Remove Location from Photos

Phone photos record where they were taken, down to a few metres. Open one or many to see what they give away, then save clean copies without the location or any other hidden details.

or drop them here, or paste (JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC)

Your photos never leave your device: everything happens in your browser.

How to remove the location from a photo

Open your photos

Choose, drop or paste one or more photos. Each shows what it holds, with the location in red.

Check what's inside

See the GPS position, when it was taken and on which phone or camera, before you decide.

Save clean copies

Press Save to get copies without the metadata: one photo as a file, several as a ZIP.

What's hidden in a photo, and how it's removed

Most phones store details alongside the picture, in a block called EXIF: the date and time, the phone model, the lens, and, when location is on for the camera, the GPS position where you took it. Editing apps add more in XMP blocks, and some add a caption, your name or a serial number. None of it shows on screen, but anyone with the file can read it.

For JPG, PNG and WebP files, this tool cuts those blocks out of the file and copies the picture data across byte for byte, so there's no loss of quality. Two things stay because they change how the photo looks: the colour profile, and the rotation, so a photo taken sideways still opens the right way up. Data stored after the picture, such as the video of a motion photo or an HDR brightness map, is removed too, because it can carry its own copy of the details.

HEIC, AVIF and other formats can't be edited this way in a browser, so they're redrawn and saved as a new JPG, which has no metadata at all. That needs a browser that can open the format: on iPhone, Safari can open HEIC.

Features

See before you share

Every photo lists its location, date, camera and other details, with anything personal in red.

No quality loss

JPG, PNG and WebP keep every pixel. Only the metadata is cut out of the file.

Stays the right way up

The rotation your phone recorded is kept on its own, so portraits don't turn sideways.

Whole albums at once

Open as many photos as you like and save them all as one ZIP.

Frequently asked questions

Don't Instagram and other apps remove the location anyway?

Instagram, Facebook and X are reported to strip location from the photos they publish (as of October 2026). Files you send directly are another matter: email attachments, AirDrop, cloud links, marketplace listings and WhatsApp's “send as document” usually keep everything. Cleaning a photo before it leaves your phone means you don't have to know which is which.

Is my photo uploaded?

No. The photos are read and cleaned in your browser, and the clean copies are saved straight to your device. It works with your connection turned off once the page has loaded.

Does removing metadata reduce quality?

Not for JPG, PNG or WebP: the picture data isn't touched. Other formats, like HEIC, are saved as a new JPG at high quality, which re-compresses the picture once.

How do I stop my phone adding the location?

On iPhone, go to Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services › Camera and choose Never. On Android, open the Camera app's settings and turn off location tags (the name varies by phone). Both phones also let you turn location off for a single share in the share sheet's options.

It says “No location”. Is my photo safe to share?

It means the file this page received has no GPS position in it. Some apps remove the location when they hand a photo to a website, so check the original file the same way you'll share it. The picture itself can still give a place away: street signs, house numbers or a view from your window.

Why are the clean files a little smaller?

The metadata took up space, including a small preview picture most cameras embed. A motion photo's video can be several megabytes.