The Easiest Ways to Blur or Hide Sensitive Parts of a Photo on Your Phone
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Summary
There are several ways to edit photos on smartphones to ensure sensitive information isn’t shared unintentionally, including through the use of markup tools, blurring, and taking screenshots of edited photos before uploading them.
The iPhone’s Photos app has a Markup tool accessed by tapping the edit icon, then the Markup icon, and users can then select the pen tool to draw over sensitive areas of the photo, choosing a pen colour that matches the object being blurred, or tap the + icon to add a shape, sticker, or emoji over the area
To edit photos on Android devices, Google Photos has a similar Markup tool, where users select the Pen tool to draw over the area they want to hide, in a colour that matches the object, and then save the edited photo as a new copy to preserve the original image.
Samsung Galaxy phone users can use the Gallery app’s photo editor, which includes a blur tool called the mosaic pen, to blur sensitive areas of photos, adjusting the blur level with a slider, and saving the edited image as a new file.
