Remove GPS from Photos — Free, Private, No Upload

Your photos are broadcasting your home address

Every photo taken with an iPhone, Android, or modern camera silently embeds a GPS geotag — your precise latitude, longitude, and often altitude — accurate to within a few meters. Post that photo to Reddit, Craigslist, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, a dating profile, or a property listing, and anyone who downloads it can open the file in a free EXIF viewer and see exactly where the photo was taken. That's your home address, your workplace, your kid's school, your usual coffee shop. SimpleTool strips the GPS data before you ever post it — entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.

Real situations where GPS leakage causes harm

• Selling on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace — a photo of the item taken in your living room embeds your home address. Buyers (or scammers) can see it before they ever message you.
• Dating apps — a photo taken at home or work reveals your location to anyone who downloads it, even if your profile doesn't.
• Property listings — photos of the interior of your home confirm the address to potential bad actors.
• Social media — posting photos from your backyard, gym, or routine locations builds a movement pattern anyone can track.
• Journalists and activists — a single carelessly shared photo can expose a source's location to hostile actors.

What exactly gets removed

GPS is just one of many EXIF tags. Re-encoding the image through a fresh canvas drops the entire metadata payload:

• GPS latitude, longitude, altitude, and direction
• Capture timestamp — exact date, time, and time zone
• Camera make, model, and serial number — device fingerprint
• Lens model, focal length, aperture, ISO, shutter speed
• Software fingerprint — phone OS, editing apps, retouching history
• Author / copyright tags — your name if your camera embeds it

Image orientation is read first and baked into the output pixels, so photos don't come out sideways after the strip.

Why “just upload to an EXIF remover site” defeats the purpose

Most online GPS removers upload your files to their server, strip the tags there, and send the cleaned photos back. That means a third party now has copies of the original photos plus the GPS coordinates and timestamps you were trying to hide — along with any other sensitive context in the photo (your face, your home, your ID). Many of those services explicitly reserve the right to log or retain uploads. SimpleTool runs the entire decode-and-re-encode pipeline directly in your browser tab. Once you close the tab, nothing remains. Nothing is logged, retained, or sent anywhere.

GPS Removers Compared: SimpleTool vs ExifTool vs Online Tools vs Phone Settings

Four routes to remove GPS coordinates. Same end state, different setup and privacy posture.

The phone “location off” setting prevents new photos from being tagged with GPS — but does nothing for photos already in your camera roll. ExifTool is the gold standard for power users and scripts. SimpleTool is the right choice when you need to clean an existing batch without installing CLI tools.

Does removing GPS affect photo quality?

For PNG output, quality is bit-identical — PNG is lossless. For JPG and WebP, the photo is re-compressed at the quality you choose (default 92%), which introduces a small lossy re-encode. In practice at 92% the difference is invisible to the human eye. Pick PNG output for zero quality change, or raise the quality slider to 95–100% for JPG/WebP if you need near-lossless output. The GPS and all other EXIF tags are removed regardless of quality setting.