Cover licence plates, VIN numbers, house numbers and street signs before a photo goes online - on iPhone, iPad or Mac, with every cover reviewed by you and nothing leaving the device.
Switch between Strict, Balanced and Thorough and rescan without reopening the photo. Strict takes only what it is certain about, Balanced is the default and catches most plates without touching unrelated text, Thorough digs for small and half-blurred plates and will sometimes cover a sign you did not care about.
How confident the app is in what it read. A low number on a plate usually means the angle is steep or the image is soft - worth checking that one by eye before you accept it. The list exists so nothing is covered without you seeing it first.
Brush over it by hand. The brush and the eraser are both free, so you can paint what was missed and remove any cover that went too far. Pro adds a box tool when you want a straight rectangle rather than a brush stroke.
For a listing photo, blur or pixels at moderate strength keep the picture looking normal. For anything going on a public forum, use the solid bar or the stamped REDACTED label - they replace the area rather than smudging it, so there is nothing left to reconstruct.
Batch, in Pro. Pick a preset, point it at the folder, and every photo comes out with the same treatment - which is how a car listing with twelve angles actually arrives.
Yes. Right-click the file in Finder and choose Redact with Plate Blur AI, or Hide Plates and VIN. There are also two Shortcuts actions, one for a single image and one for a folder, so it can sit inside a larger automation.
Turn on EXIF and GPS stripping at export, in Pro. This is the step people skip: the plate is covered, the house number is covered, and the file still says exactly where it was taken.
Thorough mode looks for readable text aggressively, which is the point of it. Either drop that entry from the list before applying, erase it afterwards, or rescan on Balanced.
Never automatically. There is a manual face cover in Pro for someone who walked into the background, and it only runs when you ask. If faces are the main job, Face Blur AI is built for that instead.
iPhone on iOS 17, iPad on iPadOS 17, or a Mac on macOS 14, and later versions of each. No account, and no network connection is required at any point.
Find and cover plates, VIN numbers and addresses in photos and video - on device, nothing uploaded.
The aim is a listing that shows the car clearly and does not publish the registration alongside it.
Cover the VIN as well as the plate. It is on the windscreen sticker in a lot of listing photos, and it identifies the car more precisely than the registration does.
Try this in Plate Blur AI: Cars & Homes →Video is the case where doing it by hand is genuinely not possible.
If the footage is going to an insurer or the police as well as online, keep the untouched original. Redact the copy you publish, not the copy that has to be evidence.
Try this in Plate Blur AI: Cars & Homes →A front door photo often carries three identifiers at once: the number, the street sign, and a parked car.
Covering the house number and leaving GPS coordinates in the file achieves nothing. The metadata is the more precise identifier of the two.
Try this in Plate Blur AI: Cars & Homes →Worth doing once, on the settings you plan to reuse, rather than on every photo.
Light blur and fine pixelation are partly reversible - a mild blur is a mathematical operation that can be undone. A solid bar or a stamped label is not, because the original pixels are gone.
Try this in Plate Blur AI: Cars & Homes →Our support team usually replies within one business day.
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