Technology
The majority of us use our phones to snap and share a ton of photos and videos with people throughout the day. Before sharing images from your iPhone, though, you might want to think about your privacy and erase location information.
On your iPhone, when you snap a photo, it automatically saves metadata with GPS coordinates, the location of the shot, and even a map that you can view by swiping up on the picture.
The metadata from the app, which includes location, makes it easy for you to organize and manage your images. Consider your privacy first, even though you might want to share that amazing vacation photo you snapped. Additionally, learn how to remove location data from Windows images before sharing them on social media or in any other way using your PC.
Why Delete Your iPhone’s Location Information Before Sharing Pictures?
You shouldn’t take your internet privacy lightly. For a number of reasons, you wouldn’t want to share location information with your photo. For example, you may be exchanging a picture with a person you don’t know well. Or maybe you are pulling an unimaginable prank on your coworkers or employer by sharing photos that include geographical information. Significant landmarks are a dead giveaway, of course, and it’s best not to share images in that kind of situation, but I’m getting off topic.
Before sharing a photo straight from the Photos app, you can take its location out for privacy reasons or to hide your location. This is the method.
How to Take Location Information Out of iPhone Photos
As previously mentioned, the Photos app allows you to easily delete location information from photos.
- On your iPhone, launch the Photos app.
- After choosing a photo, press the Share button located in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
- The “Location Is Included” notice will appear at the top of the picture if Location Services is enabled; press the Options button.
- In the upper right corner, select Done after flipping off the Location switch.
As you can see, the selected photo’s message now reads, “Location Not Included.” You can keep using your favorite app to share the picture with others.
That is the only step involved! You may be sure that the location of the photo you share with someone is hidden by following the preceding procedures.
Turn Off Location for Every Image or Video
You can turn off Location Services for the Camera app if you don’t want the location of the pictures you take with your camera to be shared.
Go to Settings.
- Choose Security & Privacy.
- Select Location Services by tapping.
- Tap Camera after swiping down the screen.
- Choose the option labeled Never or Ask Next Time Or When I Share.
Keep in mind that for better privacy, you may want to turn off the Precise Location switch if you have it on or if it asks you every time.
Turn off Location Services.
An alternative would be to totally disable location, however this would disable it for all apps, making useful functions like Find My inoperable.
- Go to Settings.
- Select Security & Privacy.
- From the list, choose Location Services at the top.
- Disable location services by flipping the switch.
- When the verification notification appears at the bottom of the screen, tap Turn Off.
Keeping Photos Private Before Sharing
Your information is already widely available online, and you might not consider location information when distributing your images. However, deleting the location helps you keep anonymous if you don’t want people to know where you were when you snapped the photo.
Another benefit is that Apple has made it easy to remove location and other sensitive information from images with a few simple touches.
