How to Remove Location Data in Google Photos
Google Photos lets you hide the estimated location in shared links, but the file you download or hand off can still contain GPS coordinates. This workflow removes location at the file level.
Updated: 2026-06-30
Workflow
Step-by-step workflow
Follow the same privacy pattern as the remover: inspect, strip only metadata, then share the clean copy.
In Google Photos settings, turn off location for shared items so links do not expose the map pin to viewers.
Download the photo, then process it in RemoveMyEXIF so the GPS block is removed from the file itself, not just hidden in the interface.
Check the cleaned download in the EXIF Viewer to verify coordinates and timestamps are gone.
- Turn off location sharing for shared albums and links.
- Clean any file you download before reusing it elsewhere.
- Do not assume the in-app toggle changes the underlying file.
- Thinking the hide-location setting strips EXIF from the file; it does not.
- Re-sharing a downloaded original that still has GPS.
- Uploading clean files to one service but originals to another.
FAQ
Google Photos questions
It hides the estimated location in the shared view, but the downloadable file can still carry GPS coordinates. Clean the file to remove them.
No embedded coordinates to extract. A cleaned file gives them the image without your capture location.
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