Blur faces and private details in photos, found automatically

Overview

Open a photo and tap Find faces: iEdit marks every face it finds and covers it, telling you how many. Drag on the picture to cover anything else, a number plate, a name on a letter, a child in the background, a screen in the corner, and tap an area to select and adjust it. Choose the cover: blur, with a strength setting, pixelate, or a solid black box. Remove the location is on by default, so the GPS position is left out of the saved picture.

Face detection uses Apple Vision on iPhone and iPad and Google ML Kit on Android, with the detection model inside the app, so no image is sent anywhere to be analysed. The date and camera details stay in the file unless you also run the EXIF tool. The saved picture has the covers baked into the pixels, which is the point: unlike a sticker in a social app, nothing can be peeled back later. HEIC, WebP, JPEG and PNG are accepted.

Posting a classroom photo, sharing a document that shows someone else's address, selling a car without broadcasting the plate, or publishing a street scene with strangers in it. Covering runs on your device, offline if you like, and the original photo is kept untouched, so you can always decide again what to share.