What’s New in Nero AI Image Upscaler 2026 (Release Notes – 28.5.8.0)

We are thrilled to announce a major update to Nero AI Image Upscaler, bringing new features, enhancements, and a streamlined user experience designed to elevate your image processing to new heights. This release represents our commitment to providing you with the most powerful and intuitive tools for transforming your digital images. Let’s dive into the exciting changes that await you!


👤 Enhanced Face Options: Bringing Your Portraits to Life

For those who frequently work with portraits and images containing faces, the new update introduces a dedicated Face Options section. This includes intelligent features like Face recovery and Skin retouch, designed to restore and enhance facial details with precision.

From subtle skin smoothing to recovering lost details in eyes and hair, these options give you professional-grade control over portrait enhancement. Best of all, you can now run these portrait features directly with local models, making the workflow faster and more flexible.


📏 Clearer Output Size Specification: Know Before You Process

Gone are the days of guessing the final dimensions of your upscaled images. The updated Upscale size option now provides immediate feedback, clearly displaying the resulting output resolution (e.g., “2x” will show “1280 x 784 px”). This transparency ensures you know exactly what to expect before hitting Process.


🎚️ Smarter Model Control: Intuitive and Precise

We’ve streamlined the AI model selection process and paired it with a new Model strength slider. Whether you’re working with Photograph, Anime, or other specialized models, you can now select and fine-tune them more easily—balancing subtle refinement with dramatic transformation at your fingertips.


💾 Faster Saving with Fewer Clicks

Saving your processed images is now quicker than ever. Instead of going through an extra confirmation step, results are directly exported according to the default file name and path rules. Fewer clicks, smoother workflow, faster results.


🌙☀️ Light & Dark Mode Support

We’ve added full support for Light Mode and Dark Mode, giving you the flexibility to choose the interface style that best fits your environment and personal preference. Whether you’re working in a bright studio or a dim editing room, Nero AI Image Upscaler now adapts seamlessly for a more comfortable experience.


🚀 Experience the Future of Image Upscaling Today!

This update is more than just an iteration—it’s a testament to our continuous effort to deliver cutting-edge technology with an unparalleled user experience. Update today and unlock the full potential of your images!

Image Upscaler Release Notes – 27.5.17.0

New features

  • 1-Click Start/Cancel for Multiple Images
    You can now start or cancel upscaling with a single click for all selected images. This streamlined feature saves time and gives you greater control over batch processing.
1-click to start all images
1-click to start all images
  • New Local AI Model – Iris
    Meet Iris, our latest model designed to enhance fine contrast details like eyes, fur, hair, and feathers. Perfect for portraits and close-ups, Iris brings out the delicate textures in your images.
Meet our new model IRIS

Note: The “Iris” model is paid-only. It is available to yearly plan subscribers or lifetime owners from 2025 onwards. 2024 lifetime users need to purchase the 2025 version or a subscription to access it.

  • Seamless Editing in PhotoSnap
    After upscaling with Nero AI Image Upscaler, you can now fine-tune your images directly in PhotoSnap. Adjust colors, apply filters, retouch faces, add clip art, text, and more—without missing a beat.
Seamless Editing in PhotoSnap

Improvements

  • You can now enable face enhancement with any online upscaling model, thanks to Nero Cloud GPU. Enjoy sharper, more detailed facial features across all your images.
Face Enhancement with All online Models
  • You can now set a targeted scaling ratio for online upscaling models, giving you more control over the final image size and quality.
Custom Scaling Ratios for Online Upscaling

Bugfixes

  • We’ve fixed an issue where the app failed to load the local upscaling engine on certain devices.

Image Upscaler Release Notes – 27.5.9.0

New features

  • Now you can hide the model tips on the cursor hovering via turning on the Hide-model-guidance Option:

By default, it is OFF which means that a model tip will show up when the cursor is hovering on a model as below screenshot:

The model tip on cursor hovering in the Image Upscaler

  • A new entry for Activation code under Help Menu which will open the Nero Start app to redeem the product.

how to activate Image Upscaler with activation code

For more infomation, please refer to Redeem Activation Code

Image Upscaler Release Notes – 27.5.5.0

New features

  • Now you can set the default upscaling ratio and models for all remaining unprocessed images with just 1-click.
    • via Options page:Auto-start option for face recovery
    • via the processing control zone:Apply model and size settings to all the unprocessed images

The size settings of scale rate is only available for local models. We will make it possible for online models soon.

For more infomation, please refer to How to set model and size settings to all unprocessed photos quickly with Image Upscaler

Image Upscaler Release Notes – 26.5.46.0

Improvements

  • Now you can choose to keep the original filename when you output results.
    Options - keep original filename
    Options – keep the original filename

    PS. This option might overwrite your original files when you export the results to the same directory as the original files.

  • You can see all the output image info with the cursor hovering

    hovering for image info
    hovering for image info