{"id":6929,"date":"2017-01-10T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2017-01-18T09:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T14:38:46","slug":"remove-location-data-android-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/remove-location-data-android-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove Location Data from Android Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smartphones have revolutionized the way we take and share photos. While this is undoubtedly a fun and convenient tool to have at our disposal, the increasing use of mobile devices has left many a user (understandably) paranoid and skeptical of releasing more data than they absolutely have to. One of these data points is Location. Most of the time we don&#8217;t even realize it&#8217;s on and working, whether through GPS or Wifi, and only later when we see that it&#8217;s been recorded do we get weirded out. Here are some ways to remove location data from the photos you take.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Disable Location Settings Universally<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The easiest thing you could do to ensure your photos won&#8217;t have your site stamp is to simply turn off location tracking on your Android. If you&#8217;re the type of person who prefers privacy and doesn&#8217;t want to be bothered on any app or in any scenario, doesn&#8217;t use maps, and so on, then skip the hassle and just go this route.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the settings icon from the &#8220;all apps&#8221; section<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scroll down to &#8220;Personal,&#8221; then select &#8220;Location&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toggle the On button to Off<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/world-cyber-security-day\/\">World Cyber Security Day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>Disable the Camera&#8217;s Location Settings<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Turning off location settings overall is not a viable option for users who frequent apps like &#8220;maps&#8221; to get around or service apps that use your location to find restaurants or places of interest in your immediate vicinity. If you want to turn off locations for photo-taking only but spare the other applications, then make the following adjustments directly in your camera app.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the Camera app from the &#8220;all apps&#8221; section<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tap left menu on the display<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click &#8220;Settings,&#8221; then toggle &#8220;Save location&#8221; to off<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Removing Location Data from Photos You Share<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Location data on photos can be fun or useful \u2014 when posting to Facebook or reminiscing on times past. If you don&#8217;t want to remove location data on all photos entirely, you can make modifications to individual photos and albums you want to share via a link.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launch Google Photos <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on the left menu to find Settings<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under Location you&#8217;ll see the option to remove Geolocation: toggle to &#8220;on&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, as an added bonus, Google offers a feature called &#8220;estimated location.\u201d If you upload or save a photo taken from another device, such as a camera, Google will estimate the location at which it was taken. To disable that data, select the photo from your photo library and click the &#8220;info&#8221; icon, which will let you &#8220;remove location&#8221; from the right menu beside the estimated location.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take and share photos without the added stress over your privacy. There are several ways to turn off or modify your location settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4181,306],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","tag-android-photos","tag-app4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}