FaceApp is a mobile application that utilizes AI neural network technology to automatically transform pictures to make you look older, younger or make a smile or change gender in photographs. The app is developed by a Russian company Wireless Lab. It is not a camera app but a selfie-editing app that collects pictures available in your phone and upload them to cloud, ages them or apply filters you selected and return back to you. The picture can then be saved in your device. The highly advanced neural portrait editing technology in this app help you improve your selfie shots with state of the art Artificial Intelligence. It has been around since 2017 but it’s recent trend was caused by the new “aging” filter that was added to the app editing tools. Now a lot of celebrities all over the world are using FaceApp application to create a photo collage of their future old selves.

FEATURES OF FACEAPP PRO

One of the funniest and trending features of FaceApp is the old age effects which is available in the free version of the app. This effect will magically transform you into your older self in future. With this filter, a 20 year old can appear as old as an 80 year old man or woman. Just checkout the photographs of what some top footballers will look like in their old age. This was made possible with FaceApp for Android. It’s fun to use FaceApp because you can use it to also change your hair color, hair styling, add beers, add sunglasses and other free amazing transformations. Additionally, the FaceApp Pro version unlocks more premium features such as full beards, goatee, petite goatee, grand goatee, shaved beards, mustache, lion, Hollywood effects, waves on pictures.

Other features available in the latest Pro version of Face App camera includes blond, red, brown and tinted hair colors. Also in the premium version, you will have several hairstyle effects such as bangs, side swept, straight bangs, hitman, long, wavy and straight cut hairstyles.

The pro version come also loaded with black sunglasses effect which can be applied to your picture to make you look more cute and beautiful. The interesting part is it’s very hard to notice that sunglass is artificially added to the pics. With the app, ladies can easily apply different types of makeups to their pictures as seen below.

It also comes with over 20 different filters to change the color, hue, exposure of your images. Do you love black and white (B&W) pictures? This app can also transform your photo to real black and white photo within seconds. Another amazing feature of FaceApp for Android and iPhone is the collection of beautiful backgrounds you can use to change your the background of your pictures with just a single tap. Apply overlay, vignettes, and tattoos to your face and body. Other photo adjustments features are brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature, sharpen, grain etc. Lest I forget, it also comes with photo cropping tools. In the pro version of the app, watermarks is removed and you enjoy the flexibility of using more tools.

SUMMARY OF FACE APP PRO FEATURES

Improve

• Hollywood-ready selfies with the Impression filters • Change hair color and style • Apply perfect evening or day makeup • Find your perfect beard/mustache style • Add a beautiful smile • Replace background with a single tap • Apply color filters, lens blur, and numerous other tools

Have fun

• Swap genders • Let AI find your best hairstyle and color • Change your age • Add amazing tattoos • Let AI find the best style for you • Check out the Hitman, the Heisenberg filters and many other mind-blowing transformations

WHAT’S NEW

  • Old filters
  • Introduced new Editor tool: Overlay
  • Updated processing of in-app purchases
  • New improvements
  • Fixed some problems

APP INFORMATION

Name: FaceApp Latest Version: 10.0.0 Developer: Wireless Lab Offered By: FaceApp Inc. App Size: 12.43 MB Genre: Photography, Tools Latest Update: January 10, 2022 Supported Platforms: Android & iOS Minimum Requirements: Android 5.0 or higher and iOS 7.0 or higher Downloads: 100,000,000+ on google play store Rating: 4.8/5

DOWNLOAD LINKS FOR ANDROID & IOS

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ISSUES WITH FACEAPP

Although the app is a very useful tool that helps everyone including non professional photographers to apply professional effects on photographs at ease, there are still some question marks about the app as will be discussed below.

1. It doesn’t work offline

FaceApp will not work if you don’t have internet connection on your phone while trying to use it. So you must either connect to an active wifi or have data bundle with good network else, you won’t be able to use it.

2. Fear of users privacy

Both Washingtonpost and theguardian has published articles that suggests that the Russian owned app might be using this trick to collect users photographs illegally thereby bridging privacy rights. Some organizations has already sent warnings to the public and urging them to delete the app from their phone. On Monday 15, July 2019, a software developer, Joshua Nozzi warned people to “BE CAREFUL WITH FACEAPP” after the #faceappchallenge went viral on social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. But one thing is certain, FaceApp shares information about your phone to admob, Facebook, Instagram and Google, probably for better ads serving purposes.

USER PRIVACY UPDATE!!!

Because of the serious privacy concerns, FaceApp CEO, yesterday, addressed the issue with the following points. “1. FaceApp performs most of the photo processing in the cloud. We only upload a photo selected by a user for editing. We never transfer any other images from the phone to the cloud. 2. We might store an uploaded photo in the cloud. The main reason for that is performance and traffic: we want to make sure that the user doesn’t upload the photo repeatedly for every edit operation. Most images are deleted from our servers within 48 hours from the upload date. 3. We accept requests from users for removing all their data from our servers. Our support team is currently overloaded, but these requests have our priority. For the fastest processing, we recommend sending the requests from the FaceApp mobile app using “Settings->Support->Report a bug” with the word “privacy” in the subject line. We are working on the better UI for that. 4. All FaceApp features are available without logging in, and you can log in only from the settings screen. As a result, 99% of users don’t log in; therefore, we don’t have access to any data that could identify a person. 5. We don’t sell or share any user data with any third parties. 6. Even though the core R&D team is located in Russia, the user data is not transferred to Russia. Additionally, we’d like to comment on one of the most common concerns: all pictures from the gallery are uploaded to our servers after a user grants access to the photos (for example, https://twitter.com/joshuanozzi/status/1150961777548701696). We don’t do that. We upload only a photo selected for editing. You can quickly check this with any of network sniffing tools available on the internet.”

How to Remove Your Data from the FaceApp Server

For transparency, FaceApp urged users who wish to remove all their data from the company’s server to follow these step below; Your data collected by FaceApp will be wiped out.

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So the ball is in your court, the app is amazing, fun, tempting to have as a photo tool and useful but you need to thread with caution as all that glitters are not gold.