When the camera on your phone has location turned on, every photo records where it was taken, often to within a few metres. That is handy in your own albums. It is less handy in a photo of your sofa on a selling site, or of your children outside your home.
This page is set up to remove location from photo files and nothing else. Remove is set to Location only, so the GPS position comes out while the date, the camera and the other details stay exactly as they were. The picture is not re-saved, so every pixel stays the same. It works on JPG photos, in your browser.
How a photo knows where it was taken
A phone writes its GPS position into the photo's details at the moment you take it: the latitude, the longitude and sometimes the height. That is called a geotag. It sits in the EXIF block, next to the date and the camera model, and most apps can read it.
- Selling online: a photo of an item taken at home can show the buyer where you live.
- Family photos: a picture of a child in the garden or at the school gate shows where they spend their day.
- Dating and forums: a photo sent to someone you have not met can give away more than you meant to.
- Work: a site photo or a photo of a document can show where a meeting or a visit took place.
Why not remove everything? Because the rest is often useful. The date keeps your photos in order, and the camera and exposure details matter to photographers. Location only takes out the one detail that says where, and leaves the rest for you.
How to remove the location from a photo
- Press Select images and choose a JPG photo, or several.
- Read Found in this photo. If the photo has a geotag, Location shows Yes with the latitude and longitude, and the chip on the picture says Location found.
- Check that Remove is set to Location only. The panel says: Only the location is taken out. The camera, the date and the other details stay.
- Read the Result line, for example JPG · same pixels · 2.31 MB → 2.31 MB.
- Press Remove details and save. The file name ends in _no-location.jpg.
If the photo has no location to begin with, the button is blocked with the reason: Nothing to remove: this photo has no location details. The chip says No location, and the photo is safe to share as far as its position goes.
The latitude and longitude in the panel are rounded to five decimal places. That is still precise to about a metre, which shows how much a geotag can give away.
What Location only changes, and what it leaves alone
Rebuilding a photo's details from scratch can damage the parts a camera maker writes in its own way. So here, to remove GPS from a photo, the change is made in place, and the rest of the file is left alone:
- The GPS details are overwritten with zeros where they sit, and the pointer to them is taken out.
- The EXIF block keeps its length, so every other detail in it, including the camera maker's own notes, stays byte for byte.
- An XMP block that mentions GPS is dropped as a whole, because it can hold the same coordinates a second time.
- The picture data is copied unchanged, so every pixel is exactly what it was.
This matters most for photos from dedicated cameras, whose makers store their own settings in a private layout inside the EXIF block. Move things around in that block and other apps may no longer read those settings. Zeroing the GPS where it sits avoids the problem.
That is why the size barely moves. Usually it stays the same to the byte; it drops a little when an XMP block with GPS goes. The Done row tells you what happened, for example Removed: location · 2.3 MB.
Photos that are not JPG
Location only edits the details of a JPG, the format most phone photos are shared in. For other formats, the option shows JPG only and cannot be picked, and Remove uses Everything instead.
| Your photo | What you can do | What stays |
|---|---|---|
| JPG | Location only | Every other detail and every pixel |
| PNG or WebP | Everything, without re-saving | Every pixel; the rotation and the colour profile if you keep them |
| HEIC, AVIF or TIFF | Everything; saved as a JPG at high quality | The picture, with no details at all |
If you need to remove GPS from photo files in those formats, Remove EXIF data takes out every detail, location included. An iPhone HEIC photo can also be turned into a JPG with HEIC to JPG, which carries no details at all, so the date goes too. In a batch set to Location only, a photo that is not a JPG is not changed, and its row says why.
Check before you share
To be sure, open the saved photo in View EXIF data. Its Summary has no Location line any more, the Location group is gone from the list of fields, and the chip on the picture says No location. The date, the camera and the exposure are still there.
Doing a whole album? Select up to 100 JPG photos at once. The button reads Clean 20 pictures or however many you chose, and Save all as ZIP saves them together. A photo with no location is passed through untouched, and its row says Nothing to remove.
Your originals are never changed. Keep them for your own albums, where the place can be useful, and share the copies that end in _no-location. That way you only remove the location from a photo where it would be seen by others.
Your photos and their location data are read and changed inside your browser, and never sent to us. It is free, with no account. The privacy page explains the rest.
Take the location out of your photo now
To remove location from photo files and keep everything else, open your JPG, check that Found in this photo shows a location, and press Remove details with Location only selected. The geotag goes; the date, the camera and every pixel stay.
Select your photos above. It is free, and nothing is uploaded.
