Remove GPS location from a photo
Every phone photo carries a hidden tag with the coordinates where you stood — your home, your child's school, the hotel you are staying at right now. Drop a photo here and the tool rebuilds the file from its pixels alone: no GPS, no camera serial, no timestamp survives, and nothing ever leaves your device.
- Nothing is uploaded
- Metadata: removed
- Original dimensions kept
- Unlimited & free
Drop your photos here
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JPG · JPEG · PNG · WebP · AVIF · HEIC · GIF · BMP — no file count limit
Output settings
Applied to every photoThis page re-encodes each photo at high quality (about 90%). The file is rebuilt from raw pixels, which is what strips the metadata — GPS, camera data and timestamps cannot survive the rebuild. Dimensions are preserved.
Advanced options
Auto applies a halo-free unsharp mask only when an image is scaled below 82%.
Generated in your browser by a synth — no audio file is downloaded, and it stays silent when a batch finishes in a couple of seconds.
WASM codecs are fetched from a public CDN on first use and give slightly smaller files. Every fallback still works offline.
Results
What is actually hiding inside your photo
A photo from any phone or camera is two things in one file: the image you see, and a metadata block called EXIF that you do not. The EXIF block is written the instant the shutter fires, and what phones record by default is more than most people expect:
| Data | What it says about you | After this tool |
|---|---|---|
| GPS coordinates | Where you stood, to within a few metres — home, work, school | Removed |
| Date and exact time | Your routines and movements over time | Removed |
| Device make, model and serial | Which phone you own; can tie photos to one device | Removed |
| Camera settings, software, thumbnails | Fingerprinting material; embedded originals can survive edits | Removed |
| Orientation flag | Which way up the photo is | Applied to the pixels, so the photo stays upright |
| The image itself | — | Kept, re-encoded at ~90% quality |
Why the metadata cannot survive this tool
Some privacy tools promise to “delete” the EXIF block. This one works differently, and the difference is what makes it trustworthy: the photo is decoded to raw pixels — at that moment every metadata block in the file is discarded by the decoder, because pixels are all a decoder reads — and a brand-new file is built around those pixels. The output file was never near your phone's GPS; there is simply no mechanism for a coordinate to get into it. You do not have to trust a promise, you can verify it: after saving, open the file's properties on any operating system, or run it through any EXIF viewer. The metadata panel will be empty.
The honest trade-off: it is a re-encode
Stripping metadata by rebuilding the file means the pixels are re-encoded, and that is a lossy operation: the saved photo is visually indistinguishable from the original in normal viewing, but it is not bit-identical, and repeated passes compound the loss. This page is set to about 90% quality by default — high enough that nobody can tell, low enough to keep the file reasonable. If you need the pixels untouched, use your operating system instead: Windows — right-click the file, Properties, Details, Remove Personal Information; macOS — Preview's Tools inspector, or export without metadata. Those are lossless but per-file and fiddly; this tool is batch and instant but re-encodes. Pick the right one for the job.
When you actually need this
- Selling things on marketplaces. A photo of a bicycle in your driveway, posted with GPS intact, is an address. Buyers do not need it.
- Photos of children. School runs, sports days, birthdays — a coordinate plus a timestamp is information a stranger should not get from a shared photo.
- Travel photos posted while away. Coordinates that say “not home” add a physical dimension to a burglar's map. Post them after you are back, scrubbed.
- Documents and screenshots of your screen. A photo of a letter, an ID card or a screen also carries GPS. The visible content may be what you meant to share; the location is not.
- Anywhere the original file can be downloaded. Big social platforms usually strip EXIF on upload — but marketplaces, forums, classified sites, email attachments and shared cloud links frequently do not. If you do not know, scrub first.
One more thing a scrub cannot fix
Metadata removal only clears the hidden layer. What is visible in the frame still speaks: a house number, a street sign, a school badge on a uniform, a reflected face in a window. The strongest habit is framing with privacy in mind, and a light crop when the background gives away more than it should — this site's size pages cover how the engine handles dimensions, and a quick compress after scrubbing costs nothing extra since both happen in the same pass.
Frequently asked questions
Does re-encoding a photo really remove GPS data?
Yes. GPS coordinates live in the EXIF metadata block of the file, not in the pixels. This tool decodes the photo to raw pixels and builds a brand-new file around them, so there is no metadata block left to carry anything — GPS, camera model, serial number and timestamps are all gone at once.
Is the removal lossless?
No, and we would rather say so plainly. The pixels are re-encoded at about 90% encoder quality — visually indistinguishable from the original in normal viewing, but not bit-identical. If you need a bit-identical file with only the metadata removed, use your operating system instead: Windows File Explorer's Remove properties, or macOS Preview's export options.
Which social platforms strip location data anyway?
Most large platforms — Facebook, Instagram, X, WhatsApp — strip EXIF on upload, so the risk there is small. But marketplaces, forums, email, cloud links shared as files, and any site that lets people download the original usually do not. If you do not know which camp a destination is in, strip the data before it leaves your device.
Can I remove only the GPS and keep the rest of the EXIF?
Not here — this tool removes all metadata in one pass, which is the honest trade for doing it entirely in your browser. Selective EXIF editing needs a metadata editor such as ExifTool or your operating system's built-in property remover.
Does taking a screenshot of the photo remove the location?
Yes — a screenshot has no EXIF of the original photo. But it also throws away image quality, and it does nothing about what is visible in the frame itself: a house number, a street sign or a school name identifies a location just as precisely as a coordinate.
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No. This is a static site with no upload endpoint. Your photos are decoded and re-encoded inside your own browser, so they cannot leave your device even by accident — which is the whole point when the file is sensitive enough to need scrubbing.