How to use Instagram’s new Restyle AI tool to reimagine your photos (www.techradar.com)

Instagram has rolled out Restyle, a Meta AI–powered editing tool built directly into Stories that lets users add, remove or change elements of photos and videos using preset styles or free‑form text prompts. The feature (rolling out in the U.S.; video editing is less widely available than stills) is accessed from the Story editor via a paint‑brush Restyle icon: pick Add/Remove/Change or a preset, enter a prompt, then hit Done to generate edits in a few seconds. You can reload for alternate variants or undo to revert; video presets include effects like Underwater, Snowstorm and Fire. A simple example: remove a dog’s bandana, add a superhero costume, tweak the emblem and change the background to a rooftop — all within the Story flow. Embedding generative editing directly into Instagram matters because it lowers the barrier to AI image tools for mainstream users and promotes viral sharing via Add Yours stickers, accelerating discovery and adoption outside specialist apps. For the AI/ML community, Restyle demonstrates fast on-device or cloud-assisted synthesis tied to user media plus prompts, but it also highlights risks: model hallucinations and trademark/IP infringement (the writer’s example of the model producing a famous superhero emblem) and the limits of synthetic visuals versus handcrafted art. The feature positions Meta against Google Photos and xAI’s offerings, showing how social apps are becoming primary distribution channels for generative media.