How to Remove Location from Photos on Mac

How to Remove Location from Photos on Mac

Many pictures taken with an iPhone, Android phone, or digital camera include location data with the picture, which gives anyone who has the image file the ability to see exactly where the photo was taken. Additionally, the Photos app for Mac allows users to add a location to any picture as well. If you dont want a picture to include a physical location, you can easily remove the location from the image by using the Photos app for Mac.

Were going to demonstrate removing the location of a picture of the Grand Canyon in the Photos app for Mac OS, you can do this with every version of the app. Youll notice the pictures Info window will no longer show a location once it has been removed. This applies to both how you see it in the Photos app, and also if the picture is shared or exported it will no longer include the location with it.

Keep in mind you can always , so even if you remove a location, you can re-add it again later if desired. Its important to remember that many users like the image location feature since it can help sort pictures by location and track down where something was photographed, as well as allow sorting options based upon location and maps in Photos on Mac and iOS. Of course, some users may not like locations to be embedded into their pictures in the first place, perhaps for privacy reasons or otherwise. If that sounds like you, you can and also use a tool like ImageOptim with drag and drop simplicity.

At the moment, the Photos app for Mac does not include an option to bulk remove location data, so youd either have to prevent it from being preserved in the first place through the camera settings, or remove it from all pictures with the aforementioned tool, which strips all metadata from images. Know of any other handy location tricks with Photos for Mac? Let us know in the comments.