iPhones can now remove location data from photos when sharing: Here’s how

iPhones have a great camera, allowing you to capture appealing photos and videos before sharing them online. But did you know that when you share photos or videos from your iPhone on a social media app or any other platform, you end up sharing the exact location where the photo was taken? That’s because your iPhone geotags photos taken from your camera roll to help you easily search for them later.

But if you care about privacy, you may not want to disclose your picture’s location, refraining people from knowing your whereabouts. Apple’s latest feature on iPhones will help you do just that. With iOS 18.2, users can remove location data from their images and videos, upping the privacy game on iPhones. Here’s everything you need to know about the feature, and how you can use it.

How to disable location metadata for iPhone photos

Apple’s iOS 18.2 public beta has a feature that lets you to prevent your iPhone from sharing the photo and video location metadata when uploading them online. This will ensure that others don’t know about your whereabouts from the time you clicked that cool sunset picture, aiding to your privacy.

If that sounds good, you can disable location metadata for iPhone photos and videos, here’s how.

Step 1: Open Settings on your iPhone.

Step 2: Tap on Privacy & Security.

Step 3: Tap on Photos.

Step 4: Select the app that has access to your photos, like BlueSky, Messenger, and others.

Step 5: Now, under Private Access, hit Options.

Step 6: Under Include, disable Location and Captions. Disabling these two options will remove any location data as well as captions (added via the Photos app) when uploading photos and videos on a third-party app.

That’s how you can easily remove location data from iPhone’s photos and videos. While this is a great privacy feature, the only problem with it is that you have to disable the location data for all the apps one-by-one.

Since this feature is in iOS 18.2’s public beta version, some of the apps do not allow you to disable the location or captions data. But most apps should get this setting later once iOS 18.2 arrives for everyone in December.