You can add any photo or video to a Freeform board, or take a new one with your iPhone camera. You can also add any kind of file to your board by scanning, linking, or inserting it.
If you have any iPhone 16 model, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max and Apple Intelligence is turned on, you can use Image Playground to create one-of-a-kind images in Freeform. See to start a new one.
Do one of the following:
Copy the item to your Clipboard, tap an empty space, then, when a menu appears, tap Paste.
Tap Pages document, participants in your Freeform board can tap the card to move to the shared file in iCloud. (If you want others to be able to collaborate on the file, you must save it in iCloud.)
Double-tap any media item—photo, video, scan, or other file—to preview it.
You can scan a paper document and add it to your board as a PDF without leaving Freeform.
Go to the Freeform app or press a volume button.
Drag the corners to select the area you want in the scanned document, then tap Keep Scan.
Scan additional pages, then tap Save when you’re done.
A card with an image of the first page of your scan appears on your board.
Tip: To save your scan to iCloud Drive or on your iPhone, select the card, tap .
Remove the photo’s background: Tap Apply consistent styles and formatting in Freeform on iPhone