There's a face-blurring feature which is hidden within your iPhone's Photos app that's very useful

Apple has been adding features to the Photos app on Apple iPhone and iPad for years, including some that people may not know about.

For example, there’s a relatively new feature that’s been introduced to address privacy concerns.

Enhanced by AI, this feature allows you to do something that might be useful and, on occasion, maybe even legally required.

It’s not hidden, but the way Apple worded it might be the reason people don’t know about it.

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We’ve come a long way

We should probably start with a reminder that the first iPhone didn’t even have a front camera or a video camera.

These days, even the base Apple iPhone has a camera that’s almost as good as a professional camera.

You can also edit pictures in Photos and make different changes, including some pretty advanced ones.

Apple has been tinkering with these features for ages, mainly because the tech giant always tries absolutely everything it can to lock you into their ecosystem and keep you from using third-party apps.

Obviously, depending on what you use your camera for, you may still need photo editing apps.

But for the vast majority of us, what you can do in Photos is already good enough.

You can even blur people’s faces.

This is how you can blur someone’s face with your iPhone’s Photos app

Not long ago, Apple introduced a feature that allows your device to recognize faces in Photos.

This generated some inevitable privacy concerns, and so Apple added another feature that allows you to blur faces.

When you open an image, all you have to do is select ‘edit’ and then ‘clean up’.

At that point, you’ll be able to use a brush around the face you want to blur, and the phone will do the rest automatically, with a message on screen that reads ‘Identity protection applied’.

The name probably explains why people aren’t familiar with this feature.

‘Cleaning up’ an image won’t automatically make you think you can use this feature to blur faces or digitally remove elements from the frame.

We should also point out that this edit can be undone at any point, but only by you.

If you share the picture with someone else, they won’t be able to undo it with their phone.