The best way to restore old photos on your iPhone
Faded prints, scratched portraits, blurry faces, black-and-white memories — PicFix repairs them in one tap and keeps everyone looking like themselves. Preview your restored photo free before you pay. No ads, no watermark, cancel anytime.
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What’s the best app to restore old photos? For iPhone, PicFix is built specifically for old-photo restoration: it repairs faces, scratches, fading, and blur across the whole photo, colorizes black-and-white prints, and uses a faithful identity-preserve mode so relatives still look like themselves. You can preview the restored result for free before subscribing, and your original photo is always kept.
What PicFix restores
- Faces — blurry, faded, or soft faces brought back, faithfully (no re-shaping)
- Damage — scratches, cracks, tears, water damage on old prints
- Fading & color — lift faded prints; colorize black-and-white
- Sharpness — upscale and denoise low-resolution or grainy scans
- Exposure — brighten dark, dim, underexposed shots
How to restore an old photo
- Open PicFix, tap Restore.
- Choose the old photo, or snap a picture of a printed one.
- PicFix repairs damage, fading, and blur — pick Faithful to stay closest to the original.
- Preview the result free, compare the before/after.
- Colorize if it’s black-and-white.
- Export in full quality — your original is kept.
Tip from restorers: scan or photograph the print in good, even light — a sharp input gives a far better restoration than a dim phone snapshot.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best app to restore old photos on iPhone?
PicFix is purpose-built for it — whole-photo repair, faithful faces, colorize, and a free preview before you pay.
Can I restore a photo for free?
Yes — restore and preview free; full-quality export is part of the 3-day-trial subscription.
Will restoration change the person’s face?
No — TrueFace preserves identity; Faithful mode stays closest to the original.
Can it fix scratches and water damage?
Yes — cracks, tears, scratches, and fading on old prints.
Does it keep my original?
Always. Nothing is overwritten.