School, club, nursery
Not all parents have agreed to a group photo being published. Hide Faces covers all faces, and you make visible again only those whose consent you have.
Photo & Video
iPhone & iPad
Hide Faces Pixelate faces before you share a photo
A class photo, a demonstration, a street scene or your own children in the family chat: not everyone wants to be recognisable in a shared photo. Hide Faces detects the faces and makes them unrecognisable before the photo leaves your iPhone.
Download on the App Store
Free · one-time purchase “Unlimited” €3.99 · no subscription
Requires iOS 18.0
Screenshots
Use cases
Demonstrations and street scenes
For photos of crowds, blacking out is the safest choice, because software can partly reconstruct pixelated areas. The saved copy contains no location and no date.
Number plates and name tags
On request, the app also detects and covers text. You mark any other areas yourself, in the full-screen view with zoom if you like.
Features
- Faces are detected automatically and covered at once
- Tap a face to show it again, for example for people who have agreed
- Drag your finger across the photo to cover further areas
- Optionally covers text as well: name tags, number plates, house numbers
- Pixelate, blur or black out. The strength adapts to the size of the area
- Full-screen view with zoom for precise work on large photos
- The app points out that only a solid black area is safe against reconstruction by software
- The saved copy contains no location, no camera data and no date
- Processing happens on your device. No upload, no account, no tracking, no watermark
Pricing
Free
€0
Three photos a day with all features.
The free version can be used without a time limit.
One-time purchase “Unlimited”
€3.99
No daily limit.
Pay once, use it for good. No subscription.
Privacy
The app collects no data. Everything you open or create stays on your device until you share it yourself.
Photos: The photo you pick is analysed on the device with Apple's Vision framework. No picture and no face data leaves the device. A copy is saved to your library only when you tap Save.
Face data: Hide Faces uses Apple's Vision framework on the device to find where the faces are in the photo you pick. The result is only the position and size of a rectangle around each face: no facial features, no face geometry, no recognition or identification of a person. The rectangles have one use: to place the pixelation, blur or black area over the faces. They are kept in the device's memory only while the photo is open in the app; they are never written to storage, never sent anywhere and never shared with anyone, the developer included. They are deleted when you open another photo, start over or the app is quit. The copy you save holds only the edited picture, with no metadata and no face data.
- No account
- No ads
- No tracking
- Works without internet
Frequently asked questions
Why was a face not detected?
Small, turned or partly covered faces can be missed. Drag across the photo to cover such areas yourself, and always check the result before sharing.
Can pixelation be undone?
Strong pixelation and blur are enough for the eye, but software can partly reconstruct such areas. Only a solid black area is really safe.
I bought the upgrade, but it is locked again.
Tap “Restore purchase” on the purchase card in the app. A one-time purchase is tied to your Apple account and does not have to be paid for again.
