Remove the GPS location from photos, keep everything else
Most phone cameras record exactly where each photo was taken. Share the original file and anyone can read those coordinates — often your home, your child’s school or your workplace. This GPS metadata remover deletes the location from JPG, PNG and WebP photos and leaves the rest of the metadata alone: camera and lens, date taken, orientation, copyright and colour profile all stay as they were.
Before removing anything it shows you what the photo reveals: the coordinates in decimal and in degrees-minutes-seconds, the altitude, the GPS date, and a link that opens the spot on OpenStreetMap in a new tab. No map is embedded and no coordinates are sent anywhere — the file is read and edited in your browser, and the image data is never re-encoded.
How to use the GPS Metadata Remover
- Drop one or more photos onto the upload area, or click to choose them. Use original files from your camera or phone gallery.
- Look for the red “Location found” badge, and open “View on OpenStreetMap” if you want to see the place the photo reveals.
- Check “Kept in the clean copy”: camera, date taken, lens and other details that remain.
- Read the verification line — the result is re-read with exifr and piexifjs to confirm no GPS data is left.
- Download each photo, or press “Download without location” to save them all, as a ZIP when there are several.
GPS Metadata Remover features
Location only
Removes the EXIF GPS block — latitude, longitude, altitude, direction, speed and GPS time — plus GPS properties in XMP. Nothing else is touched.
Lossless and same size
JPEG, PNG and WebP files are edited in place; the compressed image data is byte-identical and is compared to prove it.
See it before you remove it
Coordinates, altitude and GPS date are shown with a link to OpenStreetMap, so you understand what was exposed.
Double-checked
Every result is re-read by the built-in parser, the exifr library and, for JPEG, piexifjs.
Batch with ZIP
Clean a whole holiday album in one go; files without a location are reported as already safe.
Private
Photos are processed on your device and never uploaded. Only the open-source checking libraries are loaded from a CDN.
How the location is removed without touching anything else
In a JPEG, the EXIF block is a small TIFF structure: a main directory (IFD0) with the camera tags, pointers to an Exif directory with exposure and date tags, and to a separate GPS directory. The tool deletes the GPS pointer from IFD0, shifts the remaining entries up, and overwrites the GPS directory and its values with zeros. Because the block keeps its exact length, every other offset — the maker note, the embedded thumbnail, the Exif directory — stays valid, and the file size does not change.
Many editors also copy the position into XMP as exif:GPSLatitude and exif:GPSLongitude. Those properties are blanked with spaces of the same length, which XML treats as whitespace. PNG eXIf chunks and WebP EXIF chunks get the same treatment; for PNG the chunk checksum is recalculated. If an unusual EXIF layout cannot be edited in place, piexifjs rebuilds the EXIF block without the GPS directory instead (the image data is still untouched).
What counts as location data
| Data | Where it is stored | This tool |
|---|---|---|
| Latitude, longitude, altitude | EXIF GPS IFD | Removed |
| GPS time, direction, speed, accuracy | EXIF GPS IFD | Removed |
| Copy of the coordinates | XMP exif:GPS… properties | Removed |
| City, state, country names | IPTC and XMP caption fields | Kept and flagged — remove them with the EXIF Remover |
| Camera, lens, serial number, date | EXIF IFD0 and Exif IFD | Kept |
Other ways to protect your location
- Turn off location tags at the source. On iPhone go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera; on Android open the Camera app’s settings and turn off location tags (the name varies by brand).
- Share without location. The iPhone share sheet has an “Options” button with a Location switch; Google Photos can remove the estimated location from a photo.
- Check before you post. Open any photo in the EXIF Viewer to see all of its metadata, or remove everything at once with the EXIF Remover.
- Mind the picture itself. Street signs, house numbers and car plates can reveal a place too — crop them out with Crop Image.
GPS Metadata Remover FAQ
How do I remove the location from a photo?
Drop the photo into this GPS metadata remover and download the copy marked “Location removed”. The GPS coordinates are deleted from the EXIF and XMP data while the camera, date and image quality stay the same.
Will the date and camera details be kept?
Yes. Only the GPS directory and XMP GPS properties are removed. The make, model, lens, date taken, orientation, resolution and copyright tags are kept, and the card lists what remains.
Does removing GPS data change the photo quality?
No. The file is edited in place: the compressed image data is byte-identical and the file size stays the same for JPEG and WebP.
Can I remove the location from iPhone HEIC photos?
Not losslessly in a browser. Convert the photo with HEIC to JPG — the JPG copy has no metadata at all — or change the iPhone camera to “Most Compatible” so it saves JPEGs.
Is the map preview safe?
The tool only builds a link; nothing is loaded until you click it, and then OpenStreetMap opens in a new tab with the coordinates in the address. No map is embedded on this page.
Do social networks remove GPS data anyway?
Large platforms usually strip it from public uploads, but email attachments, cloud links, marketplaces, forums and messaging apps that send files as documents often keep the original metadata.