How to remove location data from your photos
Most phones save the GPS coordinates of every photo. Post a picture taken at home and you may be sharing your address. Here is how to check and clean your photos.
What is photo location data?
When location services are on, your camera app writes the latitude and longitude into the photo’s EXIF metadata, often accurate to a few metres. EXIF can also include the date and time, your phone model and its settings.
Check a photo in seconds
Drop it into our EXIF viewer. If a location is embedded you’ll see a red “GPS location found” warning and a link showing the spot on a map. The photo never leaves your device.
Remove it
Any device: in your browser
Use Remove GPS from photo. It strips all metadata from JPG, PNG and WebP files without re-compressing them, so quality is unchanged. Batches are supported.
iPhone
When sharing from Photos, tap Options at the top of the share sheet and turn off Location. To stop recording it at all: Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services › Camera › Never.
Android
Open the Camera app’s settings and turn off Location tags (the name varies by manufacturer). In Google Photos you can remove an estimated location from a photo’s info panel, but the safest way to send a clean file is to strip the metadata first.
Windows
Right-click the file › Properties › Details › Remove Properties and Personal Information, then choose to create a clean copy.
Mac
In the Photos app, select the photo and choose Image › Location › Hide Location before exporting.