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Guides to Image Metadata and Privacy

Practical, plain-English help with what your image files contain and what happens when you share them.

Remove location and personal data

• How to remove GPS location from photos

  Check for coordinates and remove them, with or without our tool.

• Remove location from iPhone photos

  Four ways, from a single photo to every future photo.

• Remove location from Android photos

  Common routes, and a method that works on any phone.

• Remove location before posting on Instagram

  A step-by-step guide, plus other ways a post reveals where you are.

Stay safer when sharing

• What your photo metadata can reveal

  How small details add up, and who should think about this.

• Photo privacy for online sellers

  A checklist to protect your home and identity.

• Sharing photos of children more safely

  Simple checks before a family photo goes online.

• What Instagram does with your photo's metadata

  What others can see, and how the AI info label works.

Understand your files

• How to check a photo's metadata

  See what a file holds on any device.

• What is EXIF data?

  What your camera stores, and when to keep it.

• What is C2PA?

  How Content Credentials work, and what they can't prove.

• What is a HEIC file?

  Why iPhones use it, and how to convert it to JPG.

Reference

• Image metadata glossary

  Plain-English definitions of the terms used across this site.