3. Tap Save.

This keeps the image attached. To show it again, use More > Show vision and save.

Remove an image

  1. Open Edit Future > Vision.
  2. Tap Remove.
  3. Confirm Remove.
  4. Tap Save.

Your future's words stay. To keep the image but hide it, use More > Show as text card instead.

While previewing a new future, tap Vision > Remove, then tap Save to save the future without its image.

Save an image to Photos

  1. Open the future in the player.
  2. Tap the three dots > Save to Photos.
  3. Choose Save Image for the image alone, or Save with Words for the image with your future's words.
  4. Allow Futurecast to add to Photos if asked.

A text-only future saves as a picture of its text card.

In Edit Future, open More and choose Download image for the image alone or Download with words to include your future's words.

If permission was denied, use Open Settings in the alert to allow access, then return and save again.

Share a single future

  1. Open the future in the player.
  2. Tap the three dots > Share.
  3. Choose an app or person in the iPhone share sheet.
  4. Check the destination and send it.

This shares a picture of the future, including its words. It does not send its voice clip or give someone a live link to your board. Review the image before sending it, especially if it shows personal photos or other people.

You can also use More > Share in the future editor. To share a playable board link, see Share a board.

If an image does not appear

Keep the future's words. You do not need to delete the future to fix an image problem.

  • If it is still being made, give it time to finish.
  • If Retry appears, read the message before using it. Do not assume a new AI request is free.
  • If you have no Visions left, use words, a photo, or the gallery while you review the choices in the app.
  • If a message says someone needed for the image is unavailable, check People & Pets. Restore an archived person or choose who should appear in a new image.
  • If the image is in your history, restore a previous image.

For a repeated failure, use Help & Support. Keep the message that appeared so support can understand the problem.

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