---
title: "Change Photo Background on iPhone: White, Blue, or Blur"
description: "Keep the subject, swap the background. PicWay finds the subject in your photo and puts it on white, blue, soft gray, dark, or a blurred background."
url: "https://picway.app/change-photo-background/"
lang: "en"
type: "feature"
updated: "2026-11-01"
published: "2026-11-01"
---

# Change Photo Background on iPhone: White, Blue, or Blur

URL: https://picway.app/change-photo-background/
Markdown: https://picway.app/change-photo-background/index.md
Last updated: 2026-11-01

To change the background of a photo on iPhone, open the photo in PicWay, tap Edit, then Cutout. PicWay finds the subject and lets you pick a new background: Blurred Background, White, Blue, Soft Gray, or Dark. Tap Reset to go back. Cutout works on still photos up to 24 megapixels, not on Live Photos or videos.

## Keep the subject. Change the background. {#top}

White, blue, soft gray, dark, or a blurred background.

## How do I change a photo’s background? {#how}

- **1. Open Cutout**: Open a photo in PicWay, tap Edit, then tap Cutout.
- **2. Pick a background**: PicWay finds the subject for you. Tap Blurred Background, White, Blue, Soft Gray, or Dark.
- **3. Save**: Save as New Photo keeps the original untouched. Changed your mind first? Tap Reset.

## Put text behind the subject {#behind}

In Markup, add text, then turn on Behind subject. The words sit behind the subject, like a magazine cover.

- **Text, boxes, and drawings**: Behind subject works for text, shapes, and drawings you add in Markup.
- **Outline and shadow**: Text can also get an Outline or a Shadow so it stands out.
- **Still photos only**: Like Cutout, Behind subject is for still photos. On a Live Photo or video, the text stays in front.

## Can’t the iPhone Photos app do this already? {#photos-app}

Partly. In Apple’s iPhone User Guide, you touch and hold the subject to copy it, make a sticker, or share it somewhere else. PicWay keeps the subject in place and changes what’s behind it, then saves the result as a photo.

- **Built on Apple’s Vision**: PicWay finds the subject with Apple’s Vision framework. You don’t trace anything by hand.
- **Change it again later**: Switching from white to blue doesn’t find the subject again from scratch. It just repaints the background.
- **Very large photos**: If the original is over 24 megapixels, the background options are turned off for that photo.

## Cutout at a glance {#specs}