Remove GPS Location From Photos

Phone GPS is typically accurate to somewhere between three and ten metres under open sky, which is precise enough to identify a specific house, apartment building or business rather than a general area. A geotagged photo taken inside or just outside your home embeds coordinates that resolve, on a map, to your front door — not to your city or your neighbourhood. This is the detail that makes the risk concrete rather than abstract: it is not that a stranger could figure out roughly where you live, it is that the coordinates say so directly and exactly.

A few common cases where stripping GPS specifically, rather than as a side effect of some other edit, is worth doing deliberately: photos of a home interior posted to a marketplace or rental listing, photos taken at a workplace or school and shared publicly, photos of children taken at recurring locations such as a home or a regular school run, and any photo taken somewhere the poster would rather not have publicly pinned — a hospital, a private event, a location not otherwise disclosed. In every one of these the coordinate data is the specific thing being given away, independent of anything visible in the photo itself.