Hey Andrew,

I am sorry that delay of this reply,

I've help you disabled Recaptcha when user edit their profile page.

It should work fine now.

I would also appreciate the fix or please let me know where to deactivate (for backend only!) - it just makes no sense in admin backend.

Try download my attached file and replace into JoomlaFolder/media/com_easysocial/apps/fields/user/recaptcha/recaptcha.php and see how it goes.