July 7, 2026 · 5 min read

How to Remove Location (GPS) From Photos Before Posting — Free

Your photos secretly store the exact GPS coordinates of where they were taken — including your home. Here's how to strip location data for free, in your browser.

Here's something most people never realize: nearly every photo your phone takes stores the exact GPS coordinates of where you were standing. Share a picture taken in your living room, and the file can quietly hand your home address to anyone who downloads it. Before you post, here's how to strip that location data — for free, without uploading your photos anywhere.

How to see if your photo has location data

On iPhone, open a photo, tap the info (i) button, and if there's a map, it's geotagged. On most Android phones it's in the photo's Details. Screenshots usually don't carry GPS, but original camera photos almost always do — and so do many images you download or receive.

Remove GPS location in 3 steps

• Step 1 — Open Skrubly's free metadata cleaner and drop in your photo (JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP).
• Step 2 — It shows you exactly what's hidden inside: GPS coordinates, camera model, timestamps.
• Step 3 — Click Clean and download the stripped photo. Same image, zero location data.

Why not just trust the platform to remove it?

Some platforms strip metadata on upload — but not all, not consistently, and not for files people download from you or that you send directly. The only way to be sure is to remove it yourself before the photo leaves your hands. And doing it in your browser means the photo never touches anyone's server, including ours.

Does removing GPS ruin the photo?

Not at all. Location, camera info and timestamps live in a separate part of the file from the actual pixels. Strip them and the image looks pixel-for-pixel identical — you just stop broadcasting where and when it was taken.

Free and private

No account, no upload, no limit. Clean as many photos as you want — it's free, and every one is processed on your own device.