Finds faces for you
Press Find faces and every detected face gets a box, padded to cover hair and jaw. Move, resize or delete any box before you export.
Cover a face, a plate or an address before you share
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Drag a box over a face, a number plate, a house number, a name on a document, an email address in a screenshot. Blur or mosaic, as strong as you want. The photo is never uploaded — which on this tool is not a feature, it is the whole point.
Hide faces, number plates and private details properly before a photo goes public.
Press Find faces and every detected face gets a box, padded to cover hair and jaw. Move, resize or delete any box before you export.
Number plates, house numbers, an email in a screenshot, a balance on a statement — drag a box over whatever needs to disappear.
Blur keeps a photo looking natural; mosaic makes the redaction obvious. The strength previews live while you drag the slider.
Each region is processed on its own copy and written back into the pixels, so nothing around it leaks in and there is no layer to peel off.
Faces are detected and blurred inside this tab. No server receives a picture of your children, your car or your front door.
The result preview is the exported image itself. Check the edges before posting — a box one pixel short is still one pixel short.
| The picture | What needs covering | Which setting |
|---|---|---|
| A photo of your kid's team | Other people's children | Mosaic — it reads as deliberate |
| A car you are selling | The number plate | Mosaic at strength 10, over the whole plate |
| A flat listing | House number, post, neighbours | Blur, so the shot still looks natural |
| A screenshot for a bug report | Email address, account balance | Mosaic at strength 10 — text needs the biggest blocks |
| An event photo for a newsletter | Faces of anyone who did not consent | Blur at strength 10, box a little larger than the face |
Mosaic and blur make a picture hard to read, not impossible. Researchers have measured where the line is, and the settings recommended on this page follow them.
For text and numbers, a mosaic only stops software from reading them once each block covers more than one character. At strength 10 a box is four blocks across, so on a number plate each block spans about two characters. That is why this page says Mosaic at strength 10 for anything written.
“It seems that irresolvable ambiguities arise when the mosaic grid size is large enough to span multiple digits; moreover, as the grid size approaches the dimensions of the full text, the mosaicing filter (just like redaction by a black bar) results in a complete loss of information.”A blurred face that a person cannot place can still be matched by software against known photos. That is why the advice for faces is strength 10 with a box a little bigger than the face, and why a lightly blurred face should not be treated as anonymous.
“We demonstrate that deep learning can be used to accurately recognize faces, objects, and handwritten digits even if the image has been obfuscated by mosaicing, blurring, or encrypting the significant JPEG coefficients.”Find faces runs Google's face detector inside your browser. Google built it for faces close to the camera, like a selfie, so small faces at the back of a crowd are the ones it can miss. Check the boxes before you save.
“The model is optimized for front-facing phone camera images at short range.”Six jobs where a face, a number or an address has to go before a photo is shared, and the rule that says so. Every rule links to the platform's or regulator's own page.
Google Maps' contribution policy says not to post personal information without consent, and names a person's face in a photograph as an example. A photo of a busy restaurant or a popular trail almost always catches a few strangers.
How it helps
Press Find faces and each face it detects gets a padded box; drag your own over any it missed. It is tuned for faces near the camera, so strangers further back are the ones to check. Blur keeps the room looking natural, and detection runs in this tab, so the photo is never uploaded.
The UK ICO says that if someone can be recognised from a photograph it is usually their personal data, and expects schools to offer an opt-out before using pupil photos for promotion. One opted-out child can sit in the middle of a class shot.
How it helps
Drag a box over the child who opted out, or press Find faces and delete the boxes you don't need. Mosaic reads as deliberate on a school page, and no pupil photo is sent to a server to do it.
The Dutch data protection authority says that when an organisation has no legal duty to hold a full copy of your ID, your citizen service number (BSN) and passport photo must be made invisible, and you may do that yourself.
How it helps
Choose Mosaic and drag one box over the BSN and one over the photo, at strength 10. The covered pixels are thrown away rather than painted over, and the scan of your ID never leaves your device.
Microsoft Q&A tells members not to post sensitive information such as passwords, dates of birth or credit card details, and warns that an email address posted in a thread may be used for any purpose by the public. Error screenshots often show the signed-in account.
How it helps
Drag a box over each address, account name or licence field and pick Mosaic at strength 10, so readers can see something was hidden on purpose. Every box is listed under Areas with its size, and the preview is the exported file.
Airbnb wants an Experience cover photo with people enjoying the activity, and tells hosts to get permission before photographing people who will be prominently featured. Shots from a real session include guests who never agreed to appear in a listing.
How it helps
Leave the guests who said yes and box the ones who didn't. Blur keeps the scene soft and natural, so the cover still shows people taking part, and Find faces boxes the faces near the camera; look over the background yourself, where distant faces are easy for it to miss.
HIPAA's rule for making patient information anonymous lists identifiers that must be removed, among them full-face photos and any comparable images, names, and medical record numbers. A bedside photo for a teaching slide can show all three at once.
How it helps
Find faces boxes the face; drag more boxes over the wristband, chart label or monitor. The photo is processed in your browser, never on a server. The rule lists far more than pixels, so check the rest before sharing.
It removes it. The covered region is copied out, destroyed — blurred on its own or reduced to a handful of mosaic cells — and written back over the original pixels. What is saved in the file has no layer underneath, so there is nothing to peel off. How much can still be guessed from what remains depends on the strength — see Blur or mosaic below.
No. The whole thing happens in your browser, which for this tool is the entire point: a photo of someone's child or someone's number plate should not be sent to a stranger's server to be hidden.
Yes. Press Find faces and every face it detects gets a box, found inside your browser, so the photo is never uploaded. It is tuned for faces close to the camera, so look for small faces in the background too. Check the boxes, then drag your own over anything it can't know about: number plates, house numbers, a name on a document, an email address in a screenshot.
Neither is a solid black bar, so the strength matters. For text and numbers, use Mosaic at strength 10: each block then covers more than one character, which is where researchers found hidden text could no longer be worked out. For faces, the stronger the setting the harder they are to recognise, but software can still match a lightly blurred face, so use strength 10 and a box a little larger than the face. Mosaic also reads as deliberate, which matters when you want it obvious that something was hidden rather than accidentally out of focus.
The boxes are drawn against one picture. The same rectangle applied to a different photo would land somewhere else entirely — and on this tool, landing somewhere else means publishing the thing you meant to hide.