How to Remove Location Data (GPS) from Photos

Most phone photos contain hidden EXIF data, including the GPS coordinates of where they were taken — accurate enough to show your home, your child's school or your office. To check and remove it, open the EXIF Viewer & Remover, add your photos, see what each one reveals (with a link to see the location on a map), and download clean copies. The picture itself isn't re-compressed: only the hidden data goes.

Check and remove location data

1. Open the EXIF Viewer & Remover.
2. Add one or more photos — drop them, click to choose, or paste.
3. Select a photo to see its details. If it says This photo reveals where it was taken, you can see it on a map to check exactly where.
4. Leave Keep orientation and Keep colour profile ticked (so photos aren't shown sideways and colours look the same).
5. Download the cleaned photo — or all of them at once as a ZIP.

What EXIF data can reveal

• GPS location — latitude and longitude, often accurate to a few metres.
• Date and time the photo was taken, to the second.
• Phone or camera model, and sometimes its serial number.
• Lens and settings — exposure, aperture, ISO.
• Software used to edit it.
• An embedded thumbnail — which may even show the original uncropped photo.

Combined, that's a lot of personal information: where you live, when you're away, which device you own.

When it matters

• Selling things online: photos of items taken at home reveal your address to strangers.
• Posting photos of your children, especially near home or school.
• Dating profiles and forums, where you don't want people to find you.
• Sending photos to people you don't know well.
• Journalism and activism, where location can put people at risk.

Some big social networks strip EXIF data when you upload, but many places don't: email attachments, messaging apps sending "as a file" or "document", cloud shares, forums, marketplaces and websites you upload to directly.

Lossless removal — why it matters

Most metadata removers re-save the photo as a new JPG, which compresses it again and slightly lowers its quality. The EXIF Viewer & Remover rebuilds the file around the original image data instead, so the picture is bit-for-bit untouched and only the metadata is removed.

It removes EXIF (camera, settings, dates and GPS), embedded thumbnails, XMP and IPTC data (editing history, author, keywords), comments, PNG text chunks and WebP metadata.

Stop recording location in the first place

• iPhone: Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services › Camera › Never. When sharing a single photo, you can also 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 wording varies by phone).

You'll lose the handy map view in your own gallery, so many people keep location on and remove it only from photos they share.

Also hide what's visible

Removing EXIF doesn't hide what's in the photo: house numbers, street signs, car plates and school logos can give away just as much. Cover them with Pixelate Image or Blur Region before posting.

iPhone HEIC photos

If your photos are HEIC files from an iPhone, convert them to JPG with HEIC to JPG first — the converted copies can then be checked and cleaned.

Frequently asked questions

Are my photos uploaded to check them?

No. The metadata is read and removed in your browser; the photos never leave your device.

Does it change how the photo looks?

No. The image data is untouched. Keeping orientation and the colour profile (the defaults) makes sure it displays exactly as before.

Can I remove data from many photos at once?

Yes — add them all and download a ZIP of clean copies.