How to blur an existing image in a UIImageView with Swift?

The setup is simple.

• A ViewController with UIImageView that has an image assigned.
• A UIButton that when clicked blurs the image in the UIImageView.

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var bg: UIImageView!

    @IBAction func blur(_ sender: Any) {
        let inputImage = CIImage(cgImage: (bg.image?.cgImage)!)

        let filter = CIFilter(name: "CIGaussianBlur")
        filter?.setValue(inputImage, forKey: "inputImage")
        filter?.setValue(10, forKey: "inputRadius")
        let blurred = filter?.outputImage
        bg.image = UIImage(ciImage: blurred!)
    }
}

When the button is clicked the screen just turns white. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

You could simply use UIVisualEffect to achieve blur effect. As you trying to achieve a blur effect using CoreImage.Try below code after import CoreImage to your class.

var context = CIContext(options: nil)

func blurEffect() {

    let currentFilter = CIFilter(name: "CIGaussianBlur") 
    let beginImage = CIImage(image: bg.image!)
    currentFilter!.setValue(beginImage, forKey: kCIInputImageKey)
    currentFilter!.setValue(10, forKey: kCIInputRadiusKey)

    let cropFilter = CIFilter(name: "CICrop")
    cropFilter!.setValue(currentFilter!.outputImage, forKey: kCIInputImageKey)
    cropFilter!.setValue(CIVector(cgRect: beginImage!.extent), forKey: "inputRectangle")

    let output = cropFilter!.outputImage 
    let cgimg = context.createCGImage(output!, from: output!.extent)
    let processedImage = UIImage(cgImage: cgimg!)
    bg.image = processedImage
}

Output:

Note: I recommend you to test the code in real device as Simulator performance is too slow on coreImage.