Remove your location from photos before you share them

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Photos can reveal where they were taken, including your home. Here's how to share them without that.

⏱ About 5 minutes · 3 steps · ▶ 2 videos
What you'll need
  • Your phone
  • About 5 minutes

  1. Why it matters

    When your camera can use your location, it saves where each photo was taken. People you share it with may be able to see that.

  2. Share without location

    📱 iPhone / iPad: In Photos, select the photo(s), tap Share, then Options at the top. Turn off Location. You'll see Location Not Included, then share as usual.

    🤖 Android: In Google Photos, you can't remove a location your camera saved. You can only edit or remove locations Google estimated or you added (open the photo > Info > edit the location). To avoid sharing your camera's location, stop the camera from saving it (step 3).

  3. Stop saving location in new photos

    📱 iPhone / iPad: Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > Camera and choose Never.

    🤖 Android: Open your Camera app's settings and turn off the location tag option (the name varies by phone maker).

🎉 All done!

More privacy tips in Using photos from the web. Menu names vary by app and software version. These steps were checked against official help pages in October 2026.

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Official help pages

Steps checked against these pages in October 2026. If a button looks different, look for a similar label.