# Feature request | Ability to disable Face Recovery in Photo Restoration

**URL:** <https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-ability-to-disable-face-recovery-in-photo-restoration/104884>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Tags:** reviewed\
**Created:** [September 7, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-ability-to-disable-face-recovery-in-photo-restoration/104884 "2026-09-07T16:23:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![wardak093](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/wardak093/32/261288_2.png) [@wardak093](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/wardak093)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-ability-to-disable-face-recovery-in-photo-restoration/104884/1 "2026-09-07T16:23:36Z")

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It would be helpful to have an option to completely disable face restoration for the “Photo Restoration” feature in the web app. I use Topaz Photo AI for this purpose when working with individual people.  
It often happens that the AI mistakenly identifies a woman’s face as a man’s in old photos and adds a beard or mustache, ruining the entire photo (Face Recovery in Topaz Photo does the same thing, which is why I completely skip face restoration in that case).