In 2025, Adobe’s emblematic photo editor, Photoshop, has just celebrated his 35th anniversary and we finally have a real Photoshop mobile application. Based on what we saw during Adobe’s overview in New York this week, the new IPhone Photoshop application is something new – not a narrowed version of the standard office office application, Nor a basic upgrade of current Express Photoshop. It is a surprising evolution of the program that thousands of creators use every day.
Adobe has been working on photoshop brand mobile applications for over 15 years, launching and abandoning products like Photoshop Express and Photoshop Touch along the way. There were other Adobe mobile applications that also picked up steam and met different needs. The photographers of raw cameras obtained the mobile application of Lightroom in 2017. Two years later in 2019, Adobe launched Fresco, its application of painting and mobile drawing which started on iPad and then extended to the iPhone. But for creators who promote Photoshop above all, there has been something of a hole in the size of a photoshop that none of these other mobile applications has been able to fill, so far.
The IOS Photoshop app is available globally today, free with a set of basic features or with full features via the new $ 8 per month APP-Plus-Photoshop-Web ($ 70 per year ). An Android application arrives later this year, the company said in its press release. The application will also be included with other inclusive Photoshop plans, such as Creative photography plan or all applications. The files are supported on all platforms.
While many of the features you know and you like on Photoshop are present in the application, the iOS application is always a radical break from what long -standing users will consider the traditional photoshop, offering more Photoshop elements– Atmosphere like. It makes sense, as Adobe says that the application is designed for the “next generation of creators” who find the phone a device more practical for work. A few research Practical to young people, like Gen Z and Alpha, as being more inclined to mobile, but the professionals who make up the majority of Photoshop users may not appreciate the reduced experience. On the other hand, the application could also offer a less intimidating path to Photoshop for creators who could be overwhelmed by the web desktop or feature interface.
As with any mobile application, its gaps can be overlooked due to convenience. Adobe considers the application as a bridge to other Photoshop versions, with more advanced features on the web and an even larger step on the desktop. Here is everything you can expect to see with the new Iphone Photoshop application.
What is old is new again (and other new things)
Photoshop veterans users will see a lot of familiar territory when they open the application for the first time, from the masking and all the usual retouching tools. But the user interface integrated into Mobile will always put professional users on a learning curve.
Press Select the IPhone Photoshop application
One of the largest new features of the Photoshop application is the TAP Select tool. Photoshop may not seem to need another selection tool (remember the joke in the film Barbie on having too much?), But it is a useful addition to work on a small screen and A workspace. TAP SELECT works as it sounds – it analyzes your project, then identifies and highlights all the objects distinct from the image. You can then press to select several objects in the stickers displayed in a line at the bottom, masking them and modifying them if necessary.
Your iPhone application is synchronized with your Adobe account so you can draw photos from Lightroom or Fresco’s paintings and sketches to modify the mobile application. If you are starting a whole new project, you can also use the Adobe Firefly AI models to generate AI images or pull from the free adobe stock collection (no need to connect, download and license manually). And like all other versions of Photoshop, the mobile application is responsible for generative tools powered by Adobe, including the generative filling of popular Photoshop.
The paid version unlocks additional publishing tools such as the magic wand and the spot healing, as well as advanced web functionalities such as the similar reference image based on AI, a more precise and more precise and more precise object selection tool Again.
Evolutionary photoshop for the small screen
The launch of the Photoshop mobile application comes at a time when photo editing software and mobile devices all get AI makeover. In recent years, Adobe has gone everything on AI, to the dismay of certain suspicious creators. Most Adobe’s creative products have obtained major upgrades fueled by AI, whether tools to extend video clips in Premiere Pro or help erase wires and cables in Photoshop.
Adobe does not show any signs of slowdown; The public beta version of its IA video generator made its debut earlier this month. At the same time, smartphones manufacturers like Apple, Samsung and Google loaded their new devices with all kinds of AI. Some of these mobile AI programs include photo editing tools, such as Apple Intelligence’s image field and cleaning tool. In addition, the photo edition has a lot of competition. Applications like Canva and Photopa may not correspond to the whole of Adobe’s set of features, but they offer enough for switching to come unless you can already invest in Adobe’s ecosystem.
The Photoshop iPhone app is certainly late, fills a niche in the Adobe product range and offers its usual users a more practical option. But it will be interesting to see if the “next generation” of creators, Adobe, will continue to gravitate towards the new Photoshop application, one of its many competitors or will try them at their disposal on their retouching device on the provisions.
