How to hide faces and rub the descriptive data when photographing a protest

Although appearing in the protest can prove your opinion in the world, you may not want to include your face – or the faces of other demonstrators – especially when there is a possibility that the authorities will collect and use this information (such as They did to track the movements During Covid-19, social distance). As a result, many consider that it is necessary to block the faces of people in any images that you may publish on social media and other online sources.

The following are some strategies to remove facial features from your photos. Of course, you can open your photos on a desktop or laptop using Photoshop or a preview of disinfection or rubbing, but we will assume that you do not have a laptop with you. So with a mobile phone position, you still have some solid options.

When the faces are removed, you want to use an irreversible method. It is possible to get rid of an image, especially using nerve networks. It is not possible to contradict this not completely clear, since it is missing (in other words, some data will be lost permanently), but a lot can be restored.

You also want to remove anything from the initial data from your photos. They can carry GPS, tubes, and details about the type of phone used – basically, a lot of things that can be used to determine your place and when.

Although there are a large number of applications that will help blur the faces or cover the faces and remove the descriptive data of both iOS and Android devices (some mentioned below), there are ways that you can do both without using an application of an external authority.

First, you can use the built -in photo editor to prevent faces individually. On iOS, open the pictures, click on your photo and select the editing option (at the bottom of the screen). Press the coding icon on the upper right of the screen. However, create solid circles or boxes to prevent faces. If you have an iPhone chain 15 or newer with iOS 18.1 (or later), you can also use the facial wipeting feature: in the image you want to change, click Edit and then clean it (an eraser icon). Put a circle around the faces you want to block, then click on it.

Android also has an original coding tool – in the application of images, select the image, click on the editorial tool (the second from the left at the bottom) and choose Markup (the second of the right at the bottom). You can then use the central pen tool to sabotage anything you want to cover. You can also (if available on your phone) use Magic Eraser to erase or camouflage the face: press the modification tool, choose Magic Eraser, and a circle on the face you want to block.

Then you want to get rid of descriptive data. When you take a picture on your device, Meta will be automatically attached. The easiest way to avoid this is to take footage of your photos so that the definition and vanity do not end. Also make sure to display your summary photos, and make sure that there are no other notifications or definition features in the screenshot.

The same can be done for the video. On the iPhone, instead of using the camera application, start a screen record while making your video, and use this recording instead. On most Android phones, you can use the screen record application in your quick settings.

Third -party applications that hide faces and remove the definition

Recently, there have been a large number of applications that will help hide faces and remove the descriptive data of both iOS and Android devices. You may find that it is easier to use one of these.

For example, the encrypted messaging application signal He has Lering tool for face This was combined into Android and iOS versions.

There are also popular efforts such as Photo cleaning device, Which you can use in a browser on your device to download the images to disinfect and rub them, then to save the unknown version again to your device. This is great because it works on all devices, mobile phone and desktop.

If you are already using applications to edit and improve photos, you may be able to use those to disinfect them as well. Applications like Lover (iOS) and Defect (Android) allows you pixels on the specified areas, and Trigraphy (IOS) allows you to create mosaic effects. If you want to take pictures now and remove the definition later, you can use the above applications or image applications like Halide (iOS) and Snapseed (Android).

In the end, the way you choose depends on the amount of work you want to do during or after the truth. For me, I was taking pictures, justice in the phone’s photos application, taking a screenshot – then deleting the original copies. Because if your device is opened and you have the original copies sitting there, you may have done all this work for nothing.

February 26, 2025: This article was originally published on June 5, 2020, and it was updated to calculate the changes in programs.