On the surface, you may not think that knowing how to blur faces on your iPhone is important, but you’d be surprised how useful this one little skill can be. Blurring someone’s face is a great way to protect their identity while sharing a photo.
Here’s how to quickly blur faces on an iPhone photo so you can share images freely.
The most obvious reason to blur someone’s face in an image is to protect their privacy. This is mandatory for kids, especially if you don’t have permission to share their photos. But it’s also good practice for adults who may not want their images shared.
Blurring out the faces of anyone you don’t know is a nice gesture when sharing on social media. And you can also use it for informational purposes. For example, if you are sending someone a group photo, but need to point out someone specific, you can quickly blur out the rest of the faces to make the content more clear for the recipient.
Using the native Photos app on iPhone is the quickest way to blur faces in photos on iPhone. Yet, I should warn you that it’s not exactly a ‘blur.’ Instead, you are actually blacking out a face using the Markup tool. This works great for faces. It’s also useful for blacking out written information like license plate numbers.
Here’s how to use the Markup tool in Photos to blur out faces on iPhone.
Here’s a fun way to blur faces on your next iPhone photo — use emoji stickers! Follow these steps to add emojis to your next photo project.
You probably already know how quickly photos and videos can eat up storage on your iPhone. Take a few minutes to download CleanMyPhone so you can quickly and easily clean up your blurry, duplicate, and unwanted photos before they overwhelm you.
Google Snapseed is a completely free photo editing app known for being incredibly intuitive, so you can create professional-quality photos in a flash. Here’s how to use Snapseed to blur faces on an iPhone using the Lens Blur tool. This is most useful when you want to blur all faces in an area.
Blurring faces in a video is a bit more difficult to achieve. You will need a third-party app to do it.
Here’s how to blur faces in a video using CapCut.
Blurring photos and videos on your iPhone takes a bit of experimentation, but it’s a useful skill to have in your digital toolbox.