It's vacation season for many people. Time to shrug off the mantle of business and It and have a dip in the ocean, climb a mountain, visit a museum, or whatever your penchant. While on holiday, yous're most likely going to exist snapping photos then yous tin can savor the memories of that time away from the grind.

Or maybe you're just taking photos in or around your home. Staycation anyone?

Thing is, do you want those photos to take associated geolocation information? Why would you non? When you share those photos (on various social networks), that geolocation information could clue people in on your whereabouts. If you're on vacation, it could cardinal ne'er do wells in on that fact. If your dwelling isn't under the scout of a house sitter or a surveillance arrangement, y'all could be vulnerable.

With you sufficiently paranoid, let me show y'all how to remove the geolocation information from a Google Photos epitome, so you tin share that photo without having to worry about the information getting also public.

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Unfortunately, the only way you tin plow this off globally, is for photos y'all share with a link. Non many share in that fashion, so you're going to accept to learn how to strip away that data on a photo-by-photo basis. Hither's how.

Open up Google Photos and then navigate to the photograph you lot want to work with. Once you observe it, tap on the photo and so tap the more than button (iii vertical dots) associated with the Location (Figure A).

Effigy A

When you tap that push button, a drop-down will appear. From that driblet-downwardly, tap Remove Location then, when prompted, tap REMOVE. The information will be stripped from the photograph (Figure B) and you can feel safe in sharing that image on your social network.

Figure B

Share by link

If y'all do happen to share your photos by link, you can have Google Photos automatically strip the geolocation information, before the photo link is shared. Do notation, this simply works when sharing a photo via a link. To exercise this, follow these steps:

  1. Open Google Photos
  2. Tap the hamburger menu button in the top left corner
  3. Tap Settings
  4. Locate and tap the Remove geo location entry (Figure C)

Figure C

That'southward information technology. At present, any time you share a photograph, using a link, that photo will not comprise any location information.

A slight security enhancement

Yous might not think so, simply removing the geolocation data from your photos tin, in some means, give you a slight security enhancement–especially if y'all're on vacation and want to share those photos on social networking. Of course, you lot might also desire to brand certain whatsoever social networking y'all're sharing to isn't tagging your location (otherwise stripping photos of geolocation information is handily defeated).