You can blur any part of a picture after you've taken it using a third-party app for iPhone or Android.

If your smartphone’s camera does not offer a portrait mode, or you don’t like the result of it, there is a way around it. Google Photos added this feature a while back. You can basically use the app ...

Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1 introduces a background blur effect in the app drawer, keyguard, and other areas. Activating Battery Saver will disable the background blur effect. Background blur consumes more ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

If you’re a fan of background blur, Google’s new Material 3 Expressive design is something to look out for. As part of that revamp, Google is adding background blur to the notification panel, Quick ...

Lock screen widgets on Android may soon get the slick background blur effect. The visual change was spotted in the new Android Canary build and should align it with Google’s new Material Expressive 3 ...

This year’s Material 3 Expressive aesthetic looks great, but only if the heavy background blur doesn’t make things hard for you to read. If it does, a new Android test build includes a toggle to ...