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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, April 22, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
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.
Details
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.
Products affected
Sketch Mac App
Sources & Evidence
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Sketch: 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 (data as of 2026-04-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/70337823-90b1-40b2-a580-4c4bf594ec08. Accessed September 11, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/70337823-90b1-40b2-a580-4c4bf594ec08
- Data as of
- April 22, 2026
- Last verified
- April 22, 2026
Other practices by Sketch
ProductivitySketch offers a downloadable agent skill called 'sketch-implement-design' that instructs compatible AI coding agents to convert Sketch design frames into working frontend code by following a defined inspection and extraction workflow.ProductivitySketch integrated a built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server into its Mac app, allowing users to connect external AI coding agents — such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex — directly to their open design documents to automate tasks like exporting assets, renaming layers, swapping symbols, and generating placeholder content.
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