Sketch deployed a one-click image background removal feature in its Mac app, using Apple's on-device machine learning to automatically remove backgrounds from images placed in design documents — with no data sent to external servers.

Released in November 2025 as part of the 'Copenhagen' update (Sketch 2025.3), the feature uses Apple's Vision framework to run machine learning models locally on the user's Mac. It offers two modes: one optimized for images containing people, and another for objects. Because processing happens entirely on-device, no image data leaves the user's computer. The feature is accessible via the JavaScript plugin API as well, allowing plugin developers to call it programmatically on single or multiple image layers.