{"id":1026,"date":"2026-10-23T17:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jfdi-blog-remove-location-from-photos"},"modified":"2026-10-23T17:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:29:21","slug":"remove-location-from-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/remove-location-from-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove location data from photos before posting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phone photos usually contain the GPS coordinates of where they were taken, stored as hidden <em>EXIF<\/em> data inside the file. To remove it, re-save the photo with a tool that strips that data: in the <a href=\"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/images\/\">JFDI image editor<\/a>, open the photos and download them, because <strong>Remove location and camera details<\/strong> is on by default. On an iPhone, you can also turn location off for one share using <strong>Options<\/strong> at the top of the share sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/images\/\">Remove location from photos<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s hidden in a photo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides the picture itself, a typical phone photo file holds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: latitude and longitude, often accurate to a few metres, plus altitude and the direction the camera faced.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Date and time<\/strong>, to the second.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Camera details<\/strong>: phone model, lens and settings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A small preview image<\/strong>, generated when the photo was taken. If you crop the photo in some apps, this preview can still show the uncropped original.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A photo taken at home and posted to a forum or sent as a file can tell a stranger your address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to check whether a photo has a location<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>In the image editor<\/strong>, open the photo: the line under the preview says if it contains a location.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On Windows<\/strong>: right-click the file \u203a <strong>Properties<\/strong> \u203a <strong>Details<\/strong>, and look for a GPS section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On a Mac<\/strong>: open it in Preview, choose <strong>Tools \u203a Show Inspector<\/strong>, and look for a GPS tab.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On an iPhone<\/strong>: open the photo in Photos and swipe up. A map means it has a location.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Remove it from one photo or hundreds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Open the <a href=\"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/images\/\">image editor<\/a><\/strong> and drop in your photos.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check that <strong>Remove location and camera details<\/strong> is ticked (it is by default), under <strong>Names and details<\/strong>. There&#8217;s also a <strong>Remove location<\/strong> button on the start page that sets this up for you.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leave the other settings as they are if you only want to strip the data, or resize and compress at the same time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Download all (ZIP)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The location, date, camera details and the hidden preview image are all removed. Nothing is uploaded: the photos are processed in your browser, which is rather the point when the thing you&#8217;re hiding is where you live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;ve changed nothing else and re-saving a photo would make it bigger, the editor keeps the original image data and just removes the hidden details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Removing it as you share<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>iPhone<\/strong>: in the share sheet, tap <strong>Options<\/strong> at the top and switch <strong>Location<\/strong> off. This applies to that share only.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Android<\/strong>: Google Photos has a setting to remove location from photos you share by link, under its sharing settings. Other gallery apps vary.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stop recording it<\/strong>: on an iPhone, <strong>Settings \u203a Privacy &amp; Security \u203a Location Services \u203a Camera \u203a Never<\/strong>. On Android, turn off location tags in the camera app&#8217;s settings. You&#8217;ll lose the map view of your own photos, which some people like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do social networks remove it?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest social networks generally strip location data from the copy of a photo that other people see. But plenty of routes keep it intact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>email attachments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>files sent as documents in chat apps, rather than as photos<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>links to cloud storage folders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>forums, marketplaces and smaller sites that store the original file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t rely on the platform: strip it yourself before sharing anything sensitive, such as photos of your home, your children&#8217;s school or a car with its number plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Videos too<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phone videos record a location as well. The <a href=\"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/convert\/\">JFDI file converter<\/a> removes it by default when converting a video (untick <strong>Remove the location<\/strong> under More options to keep it), while keeping the recording date so the video stays in the right place in your library. See <a href=\"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/convert-mov-to-mp4\/\">how to convert MOV to MP4<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/heic-to-jpg-without-uploading\/\">How to convert HEIC to JPG without uploading your photos<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/which-online-tools-upload-your-files\/\">Which online file tools upload your files?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/help-images.html\">The image editor guide: file names and hidden details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most phone photos record exactly where they were taken, down to a few metres. Here&#8217;s how to see it, how to strip it from one photo or hundreds, and which apps remove it for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,65,67,66],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","tag-exif","tag-gps","tag-metadata","tag-photo-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}