Why remove the location from a photo?

A photograph taken at home, at a client’s house or at a school can give the address away to anyone who opens the file. Phones and many cameras record the GPS position by default, and most ways of sharing a file pass it on untouched.

Does removing the location reduce quality?

No. Only the metadata is edited; the image data is not re-encoded, so the picture is exactly as it was.

Is my photo uploaded?

No. Everything happens in your browser, and the page sends no file anywhere.

How can I check whether a photo carries its location?

Drop it in the tool: it shows the coordinates it read before cleaning, or says there was no location to remove.

Free tool · Remove location

Remove the location from a photo

Every phone and many cameras write where a picture was taken into the file. Drop photographs here and get them back without their GPS position — the pixels untouched, nothing uploaded.

Nothing is uploaded: the file is read and handled in this page, on your device.

What is removed, and what stays

Removed: the GPS block of the EXIF, the GPS and place fields of the XMP — city, region, country, sub-location — the location fields of the IPTC, and any Content Credentials manifest, which can repeat the place.

Kept: camera, lens, settings, date, copyright, author, orientation and colour profile.

Not re-encoded

The picture is never decoded or compressed again. The metadata is edited in place, so the image data comes out byte for byte identical — no loss of quality.

Nothing leaves your device

Files are read and cleaned in this page, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to Peak or anywhere else — a tool for removing your location should not need to see it.

Which files

The formats whose location can be removed without touching the picture:

JPEG, PNG and WebP
TIFF and DNG
Not HEIC or camera RAW files (CR2, NEF, ARW…): removing their location safely would mean re-encoding them — export a JPEG first

It fails safe

When the tool meets a structure it does not fully understand, it gives you nothing rather than a file that might still carry the location.

For every client, automatically

This is the code behind Remove location in a Peak room. Switch it on and every file your clients download from the room comes without its position, while the originals in your library keep theirs.

Questions

Why remove the location from a photo?: A photograph taken at home, at a client’s house or at a school can give the address away to anyone who opens the file. Phones and many cameras record the GPS position by default, and most ways of sharing a file pass it on untouched.
Does removing the location reduce quality?: No. Only the metadata is edited; the image data is not re-encoded, so the picture is exactly as it was.
Is my photo uploaded?: No. Everything happens in your browser, and the page sends no file anywhere.
How can I check whether a photo carries its location?: Drop it in the tool: it shows the coordinates it read before cleaning, or says there was no location to remove.