Remove EXIF Location on iPhone
Your iPhone silently attaches GPS coordinates to every photo you take. iOS can stop it for future shots — but the setting is buried, and it does nothing for the thousands of photos already in your library. Here is both halves of the fix.
Part 1 — Stop geotagging future photos
- Open Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services.
- Find Camera and set it to Never.
From now on, new photos carry no coordinates. (This is per-device — check it again after upgrading or restoring.)
Part 2 — Clean photos you already took
iOS can remove location from a single photo (Photos → open the photo → swipe up or tap ⓘ → Adjust → remove location), but doing that one-by-one across a library is not realistic — and it does not touch the other metadata: timestamps, device model, serial numbers.
For photos you are about to share or publish, the reliable route is to strip the metadata from the file itself, in bulk, before it leaves your device:
- Transfer the photos to any computer (cable, AirDrop to your own Mac).
- Open the EXIF remover below — it runs entirely in the browser, so even on a borrowed computer your photos are never uploaded.
- Select all the photos at once; batch mode cleans the whole set and packs the results into a ZIP.
- Choose Remove location only to keep your camera settings, or Remove everything before posting publicly.
On the go without a computer? Check what a photo reveals first — any device with a browser works.
Shooting in HEIC? The remover reads HEIC but cannot rewrite it losslessly — convert HEIC to JPG instead, which strips all metadata.
Just the location, nothing else? The GPS-focused remover.