Remove GPS Location from Photos
Strip GPS coordinates and location data from your photos before sharing them online. Protect your home address, workplace, and daily routines.
Why Remove GPS Data from Photos?
Every smartphone photo can contain GPS coordinates accurate to within 3 meters. When you share these photos, anyone can extract the coordinates and pinpoint the exact location — your home, your children's school, your workplace, or your vacation spot.
Location Data Privacy Risks
- Home address exposure from photos taken at home
- Workplace identification from lunch or office photos
- Travel pattern tracking from geotagged vacation photos
- Children's location exposure from family photos
- Stalking and harassment using location history
- Burglary targeting by revealing when you're away from home
How Accurate Is Photo GPS Data?
Modern smartphone GPS is accurate to 3-5 meters in ideal conditions. This means a photo taken in your living room could pinpoint your exact apartment in a building. GPS altitude data can even reveal which floor you're on.
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Removing coordinates is different from hiding a place
Illustrative example: you photograph an item for sale outside your home. A location-enabled camera writes GPS tags, while your street number is visible in the picture. The two clues need different actions. This tool cleans the supported image metadata, including more than GPS; it is not a GPS-only editor.
| Data | What it means | What to do or expect |
|---|---|---|
| GPS latitude / longitude | A machine-readable position | Removed when present |
| GPS altitude and time | Additional location context | Removed with the supported GPS metadata |
| Street number in the picture | Visible pixels | Still visible; crop or redact separately |
| Filename such as home-address.jpg | Information outside embedded metadata | Choose a neutral name before sending |
No GPS detected means no supported GPS tags were found in this file. It does not prove a photograph has never had a location, or that the scene is unrecognizable. After editing the pixels in another app, inspect that new export again: editing can add fresh metadata. Send the checked copy rather than the original beside it.
The iPhone sharing control has a narrower job
In Photos, open Share → Options and turn off Location before sending. Apple documents this control for that sharing action. It does not replace checking camera, author or software fields, and it does not edit the original in your library. Android camera location settings usually affect future captures; use a cleaned copy for an existing supported photo.
See test files, results and limits →
Sources and scope
Reviewed on . Examples explain the supported cleaner behavior; measured results are in the linked experiment. To report an error, contact us.
Photo location FAQ
How do I check if a photo has location data?
Open the photo in the metadata viewer or drop it into the tool above. If it contains GPS coordinates, the privacy summary flags the location before you clean. No GPS field means the supported metadata has no coordinates; signs, landmarks, or text in the picture can still reveal where it was taken.
How do I remove location from a photo on iPhone or Android?
With this tool, open the page in your phone’s browser, choose the photo, and save the clean copy; GPS coordinates and geotags are removed from JPG, PNG, and WebP. On iPhone you can also turn off location under Options in the share sheet before sending from Photos. On many Android phones, the camera settings let you stop saving location in new photos.
Does removing location reduce photo quality?
No. JPG, PNG, and WebP are cleaned without re-encoding, so the picture and its resolution stay the same. Only the metadata holding the coordinates and other supported fields is removed.