How to remove location data from photos

Updated October 18, 2026

Most phones save the exact GPS position inside every photo. When you share the original file by email, a cloud link, a forum or a marketplace listing, anyone who downloads it can see where it was taken. For a photo taken at home, that's your address. This guide covers three things: checking a photo, removing the location, and stopping it being recorded in the future.

Check whether a photo contains a location

Drop the photo into Remove Location from Photo. It reads the hidden data in your browser, without uploading anything, and shows a ⚠ GPS location warning if coordinates are present. It then gives you a clean copy with all metadata removed.

iPhone

Share a photo without its location. Select the photo, tap the Share button, then tap Options at the top and turn off Location. The share sheet then shows "Location Not Included". You need to do this each time you share.

Remove the location from a photo in your library. Open the photo, open its info, choose Adjust Location (or Adjust → Location, depending on your iOS version), then No Location.

Stop recording location. Go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera and choose Never. New photos won't contain a location at all.

Android

The setting lives in your camera app, and its name depends on the phone:

For photos you've already taken, use Remove Location from Photo to make a clean copy before sharing.

Windows

Right-click the photo and choose Properties → Details → Remove Properties and Personal Information. You can either make a copy with all possible properties removed or pick which ones to remove from the original.

Mac

In the Photos app, choose File → Export and make sure Location information isn't selected in the export options. The exported copy won't include the location. Or drop the file into our tool, which works the same in any browser.

When you don't need to worry as much

Major social networks generally strip location metadata from images when you post them. The risk comes from sharing the original file: email attachments, messaging apps that send files "as documents", cloud folder links, forums, and buy-and-sell sites. When in doubt, clean the photo first. It takes seconds.

What else is removed

Cleaning a photo with our tool also removes the date and time it was taken, the phone model and other camera details. The picture itself stays the same, and it's saved at high quality the right way up.

Tools used in this guide

Remove Location from PhotoCheck whether a photo reveals where it was taken, and remove the GPS location in one click. Remove EXIF DataSee and strip hidden metadata (GPS location, camera, date) from JPG, PNG and WebP photos.

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