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Every time you take a picture on your iPhone, the shooting location is stored along with the photo.

This function called geotag is convenient because you can search for photos at the shooting location.However, it is inconvenient when you want to share photos without giving information about the shooting location.

Fortunately, most SNS deletes the information on the photo shooting location before uploading.

It is a good idea to delete your own shooting location before sharing photos with services and methods that do not delete the shooting location, such as message applications, cloud services, and file sharing services (including AirDrop).

This time, I will introduce how to easily delete the photo shooting location.

How to delete the photo shooting location before sharing

Open the "Photo" app on the iPhone and select the photo you want to share.Tap the shared icon at the lower left corner and open the iPhone shared sheet.

Tap Options at the top of the shared sheet (where you can see how many photos you have selected).On the optional screen, turn off the slider of "All Photo Data" below "Include".

If this slider is green, it includes the location information of the shooting location.If the slider is gray, it is not included.Tap "Complete", save changes, and share photos.

How to disable the geotag in all photos of the iPhone

It takes only a few seconds to delete the location information before sharing a photo, but you can not add a geotag to the iPhone photo from the beginning.

If it is troublesome to do that, you can easily record location information when taking a picture.

However, if the geotag is disabled, you will not be able to search for photos of the iPhone at the shooting location.

If you search for photos with city names and country names, you will not get any results.The advantage is that you don't have to worry about exposing your location information when you share a photo.

For most people, disabling the accurate location information geotag is a good choice.Still, you can see most of the places where you took a picture, but the area is so wide that you don't know the exact shooting location.

To completely disable the geotag, select "None" in the iPhone's "Settings> Privacy> Location Service> Camera".

To avoid recording the accurate location information with photos on the iPhone camera, check the same setting page ("Settings> Privacy> Location Service> Camera").Then turn off the slider of "accurate location information".

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