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A short, practical guide to removing GPS coordinates from a JPEG before you post it. If you've been wondering how to remove metadata from photos, you're in the right place. You can use the in-browser tool below, or follow the platform-specific tips further down for iPhone, Android, Windows, and macOS to effortlessly remove metadata from pictures.
Drag & drop your JPEG images here to remove location (up to 20)
or click to browse
Your photo is now private with all GPS location data stripped. Download your protected image.
If you don't want to use the in-browser tool above, every major operating system has a built-in way to strip GPS coordinates from a JPEG. Pick the one that matches the device the photo lives on.
To remove the location from the original itself, open the photo, tap the i (info) button, then tap Adjust next to the location and choose No Location.
Note that on Android the change is usually applied to the file itself, not just the share copy - back up the original first if you want to preserve the GPS for your own records.
Preview only shows the GPS tab when the photo actually contains GPS data - if the tab is missing, the photo is already clean.
If you'd rather not use the device's built-in tools - for example, when the photo is on a different machine, or you want to clean a small batch at once - the editor at the top of this page does the same thing in a browser tab. Removing metadata from pictures and removing metadata from images has never been easier or more secure. The file never leaves your device. For the dedicated single-purpose page, see remove geotag from a photo.
It depends on the method. The iOS share-sheet toggle creates a clean copy and leaves the original alone. Windows offers both options. macOS Preview removes it in place when you save. The browser tool produces a new download, leaving your original on disk untouched.
For those two specific platforms, no - they re-encode uploads and discard EXIF as a side effect. But the same is not true of email, Messenger, WhatsApp's "send as document" option, Slack, Discord file uploads, AirDrop, or your own website. If the photo might leave your control through any of those channels, strip the location first.
No. They all edit the metadata header in the file; the JPEG pixel data is not re-encoded. Resolution, sharpness and colour are identical to the original.
The dedicated location-removal options on iOS, Android and macOS strip the entire GPS sub-block, which includes latitude, longitude, altitude and direction. The timestamp lives in a different EXIF section and is preserved.
On Windows, right-click → Properties → Details and look for the GPS section (it should be empty). On macOS, open in Preview → Tools → Show Inspector - the GPS tab disappears when the data is removed. On the browser tool, re-upload the cleaned file: the metadata table will show no GPS rows.