When I try to edit photos in the photos app of my naturist pictures to remove blemishes a pop up says safe filter applied and the area is blurred but with huge pixels. I’ve tried turning off the relevant security features but to no avail.
is there any way to disable this annoying feature?
i didn’t have this issue before updating to latest version.
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iPad Air, iPadOS 18
There is none. Safety Filter is something applied by the included (free) Photos app and that app is written by Apple. They'll need to develop a less sensitive filter.
Until they choose to, your best option would be to use photo editor from a less stodgy company that allows edits deemed "unsafe".
I got safety filter applied when removing a 5-gallon water bucket sitting next to a dog. The crop / re-crop strategy worked but frankly the safety filter clearly doesn’t. There are “walled garden” “nanny-ware” criticisms of Apple’s operating systems and software I think are overblown or silly but this is grotesque and incompetent.
Why has Apple introduced this "Safety Feature" to photos? The previous retouch function was excellent and I used to use it virtually every day. I regret up grading to Sequoia 15.1 because of this. I have been a very loyal Apple customer but I'm going to have to assess whether to continue supporting them after this.
I second the question. This is obnoxious. I should have the option to pixilate if I want and not have Apple make the decision for me. I should not have turned on Clean Up and just left Retouch working. Now, how can I go back?
Thanks for this advice. I tried this and it worked to some extent but not always. My gripe is that Apple has introduced this safety filter without giving us any choice. If I could I would revert to the earlier Sequoia prior to 15.1 which had the retouch tool which was excellent and which I used frequently to remove blemishs, spots and flaws on historic black & white photos. AI has certainly not been helpful to me so far.
I wholeheartedly concur. Why does Apple have the authority to modify my photographs? I should be the sole decision-maker regarding whether a filter is applied or not. The presence of the option in the software is rendered meaningless if I am unable to utilize it. This situation is highly frustrating.
Some users have requested a tool to blur a face before sharing photos. It is a useful addition, to be able to pixellate a face, but a bad idea to combine it with the clean-up tool, as it is preventing us from removing blemishes from a face. It should be a separate tool, in addition to a precise retouche and clone brush.
This is driving me insane. I live at the beach. People go naked at the beach. They are often friends of mine. They ask me to take a photo of them. They ask me to edit the ugly trash out of the photo without it pixelating. It's my photo, taken with permission, of friends of mine. Sometimes the only naked person in the photo is me. Sometimes there are many of us. It's a nude beach for chrissakes. Worse still is that sometimes there are zero naked people and it still pixelates!
I have never been upset with Apple in the past but the issues I'm having with the introduction of Apple AI are infuriating. I remember when SIRI was rolled out there were issues and it took a while to work the bugs out. When I updated to 15.2 all **** let loose with the Photos app to a point I am having to set up a new User. I have no idea what I am doing and I am working with an excellent Senior Advisor to get this done.
I have also encountered a problem with this feature. I was trying to remove some background distractions from a picture that I took of my HAND to track a suspicious spot that I was going to send to my dermatologist. But unfortunately I had to just delete the picture and retake it. I get the whole “explicit image monitoring” but this is ridiculous… and before anyone says anything to minimize or justify the issue, or place blame on me. It was a picture of My Hand no faces, no nudity. And it was for medical purposes.
I did try this workaround method following the instructions you described and it still wanted to put a safety filter on a dead leaf and a can instead of just removing them. 😤
Why can’t apple just make it toggleable?!?! 😒
It happens on my iMac running sequoia 15.3.1 and my iPhone 15 Pro - I just spoke with TWO Senior Apple reps and they BOTH told me that they knew nothing about it. They had no idea how to get rid of it and after spending two hours on the phone with the each of them I finally hung up!
The recent Mac update has fixed this. On macOS 15.4.1 there are now two sliders for the brush size in the cleanup tab, one for cleaning (or pixellation) and one for retouching. Click the retouch sider to avoid the safety filter.
any recommendations?
Can you suggest one that suits Mac OS?
Thanks. I'll try it out. I too am looking for something for the Mac as well.
How to disable filters while editing pictures in Photos?
