# Redact Shield — Photo privacy redaction

> Photo privacy redaction (iPhone/iPad app by Robert Corbin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/redact-shield/id6770579291 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Robert Corbin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992)
- Category: Photo & Video, Utilities
- Price: $3.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-22
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/redact-shield/id6770579291/reviews.md

## What is Redact Shield?

Redact Shield is a local-first photo redaction tool for quickly hiding sensitive details before you send, save, or post an image.

Choose a photo, camera capture, demo image, or pasted image, then mask private areas with blur, pixelation, or black bars. Auto detection uses Apple Vision on-device to help locate faces and readable text. You stay in control of the final export.

Pro privacy workflow tools:

- Shield Audit checks detected faces and text against current masks.
- Coverage score highlights whether a detected region appears covered.
- Open findings can be masked with one tap.
- Copyable audit report summarizes detections, covered items, and review-needed items.
- Manual brush controls, undo, redo, clear, and three masking styles.
- Redacted exports are flattened into a new image only when you choose to share or save.

Redact Shield does not require an account, does not upload your images to a developer server, and does not use tracking.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0.2 — 2026-08-21

Adds Shield Audit for checking detected faces and text against current masks, highlighting open findings, applying one-tap masks, and producing a copyable local audit report before export.

### 2.0.1 — 2026-06-26

This update sharpens the interface: the iPad layout now uses a centered, comfortable reading width instead of stretching edge to edge, plus small display fixes. iPhone is unchanged.

### 2.0 — 2026-06-21

Redact Shield 2.0 — a pro upgrade for truly irreversible redaction, still 100% offline.

• Find & Mask: redact every occurrence of a word or regex with solid bars, using on-device text detection.
• Reusable keyword presets for the terms you redact again and again.
• New irreversible mask styles: static noise and opaque emoji cover (blur and pixelate can be reversed — these can't).
• Safe-to-Share gate: blocks export while any sensitive info is uncovered or a reversible mask remains, with one-tap fixes.
• Redaction Certificate: a tamper-evident SHA-256 receipt of what was masked and that metadata was stripped.
• Precision Loupe magnifier for masking tiny text exactly.

No account, no network — every image and redaction stays on your device.

### 1.4 — 2026-06-15

Redact Shield 1.4 adds precision tools for real-world documents.

Pinch-to-zoom: zoom up to 6× in the editor to mask tiny text on IDs, receipts, and boarding passes with accuracy — export whenever you're ready, zoom state does not affect the exported image.

Rectangle tool: draw a precise box over any area to cover it in one gesture. Works alongside the brush and all three mask styles.

Custom profiles: build and save your own named PII-type presets. Pick exactly which fields to auto-mask for any document type you work with regularly. Profiles persist across sessions.

### 1.3 — 2026-06-13

Redact with confidence. New — smart on-device detection of emails, cards, phone numbers and IDs (tap a box to mask), irreversible solid redaction by default, EXIF/GPS metadata stripping on export, redaction profiles, batch mode, and a privacy learn library. Fully offline. No account, no ads, no tracking.

## More apps by Robert Corbin

- [Daily Word Journey](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daily-word-journey/id6761548266)
- [Hush Secret Text](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hush-secret-text/id6761658175)
- [Renew Guard](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/renew-guard/id6761755447)
- [Receipt to PDF](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/receipt-to-pdf/id6761782025)
- [Route Your Pay](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/route-your-pay/id6761783719)
- [Tip Arbiter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tip-arbiter/id6761786879)

All apps by Robert Corbin: https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992

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