Apple Intelligence using Clean Up on Photos app

I do not understand why the retouch tool had to go. I appreciate new tools but so far I have not found a way to retouch except to pixelate which is not what I am trying to do.

This cleanup tool is absolutely useless. I don't think I found anything on the web with such bad results of any editing tool. All I found it to do is ruin photos.

It’s absolutely awful.

The best free photo editing program is Snapseed. Their “healing” tool is pinpoint precise.

Will only do the final contrast and shadow adjustments in Photos…but everything else I do in Snapseed.

C’mon Apple…get it together!

The problem, for us "real" photographers, is that this new Clean Up tool doesn't work on RAW files. The Retouch function was perfect to remove blemishes on a face or even a car in the distance. Now nothing works anymore --neither the new Clean Up function nor the disappeared Retouch option. Apple used to make THE perfect tools for people working in the creative industry. It's not true anymore.

It's unacceptable to lose the Retouch tool on Apple Silicon Macs that had been available prior to the addition of Clean Up.

We lost the option-click function, which is a step backwards.

I hope Apple brings back the previous Retouch tool.

It’s still in Beta but you can submit feedback here: Feedback - Photos - Apple

So a perfectly good repair tool has been replaced with a beta tool that is a long way off ready?

Lilylasalle wrote: "...C’mon Apple…get it together!"

Lilylasalle ~ Apple isn't here in these user-to-user communties. Use this form:

Feedback - Photos - Apple

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andrewfromeast wareham wrote:

... Apple warns that using the tool on faces can result in pixellation. ...

It is the intended behavior - a new feature when sharing photos. We can pixelate the faces so they cannot be recognized in the shared photos. Use Apple Intelligence in Photos on Mac - Apple Support

But tis new tool to pixelate a face makes it hard to remove minor blemishes from a face, even after zooming in and using the smallest brush size.

I'm experiencing the same problem with pixelation if I try to remove a blemish from a photo. How could it be this bad?! When I google how to address it, the only solution seems to be to use a third party photo edit tool. What?!?! I sure hope Apple fixes this or at least puts touch-up back in the editing tools. Clean up works great for removing complicated background noise in a photo but can't remove a simple pimple from a photo. Does anyone have an answer or suggestion?

Thank you. I had already used that link but glad you sent it in case I had the wrong one. I was hoping someone in the community would have discovered a work around. I guess I'll just wait and hope that Apple gets its act together and puts the Retouch option back in as well as the Clean up.