{"id":185218,"date":"2022-03-09T12:25:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=185218"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:54:08","slug":"blur-tool-whatsapp-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/blur-tool-whatsapp-android\/","title":{"rendered":"The blur tool is coming to WhatsApp for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WhatsApp <\/strong>is finally adding the <strong>blur tool<\/strong> to <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatsApp for Android<\/a> as part of its effort to redesign its drawing editor. This feature will now allow users to blur out sensitive data that may be displayed when they share images on the app. Additionally, the drawing editor will get <strong>two new pencils<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This particular feature has long been included in <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatsApp for iOS<\/a> and will soon be available for testing via <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp-beta.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatsApp Beta<\/a>. While it\u2019s strange that the tool hadn\u2019t been offered to the Android version before, it\u2019s at least a good sign that WhatsApp is now letting more users access it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blur tool\u2019s use is pretty straightforward, thanks to the drawing editor\u2019s easy-to-use redesigned interface. Its button can be accessed on the <strong>bottom-right corner<\/strong> of the screen and lets you draw onto the image to start obscuring whatever parts you want hidden. These could be <strong>sensitive information<\/strong> like phone numbers, names, or even profile pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>new drawing editor<\/strong> also includes two new pencil thicknesses, making your options a total of three pencils on the bottom bar. They\u2019re right next to the blur tool and you can easily switch between pencils as you draw. Both of these features <strong>will be released together<\/strong> as the whole update for the drawing editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, there\u2019s still no news as to when it\u2019s slated for a public beta release. It shouldn\u2019t be too hard of a feature to develop, though, as the iOS version already had it for some time now. Regardless of when it\u2019ll be available for the beta, it\u2019s now definitely one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/articles\/new-whatsapp-features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatsApp features we\u2019re looking forward to<\/a> this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: WABetaInfo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is finally adding the blur tool to WhatsApp for Android as part of its effort to redesign its drawing editor. This feature will now allow users to blur out sensitive data that may be displayed when they share images on the app. Additionally, the drawing editor will get two new pencils.\u00a0 This particular feature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/blur-tool-whatsapp-android\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The blur tool is coming to WhatsApp for Android&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9229,"featured_media":185219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-185218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324283,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185218\/revisions\/324283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185218"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=185218"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=185218"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=185218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}