What Is My Location

Remove Location Data from Photos

Every photo from a phone quietly carries the exact GPS coordinates of where it was taken, plus the time and the device. Pick your photos below and this page strips all of it — the files never leave your browser, most JPEGs are cleaned without touching a single pixel, and every output is re-scanned to prove the location is really gone before you download it.

Just checking? Read what a photo is carrying first

Everything happens in your browser — the photos are never uploaded anywhere. This page even works offline.

    Where the leak actually happens

    Big social platforms (Instagram, Facebook, X) strip EXIF on upload — that path is mostly safe. The leaks happen everywhere else: email attachments, cloud-drive share links, classified-ad listings, forum uploads, and messengers when you send a photo “as a file” (the quality-preserving option many people choose) all pass the original bytes through, coordinates included. A photo of a sofa for sale can hand a stranger your home address; check what any photo is carrying with the photo location reader — this page is its other half.

    What gets removed — and what stays

    Removed: the GPS block (coordinates, altitude, direction), capture timestamps, camera and phone model, software history, embedded thumbnails (which can contain a small copy of the original image), XMP and IPTC blocks. Kept: your pixels and the color profile. For JPEGs that don't need rotation fixing the clean copy is byte-identical image data — no recompression, no quality loss; rotated photos are re-encoded once at high quality so they don't fall over sideways when the rotation flag is stripped with the rest.

    Why in-browser matters

    Most “EXIF remover” sites work by uploading your photo to their server — to remove data you consider sensitive, you first hand the whole photo to a stranger. Here the entire job runs in JavaScript on your device: no upload, no server copy, works offline once the page has loaded, and each cleaned file is re-scanned in place to verify the coordinates are gone. That verification line under each photo isn't decoration; if a file can't be cleaned, it says so instead of pretending.

    Frequently asked questions

    Are my photos uploaded to your server?
    No — that's the point. The reading, stripping and verification all run in JavaScript on your device. You can load this page, disconnect from the internet, and it still works. Nothing about your photos ever reaches us.
    Does removing EXIF reduce photo quality?
    For most JPEGs, no: the metadata blocks are cut out and the compressed image data is copied byte-for-byte — pixels untouched. Photos stored with a rotation flag are re-encoded once at high quality so they don't display sideways after cleaning; the result line under each file tells you which path was used.
    Do WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook remove GPS for me?
    Feed and photo uploads on major social platforms strip EXIF. The dangerous paths are 'send as file/document' in messengers, email attachments, cloud share links and marketplace listings — those usually keep the original bytes, coordinates included. When in doubt, clean first.
    How do I check whether a photo has GPS before cleaning it?
    Use our photo location reader — it shows exactly what a photo is carrying (coordinates on a map, timestamps, device). This page is its counterpart: reader to see, remover to erase. Each cleaned file here is also re-scanned automatically to confirm the location is gone.
    Why won't my iPhone HEIC file clean?
    Browsers can't reliably decode HEIC. Export or share the photo as JPEG first (iPhone: Settings > Camera > Formats > Most Compatible, or just share to Files as JPEG), then clean it here. Screenshots never contain GPS to begin with.
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