How to Stop iPhone From Saving Your Location in Photos
To ensure that geotag information isn’t captured when you snap future pictures:
How to Remove Geotags From Older iPhone Pictures
Unless you previously disabled the iPhone’s location services for the camera app, photos you took with the iPhone have geotagged information embedded in the EXIF metadata saved with the photos and contained in the image files. To remove the geotag information from photos on your phone, use an app such as deGeo or Pixelgarde. Use photo privacy apps to remove the location information contained in photos; some can delete location tags from more than one photo at a time.
Why Geotags Are a Potential Security Risk
If a picture of an item that is being sold online contains geotag information, potential thieves may find the location of the item. While you are on vacation, posting a picture that is geotagged confirms that you are not home. This information provides criminals with knowledge of your whereabouts, which could aid in a robbery or worse. However, geotags are useful as long as you keep the images to yourself. You can plug them into third-party apps to do neat things such as see where on a map the pictures were taken or to remind yourself where you shot some photos.
How to View a Photo’s Location Information
You can see if a photo has geotagged information in its metadata through various apps and websites. Photo-location.net, Pic2Map, and Online Exif Viewer are examples of websites that can view an image’s location. XnViewMP works, too; it runs as a program from a computer. Google Photos shows image location on a map and can be used from any website. Beyond those apps are other methods such as the iOS Shortcuts mini-app called “Where Was This Taken?”
