Remove location from photos

Most phone photos record exactly where they were taken. Delete the GPS location, along with camera and date details, before you send or post the file.

JPEG, PNG and WebP are cleaned on your device and never uploaded.

What a phone photo can reveal
GPS
51.5079, −0.0877, 14 m
Date
2026:10:12 08:41:05
Camera
Apple iPhone 16 Pro
Lens
Back camera 6.86 mm f/1.78

After cleaning, all four are gone. The photo is unchanged.

Why photos give away where you are

When location access is on for the camera, your phone writes GPS coordinates into every photo's EXIF data, usually accurate to a few meters. Anyone who gets the original file can open it on a map. Photos taken at home, at school or at work can show where you live and spend your days, even when nothing in the picture gives it away.

How to remove the location from a photo

  1. Add your photos

    Drop, choose or paste up to five images above. A GPS section shows whether a photo has a location.

  2. Remove the metadata

    Select Remove metadata. The location, camera and date tags are cut out of the file.

  3. Download the clean copy

    Share the downloaded file instead of the original.

Stop your phone adding a location

  • iPhone: go to Settings, Privacy & Security, Location Services, Camera, and choose Never. For a single share, tap Options at the top of the share sheet and turn off Location.
  • Android: open the Camera app's settings and turn off location tags (the name varies by phone). In Google Photos, the share sheet can remove the location from the shared copy.
  • Cameras: GPS is usually added by a companion phone app. Turn off location sync in that app.

These settings only affect new photos. Photos already on your phone keep their location until you remove it.

Where the location is kept

Large social networks remove GPS data from the copy they publish, but many other ways of sharing keep the original file as it is:

  • Email attachments and cloud links, such as Google Drive, Dropbox and iCloud
  • Messaging apps when you send a photo as a file or document
  • Marketplaces, forums, blogs and personal websites
  • AirDrop and USB transfers

Want to keep a location, but a different one? The geotag tool can change or remove only the GPS tags, and the metadata viewer shows exactly what a photo still contains.

Questions

Does removing the location change the photo?

No. The location is stored in a metadata block next to the image, not in the image itself. The tool cuts that block out and copies the image data unchanged, so quality and size stay the same.

Does Instagram or Facebook show my location?

Instagram, Facebook and X remove EXIF data, including GPS, from the copy they publish. Email, cloud links, forums, marketplaces and messaging apps that send photos as files often keep it. Cleaning the photo first means it does not matter where you share it.

Can I remove only the location and keep the rest?

This tool removes all metadata at once: location, camera, date and AI markers. To keep the other details, open the photo in the geotag tool and select Remove location, which deletes only the GPS tags.

Can I clean iPhone HEIC photos?

Yes. Add HEIC photos straight from your iPhone. They are cleaned on our server with ExifTool and come back as HEIC with no location data.

How do I check that the location is gone?

Add the cleaned file to the metadata viewer. If no GPS section appears, the location has been removed.

Are my photos uploaded?

JPEG, PNG and WebP files are read and cleaned by your browser and never leave your device. HEIC and TIFF files are sent over an encrypted connection to our server, where ExifTool cleans them. Each upload is deleted as soon as you download the clean copy, and always within 30 minutes. Images are never stored, shared or used for training.