Only Trusted Face Blur
Hide faces before you share a photo. Faces are found on your device and blurred by default; tap any face to keep it clear instead. Check every face before you share: detection is good, not perfect.
Effect
Detectors hug the face; ears, chin and hairline are identity too, so areas are padded by default. Pixelation is the anonymisation that survives resizing and reposting best; solid blocks hide the most.
Face finding
Strictness re-runs the finder on the photo already loaded. Boxes you moved or added yourself are kept.
Or just drag on an empty part of the photo. Areas work for plates, screens and badges too.
One download before faces can be found
Face detection needs a one-time download of about 13 MB: a small face model (0.23 MB) plus the shared AI runtime (12.7 MB) that the Background Remover and Passport Photo Maker also use. It is kept in your browser's cache, works offline after, and your photo is never uploaded. You can also skip it and draw blur areas by hand.
Drop a photo here, or tap to choose
Group photos, family pictures, marketplace shots. The photo stays on this device.
Before you share: zoom in and check every face. Detection is good, not perfect, and a missed face stays visible. Adding a box takes one drag.
Get your photo
The download is made at the photo's full original size, and it carries no location or camera data. Your original file is untouched.
Processed on this device: 0 · Uploaded: 0
How it works
Found on your device, hidden by you
When you add a photo, a small face-detection model that runs in your browser marks every face it finds. Each marked face will be hidden by default; tapping a face marks it to stay clear instead, shown with a green outline, and tapping again hides it. The readout always states the split, so you can see at a glance how many faces will be hidden and how many kept clear. The effect (pixelate, blur or solid) is drawn from the photo's original pixels at full resolution when you download, and the downloaded file is re-encoded, which strips the location and camera data the original may carry. Faces you keep clear are still counted in the readout, because "covered" should mean you made a decision about every face, not that the tool lost track of one.
Guide
Sharing photos more safely
- Group photos: hide everyone, then tap your own face (or your child's, if you have decided to share it) to keep just that one clear.
- Kids in photos: many schools and clubs ask for exactly this. Pixelate at about 10 blocks holds up when the photo is reposted smaller; solid hides the most.
- Marketplace and letting photos: drag areas over number plates, house numbers, screens and paperwork. Solid black is the right effect for those.
- Crowds: switch face finding to "Find more faces", then zoom in and sweep the photo once yourself. Small faces at the back are the ones detectors miss.
- Check the download: the file you share is the blurred one. Open it once before posting; the original on your device is still unblurred.
Questions
Does it find every face?
No detector finds every face. Side profiles, tiny faces and faces partly hidden can be missed. That is why every box here can be moved, resized and deleted, why you can drag a new box over anything the detector missed, and why the page keeps telling you to zoom in and check every face before you share. Treat the automatic boxes as a head start, not a guarantee.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. A privacy tool that uploads your photo would be asking a lot of trust. Face detection runs on your device using a small model (about 13 MB with its shared runtime) that downloads to your browser once. Turn off your internet after the page loads and the tool still works; your photo never leaves the device.
Does the download remove location data?
Yes. The download is re-encoded from the photo's pixels, so EXIF and GPS data (where the photo was taken, camera details) are not carried into it. Your original file is untouched and still has its data; only the copy you download here is clean. The Photo Privacy Checker shows you exactly what an original photo reveals.
Can the blur be removed later?
Not from the downloaded file: pixelation, blur and solid blocks here are baked into the pixels you download. Keep your original file somewhere private if you want the unblurred version. Solid blocks hide the most; heavy pixelation survives resizing and reposting better than a light blur.
Can I blur number plates or text instead of faces?
Yes. Drag on any empty part of the photo to draw a blur area over a plate, a screen, a name badge or anything else. The solid effect in black is the safest choice for plates and text, where a light blur can still leak shapes.