Remove GPS Data From Your Photos
Of everything hiding in a photo's metadata, GPS is the field that can hurt you. A geotagged photo doesn't say 'taken somewhere in the city' — it stores coordinates precise to a few metres. Post it, and you've published a street address.
This tool shows you the geotag on a map, then removes it — along with the rest of the metadata — without the photo ever leaving your browser.
JPG, PNG and WebP · geotag shown on a map before you decide
How GPS ends up inside your photos
Phones embed a GPS fix into every photo by default when location access is granted to the camera app — most people enabled it years ago, on a setup screen, and forgot. The coordinates land in a dedicated GPS section of the photo's EXIF block: latitude, longitude, often altitude and timestamp too.
It's genuinely useful inside your own photo library ('show me every photo from that trip'). It becomes a liability the moment the file leaves your devices, because everything in the file travels with it.
What a leaked geotag actually exposes
A single geotagged photo taken at home reveals where you live. A geotagged photo of your child reveals their school run. A series of marketplace listings photographed in your garage maps your daily life. Stalking and harassment cases have been built on exactly this data, and it's routinely scraped in bulk from any platform that doesn't strip uploads.
The insidious part is invisibility: the photo looks identical with or without the geotag. Nobody ever leaked coordinates by showing them — they leak by forgetting the coordinates exist.
Check the geotag, then delete it
Drop a photo in and the tool checks the GPS record first. If coordinates are present you get a clear warning with the exact position and a map link — seeing your own front door on that map is usually the moment this stops being abstract. One click then downloads a copy with the GPS record gone, and the rest of the metadata (camera, timestamps, software traces) removed with it, since those fields corroborate location too.
The removal is structural and lossless: the image pixels are copied through unchanged, so the clean photo is visually identical to the original.
Preventing future geotags
For photos you haven't taken yet: on iPhone, Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera → Never (or 'Ask'). On Android, open the Camera app's own settings and disable location tags. For photos already in your library or already scheduled to be shared, prevention doesn't help — checking and stripping before sharing is the only fix, and it takes seconds here.
Frequently asked questions
How do I know if a photo has GPS data?
Drop it into the tool above — if a geotag is present you'll see a highlighted warning with the coordinates and a map link. If there's no warning, the file carries no GPS record that standard parsers can read.
Do WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook remove GPS for me?
Major social platforms strip most metadata, including GPS, on upload. But email, many chat apps, marketplaces, forums and your own website generally do not. If you don't control the pipeline, assume the geotag survives.
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No — photos are cleaned entirely inside your browser tab using JavaScript. You can verify this yourself: open DevTools, switch to the Network panel, and watch it while you clean a photo — zero file transfers. Only non-image formats (PDF, video, audio) use our cleaning server: encrypted in transit, processed immediately, deleted immediately, never stored.
Does removing GPS also remove the timestamp and camera info?
Yes. The cleaner removes the entire metadata layer — GPS, capture time, camera model, software traces — because the other fields can corroborate location and identity too. The image itself is untouched.
