FaceGuard: Hide Faces
Protect Your Photo Privacy
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Not just mosaic anymore. Now with Eye Line. Switch between mosaic, blur, emoji, and eye line with one tap to protect photo privacy.
FaceGuard is a photo editing app for hiding faces in your photos.
It automatically detects face regions and lets you edit them with mosaic, blur, emoji, or eye line. You can also manually add, delete, move, and resize detected regions as needed.
Key Features
- Take a photo / choose a photo
- Automatic human face detection
- Switch between blur / mosaic / emoji / eye line
- Adjust blur/mosaic intensity and eye line color/thickness
- Apply the same style to all regions at once
- Save to device / iCloud Drive / share
- On-screen guide shown the first time you open the editor
Specifications
- Requires iOS 17 or later
- Still images only (video not supported)
- Supported formats: JPEG / PNG
- Detects human faces only
- Region shape: ellipse only
- Up to 30 regions per image
- Up to 30 saved emoji presets
About Privacy
- Image editing (face detection, mosaic processing, etc.) is performed on-device. Images are only sent externally when you explicitly choose to share or save to cloud storage.
- The app may send anonymous usage data to help improve the service; you can turn this off anytime in Settings.
Note
- Face detection results may vary depending on the photo (angle, lighting, occlusion, etc.).
Ratings & Reviews
- This app has not received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Added a new "Eye Line" editing style. In addition to Mosaic, Blur, and Emoji, you can now hide the area around the eyes with a colored band (color and thickness adjustable).
- Added an on-screen guide that explains how to use the editor the first time you open it
- Added a message when no face could be detected in a photo
- Improved the launch screen appearance in Dark Mode
- Various small usability improvements and bug fixes
The developer, MINERVA, INC., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- MINERVA, INC.
- Size
- 4.7 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 MINERVA, INC.