How to blur faces in photos and videos on a Mac

Hide faces and text in photos, and blur faces in every frame of a video, on your Mac, so nothing private is uploaded.

Built in: macOS has no built-in way. In Preview you can draw a shape over a photo by hand, one at a time.

With Garlic

1. Start dragging the photo or film and hold ⌘ Command.
2. Drop on Redact. Garlic finds faces (and text in photos) on your Mac.
3. A covered copy appears beside the original.

To remove location and camera details as well, hold ⇧ Shift and drop photos on Clean.

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Everything happens on your Mac; nothing is uploaded. macOS 13 or later. More guides