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one of the cool benefits of taking photos on a smartphone instead of a traditional camera is that the photos are embedded with the GPS location of where your photo was taken it's great if you want to create a map of where you've been or if you want to quickly tag your photo on Instagram or four square but what if you want to photograph a location you'd like to keep secret like your home well I'm going to show you how to strip the GPS location off of the photos you take with your smartphone so that you can share them online without announcing your location first off know that you can globally disable location embedding on your smartphone if you just don't see any upside to it on the iphone you can go into settings privacy location services and either shut it all down or just switch off the camera most people at least like to keep location running for use in navigation apps like maps on Android it can differ slightly from phone to phone but you can try going into settings and then location and then turning it off on the HTC One here you can also manage the camera app specifically by going to the camera settings and unchecking the box for geotag photos how can you verify that a photo taken with your phone doesn't have any hidden GPS data on it that could give away your location cora doko is a free app that you can get from both the iphone and android and unless you view the location data within your photos and see it on a map from here you can delete the data and save the photo is a new file to your camera roll for iphone users there's a slightly more polished app called dgo so dollar 99 and pulls the same trick as quartered oak Oh only you can select multiple images and you can share the untagged images directly to connected services such as Flickr or Facebook so next time you want to share a photo you took around your home without divulging its precise location to every burglar and weirdo in the world now you know how to strip the GPS location data off your photos