Stop your iPhone camera from saving location
There are two halves to photo-location privacy: stopping future photos from being tagged, and cleaning the ones you've already got. This is the first half — a one-time iPhone setting that stops the camera embedding GPS from now on.
The setting that stops geotagging
Open Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera, and set it to Never. From then on, new photos and videos won't have GPS coordinates written into them.
This is the cleanest fix going forward and costs nothing. The trade-off is small: you lose the map view of where photos were taken in the Photos app.
Why this isn't the whole story
Turning off Camera location only affects future photos. Every photo already in your library keeps whatever GPS, device, and timestamp data was saved when it was taken — disabling the setting does not retroactively clean them.
And location is only one field; your existing photos still carry device model, serial numbers, timestamps, and any C2PA data. To clean what you already have, strip the metadata directly — NoTrace shows what each photo reveals and removes it in one tap, on-device.
Clean it in one tap with NoTrace. See exactly what your photos and videos reveal, then strip GPS, device IDs, timestamps, and AI provenance — on your device, nothing uploaded.
Download on the App StoreFAQ
Does turning off location remove GPS from old photos?
No. It only stops new photos from being tagged. Existing photos keep their original GPS data until you remove it from the files themselves.
Should I turn location off or just remove it before sharing?
Both is ideal: turn off Camera location to stop new tagging, and clean existing photos before you share them.