If you don’t want your location data saved on photos you take with your iPhone or iPad in iOS 8, here’s how to disable the feature.
Every photo you take with any camera comes with EXIF data, which consists of the settings used to take the photo (shutter speed, aperture, etc.) as well as the date and time the photo was taken. Also, if your camera has built-in GPS, it has the ability to record where the photo was taken down to the exact coordinates.
Location data in photos can be a nifty feature for some users, but often it’s unnecessary and can be a major privacy concern. By default iOS 8 saves this location data to every photo you take with your iPhone or iPad (unless you disabled it when the setting is turned on when launching the Camera app on a new device for the first time), so when you send a photo to someone, they can see where you took the photo, which side of the road it was taken.
However, disabling the storage of location data in the photos you take is easy, and we’ll show you how.
What Can Other Users See?
When you send a photo you took on your iPhone or iPad to other iOS users, they can easily see where the photo was taken because they can tap the information on the photo and view a convenient, interactive map with a thumbnail of the photo. exactly where it was taken (pictured above). It may not be 100% accurate, but it’s close enough to see where the photo was taken, take a few steps or was taken.
If you don’t have an iOS device, you can still easily view the location data of a photo taken with an iPhone or iPad using a number of services that can fully extract EXIF data from a photo.
good online service Jeffrey’s EXIF Viewer. Simply upload or paste the URL of a photo; it will extract all the EXIF data it can find.
If it finds location data, it provides a Google Maps satellite view with an arrow pointing to where the photo was taken. It’s even so accurate that we noticed that the arrow was pointing to the right side of the house in the living room where the photo was taken!
Disable Location Data in iOS 8 Photos
To prevent your iPhone or iPad from saving location data on photos, you can follow these simple steps:
- Open the application.
- Set the course in this direction.
- You will see a list of applications. Tap and then select .
Now all the photos you take on your iPhone or iPad will not contain location data.
Deleting Location Data in Existing Photos
The above steps will not delete location data from previously taken photos. However, there is still hope for existing photos you already have.
There are several services that delete all EXIF and location data from photos, and Windows can even do this locally: Right-click on the photo and select . Then click the tab and select the option that says. Then select then and click to complete the process.
For Mac users, you can download a small utility called ImageOptimhere you just have to drag and drop the photos into the utility and it will automatically remove all EXIF data.
However, if you do not want to download third-party software, imgur It is a free image hosting service that deletes all EXIF data when you upload a photo. You can then re-download the images to your computer or go ahead and share them with your friends and family using the Imgur share links. Registration is not required.
