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# Redact screenshots

Drag a solid bar over a password, key or email. Nothing under the bar survives.

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![A screenshot with an email address covered by a solid black bar](https://clacky.app/features27/shot-redact-light.webp)![A screenshot with an email address covered by a solid black bar](https://clacky.app/features27/shot-redact-dark.webp)

## What it is

Redact covers part of a screenshot with a solid bar. Nothing under the bar survives in the copy you share or save.

Blur and Pixelate are there too, but blur can be undone; a solid fill can’t. For passwords, keys and tokens, use Redact.

## How to use it

1.  1
    
    Open the shot
    
    Take a screenshot; it opens in the editor.
    
2.  2
    
    Pick Redact
    
    Choose Redact in the toolbar, or press D.
    
3.  3
    
    Drag over it
    
    Drag a bar over the password, key or email.
    
4.  4
    
    Copy or save
    
    Press ⌘C or ⌘S. The shared copy has the bar baked in.
    

## Tips

-   Grab Text in the editor reads the marked-up shot, so text under a Redact bar isn’t copied.

## Questions

Why not just blur it?

Blurred text can sometimes be recovered. A solid bar leaves nothing to recover.

Can I hide things in videos too?

Yes. Studio has its own Redact tab for recordings, with Blur, Pixelate or a solid Bar.

Related features

-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/shot-editor-light.webp)![](https://clacky.app/features27/shot-editor-dark.webp)
    
    [Screenshot editor](https://clacky.app/features/screenshot-editor/)
    
    Grab an area, a window or the whole screen. Mark it up with arrows, steps, text and blur, then copy or save.
    
-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/copy-only-light.webp)
    
    [Copy only](https://clacky.app/features/copy-only/)
    
    Mark up a shot, press ⌘C and it’s copied, with nothing left in your folder. Click Save when you want to keep it.
    
-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/find-private-light.webp)![](https://clacky.app/features27/find-private-dark.webp)
    
    [Find private info](https://clacky.app/features/find-private/)
    
    Clacky reads the screen in your recording, on your Mac, finds emails, phone numbers, card numbers, keys and IP addresses, and Hide all covers them.
    
-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/studio-redact-light.webp)![](https://clacky.app/features27/studio-redact-dark.webp)
    
    [Redact video](https://clacky.app/features/video-redact/)
    
    Drag a box over something private: Blur, Pixelate or a solid Bar, for as long as you like. It follows the zoom.
    

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