Free · runs in your browser
One tap finds the faces in your picture and covers each with a soft oval. Keep the people you want, hide the rest, and save it without uploading anything.
Or pick one from your computer. JPEG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC. Videos work too.Pick the picture from your photos or files.
Works with JPEGPNGWebPHEICand more
Faces are found and blurred on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
To blur a face in a photo, open the picture above and choose Faces. The editor finds each face on your device and covers it with an oval named Face 1, Face 2 and so on, blurred because Look starts on Blur here. Delete any face you want left visible, drag a box over anyone it missed, then press Export photo.
It suits the situations where faces matter most: a class or team photo going on a public page, a street scene with strangers in it, a screenshot of a video call, or a picture of your children you want to share without showing their friends. Nothing is uploaded, which matters when the people in the picture never agreed to it.
Drop it onto the box above or choose it from your device or photo library.
On this page face finding starts as soon as the photo opens, with Faces chosen. Each face becomes a blurred oval, listed with its picture under Faces. Find faces again (the circular arrow next to Faces) runs it once more.
Pick a face in the Faces list and turn off Hide this face to leave that person visible. Drag on the photo around any face that was missed: it is added to the list as an oval.
Raise Blur strength until no one is recognisable, then press Export photo and Download photo.
The detector is Google’s MediaPipe BlazeFace model, served from this site and run inside your browser. It scans the picture at up to 1600 pixels across, then scans overlapping tiles of it, so faces at the back of a large group are not lost in a single small pass. Overlapping results are merged, and each face gets an oval padded a little beyond the detector’s tight box to cover hair, ears and chin.
It downloads once, about 3 MB, and is cached by your browser afterwards. The photo is never sent anywhere for detection.
There are two ways round. The quick one: choose Faces, then pick the person you want to keep in the Faces list and turn off Hide this face. Everyone else stays covered.
The other way blurs the whole background as well: put a box or oval over the person who should stay sharp, open More options and turn on Blur everything except the boxes. Every part of the photo outside that shape is blurred, faces included.
Large groups are where automatic detection earns its keep, and also where it most often misses someone. Faces turned to the side, partly hidden behind another head, in shadow, under a cap or only a few dozen pixels wide can fall below the detector’s threshold. Zoom in on the preview and work across the picture row by row.
For crowds where you want everyone hidden, The whole photo with a light blur and one sharp box (using Blur everything except the boxes) can be quicker than checking dozens of ovals.
Blur is the least intrusive and suits casual photos. Pixelate is more obviously deliberate and keeps a little less of the face’s shape. Black removes the face entirely and is the choice when identification could put someone at risk.
You can change the look for the whole picture under Look, or for a single face with Look for this area. Remember that people are recognised by more than their faces: hair, a distinctive jacket, a tattoo or a name badge can give them away. Paint over those with the brush. For the same job on a clip, see blurring faces in a video.
The editor works in Safari and Chrome on phones, and face finding runs on the phone itself. Tap Choose photo, pick the picture and tap Faces. When you are done, Share or save to Photos puts the blurred copy straight back into your library on iPhone. The iPhone guide and Android guide also cover what the built-in photo apps can do.
Open the picture above and choose Faces. Each face is found and blurred; delete the ones you want to keep and press Export photo. To blur one face only, choose Part of the photo, draw a box over it and set Shape to Oval.
Open this page in Safari, tap Choose photo and pick the picture, then tap Faces. Tap Export photo and Share or save to Photos. See the iPhone guide for the built-in options too.
Not always. People can be recognised from their clothes, voice, location or the people around them. Cover those too, use a strong setting, and treat blurring as reducing the risk rather than removing it.
Yes, and many schools and clubs ask parents to. Choose Faces, keep your own child visible if you wish by turning off Hide this face on their picture, and blur the rest. Check school logos and name labels on bags or uniforms as well.
Small, distant, blurry, dark or side-on faces can fall below the detector’s confidence threshold. Drag a box over any face it missed; it takes a second.
No. The face detector runs in your browser and the photo never leaves your device.