Remove GPS Location from Photo Online

Every modern smartphone has a GPS chip. When the Camera app has location permission, it reads your current coordinates at the moment you press the shutter and writes them into the photo file as part of the EXIF metadata block. This happens silently without any indication on screen.

The coordinates stay in the file forever unless you remove them. Copying the photo to another device keeps the GPS. Uploading to cloud storage keeps it. Emailing it keeps it. Only some social platforms strip it on upload, and those are the exception rather than the rule.

If a stranger downloads a photo you posted, they can extract the GPS coordinates in less than 30 seconds using free software. They paste the coordinates into Google Maps and see exactly where you were when you took the photo. If multiple photos were taken at the same location across days or weeks, that location is almost certainly your home, workplace, or a place you frequent.

Real-world cases: a Dropbox employee was stalked after photos he posted to Facebook revealed his home address. A celebrity's home was robbed after they posted vacation photos with timestamps and GPS showing they were out of town. A reporter's source was identified by intelligence services from EXIF GPS in an evidence photo. Removing GPS before sharing prevents all of these.

Sometimes other EXIF data has value. Photographers want to keep camera and lens info as proof of their gear. Journalists may want to keep timestamps as proof of when a photo was taken. Real estate agents need to prove a listing photo is recent. In all of these cases, you can keep camera info and capture date while stripping only GPS.

In the strip options panel below, check GPS but leave EXIF unchecked. The output file will keep make, model, ISO, shutter, aperture, and date, but the location coordinates and altitude will be gone. This is the default preset for this page.