How to Blur Pictures on iPhone

Taking a picture by focusing the entire camera on the main subject and blurring the surroundings creates a powerful visual effect. Fortunately, your iPhone is more than enough to achieve blurred backgrounds for capturing the striking “bokeh” effect. Also, sometimes you might need to hide someone or something from your photos. So, it is important to know how to blur pictures on iPhone.

Here in this guide, we’ll explore how to blur a picture on iPhone using both third-party and native apps.

Install the Blur Photo Editor app to blur parts of your picture on your iPhone.

How to blur pictures on iPhone with a third-party app

If you’re looking to learn how to blur the background of a picture on an iPhone, then you should try a dedicated photo editing app. The Blur Photo Editor is one such app. With this, you’ll have access to a large collection of photo blurring effects. This includes normal blur, pixelate, mosaic, and many more. It also is acknowledged as one of the best blur photo background apps for iPhone.

Do you want to find out the best methods on how to blur pictures on iPhone? Then, install the Blur Photo Editor for free from the App Store to blur photos on your iPhone.

Steps on how to blur pictures on iPhone with the Blur Photo Editor app:

How to blur part of a picture on iPhone using the Blur Photo Editor app

Launch the “Blur Photo Editor” app.
Next, choose the picture that you’d want to blur.
Select a blurring effect that you’d like by tapping on the photo filter icon (three overlapping circles icon). There are effects such as normal blur, pixelate, Hexa pixel, and many more.
To blur a part of a picture, use your finger to apply blurring effect.
To blur the background of your photo, tap on the shutter icon. Then select Normal, Circle, or Band for different background blur effects.

How to blur pictures on iPhone with the Photos app

Another way to blur pictures on your iPhone is from your Photos app. However, there are some limitations that you’d have to face. First, you can only blur images that had been captured in the portrait mode. And second, you can only blur the background of your portrait mode photos. There are two ways on how to blur the background in pictures in the Portrait mode. You can either adjust the depth control of your portrait mode photos or edit the portrait lighting effects.

You cannot blur parts of a picture that you’d want to hide. However, you can use the markup tool from the Photos app to blackout unwanted sections of your image to censor it. In this section of the guide, we’ve explored both ways.

Steps on how to blur the background in a picture on iPhone using the Photos app:

Steps on how to blur the background of a photo on iPhone using your Photos app

Start your iPhone’s Photos app.
Select a portrait mode picture and view it on full-screen.
Then tap on Edit.
To blur your photo’s background using the portrait lighting effect, tap on the Portrait Lighting Control icon. Next, choose the lighting effect that gives you your desired background blur. The offered lighting effects are Natural Light, Studio Light, Contour Light, Stage Light, Stage Light Mono, and High-key Light Mono.
To blur your photo’s background by adjusting the depth control, tap on the Depth Adjustment button located at the top-left of your screen. Next, a depth control slider also appears. Drag the slider to your left to blur the background of your photo.
After that, tap on Done to save your picture.

Steps on how to black out something in a picture on iPhone using the Markup tool:

Steps on how to black out something in a picture on iPhone with the markup tool

Open the Photos app.
Select the image whose part you’d want to hide.
Tap on Edit.
Next, tap on the Markup icon located at the top-right of the screen.
Then tap on a marker and use your fingers to black out parts of your photo.
After that, tap on Done to save your changes.
Finally, tap on Done again to save your picture.

Conclusion

The most common purpose for blurring the background or parts of a image is to make the subject stand out in a photo. However, blurring a picture may also be used to obscure license plates or make people unidentifiable. This feature is a great thing to have for your iPhone. Though you can apply blur using your iPhone’s native Photos app, the Blur Photo Editor app offers better results.