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; existing photos may still carry device model, serial numbers, timestamps, and provenance markers. To clean what you already have, inspect the file and remove the supported metadata directly on-device.
Check before you share. Use the free browser checker to see supported GPS, device, timestamp, and editor metadata locally, or clean verified copies with NoTrace on iPhone.
FAQ
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.