How to remove location data from your iPhone photos in iOS 13

by Lucia Mandela software

When you snap a photo on your iPhone or iPad, iOS automatically uses GPS to record the exact location of the shot. This is an enormous convenience, as it allows you to catalog your many images according to exact location (as well as occasion). It assists in sorting out photo shoots and helps keep track of family and friends over the years.

Most of the time, photo location metadata is welcome. Sometimes, though, it’s not.

When you share a photo with geolocation coordinates tagged in a photo’s EXIF data, viewers can use their Photos app to figure out where the shot was taken. When you’re posting photos to social media, especially on Twitter, you probably don’t want to post a photo that’s too close to home — or in your home — without a way to remove that information and protect your privacy. Even with Facebook, which is famous for tracking you all over the internet, you may not be comfortable posting an image that carries so much precious data.

Removing geolocation data from images in iOS 13

With iOS 13, Apple redoubles its commitment to security and anti-tracking technologies by providing a new way to remove photo location information from any shot before sharing it with someone, or on social media. Now you can remove the location from photos, videos, or multiple images and movies you want to send via Mail, Messages, Facebook, Twitter, Messenger, or any other app. That way, you don’t have to worry about a stranger finding out your location from your iPhone shots. Here’s how to do that.

Shoot your photo or video as you normally do with the Camera app.
Find the photo in your albums.
If you’re just sharing a single image or video, open it, and tap the Share button.
To share multiple photos and videos, tap Select in the album or section view, tap on all the files you’re sending, and tap the Share button.
When you’re about to share in the Photos app, observe a new Options button in iOS 13.
Tap on Options and in the next pane, toggle off Location.
Then send your photo via any conduit you like. There will now be no way for the viewer to decipher the location where it was shot. Note that the toggle is not historical, but must be reset after each send.

You can only remove the location within the iPhone Photos app, so be sure to share your shots directly from the app. This handy iOS 13 privacy feature is designed only for the photos and videos you share with others. The photos residing on your device retain all their location information — it’s only the ones sent via text, email, or social media that will strip out the location data. The rest of the metadata associated with your image — time, device type, shutter speed, and aperture, remains with your shot.

Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-remove-location-data-from-iphone-photos-in-ios-13/