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  • A New Hope still has the censored blaster shots that were first edited in the 1997 Special Edition.
  • Fantasia still has all scenes of Sunflower (the black centaurette) cropped out or replaced with alternate footage where she's nowhere to be found. However, the infamous scenes of the topless harpies remain uncensored. This also applied to the long-awaited 2021 digital release of the film.
  • Clock Cleaners was previously censored due to a mishearing of what Donald says to the spring. Now, what he says to the spring (which to be clear is "Says who?!", which should've been made obvious by the spring's response of "Says I.") remains intact. However, Don's line after that ("I'll bust you, you doggone snake-in-the-grass!") is still replaced with random angry quacking.
  • The Return of Jafar retains the edits made to the DVD release, which censored a pair of shots of Jafar getting electrocuted in the climactic battle.
  • The Santa Clause appears to be a 4K upscale of the Blu-Ray release, which, along with most releases after 1996, is missing the dialogue about a phone sex line called "1-800-SPANK-ME".
  • The version of Pixar's Knick Knack used is the censored version made for its 2003 rerelease, where a toy mermaid's large breasts are reanimated as a flat chest.
  • The Little Mermaid includes a minor edit done to all home media releases since 2006 that erases the wedding priest's unfortunate-looking knobby knees (which were commonly mistaken as him having an erection).
  • A Goofy Movie uses the exact transfer as the 2019 Blu-Ray, which edited at least four shots.
  • The version of Toy Story 2 on the service is the 2019 4K master, which skips over one Hilarious Outtake during the credits that features Stinky Pete and two Barbie dolls in a Casting Couch situation (which was retained on all home video and digital releases prior to 2019). The scene was previously removed after Pixar's John Lasseter was accused of sexual harassment at Pixar and ousted as a result.
  • Lilo & Stitch uses the UK/Ireland version of the film, which changed the scene where Lilo is hiding inside a clothes dryer into her hiding inside a wooden cubby with a pizza box lid as the door. This edited version was also used on the 2022 Blu-Ray/DVD release.note 
  • Some of the The Disney Afternoon shows are sourced from edited copies made for Toon Disney. The TaleSpin episode "A Baloo Switcheroo", for example, is missing a shot of Don Karnage threatening Professor O'Bowens with his sword.
  • The Schoolhouse Rock! short "Electricity, Electricity" has frames removed during all the portions with the word "Electricity" flashing on the screen. This was done as a precaution to epileptic viewers whose seizures are triggered by quickly flashing lights, but the removal of the frames causes quite a contrast when you watch them alongside the portions that didn't have frames removed.
  • The Rescuers has the two frames of a topless woman in an apartment window during Orville's flight edited out, which was also the version shown on home video.
  • Initially, Splash had some newly-CGI'd Godiva Hair cover a nude Madison's butt as she runs back into the sea, plus other scenes of her nudity had her butt or breasts cropped out with zooming, and one scene involving her swimming into a sunken ship used alternate shots to cover nudity. In November 2022, a 4K remaster of the film that removes all those edits was uploaded but would reinstate in the future.
  • Hamilton is an unintentional case. It was intended for theatrical release with a PG-13 rating (and had already been submitted to the MPA). Movies with that rating are only allowed one use of the word "fuck", so the other few uses in the play have their audio censored. Everything else, like Alexander Hamilton's affair with Maria Reynolds, is otherwise uncensored.
  • The Wizards of Waverly Place episode "Baby Cupid" censors a bit of Theresa Russo's cleavage, due to Disney+ using a print from a 2009 rerun that has since become the standard on digital releases.
  • The Shake it Up episode "Party It Up" is the edited version that gets rid of any reference to a character having an eating disorder, due to complaints from Demi Lovato.
  • India's Disney+ Hotstar, which is Disney+ In Name Only, carries HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where it has (somewhat clumsily) censored crude jokes mocking Disney-owned characters. Oliver noticed and made fun of the platform in a later episode of the series.
  • The Small One retains the edits done for the DVD release, which changed the lyrics in "The Merchant's Song" to be less anti-Semitic and altered the star in the ending to look less like a cross.
  • The A.N.T. Farm episode "The informANT" uses the toned-down version that edits or omits moments of Officer 3-9's Police Brutality following complaints.
  • Adventures in Babysitting is present with the TV broadcast, meaning changes of "Thor's a homo" to "Thor's a weirdo" and the Precision F-Strike moments to "fool".
  • The Simpsons episode "Marge Gets a Job" maintains the TV broadcast's replacement of "Tourette's" with "rabies".
  • In 2022, it was revealed an episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier had several scenes modified to censor violence, with blood splatter removed from one shot (and the dead character now having his eyes closed instead of open), and another shot showing an assailant merely being struck by a thrown pipe instead of being impaled by it. After fan outcry, Disney+ claimed the upload of the altered scenes had been the result of a software glitch and restored the original version.
  • The English dub of O11CE censors a whole subplot about a gay character who tries to get close to his male crush. Worse, they originally left it intact when it aired in the UK and the changes were not reverted when the series was released in the United States. The original Spanish audio was not affected by this change.
  • In Free Solo, the phrase "fucked up" is changed to "messed up", and the word "goddamn" is also censored.
  • In The Adventures Of Bullwhip Griffin, the word "coolie" is censored in one scene.
  • In The Emperor's New Groove, a rock that is thrown at someone is changed to an acorn. This was due to said film using the Blu-ray master.

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