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title: "Remove Location from Video: Strip GPS Only | metadata.video"
description: "Remove the GPS location from a video and keep its date, camera and title. Clears location tags and GPS tracks without re-encoding. Free, nothing is uploaded."
url: https://metadata.video/remove-location-from-video
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# Remove the location from a video, keep the rest

Take out the coordinates, place tags and GPS tracks a phone or camera recorded, while the recording date and device details stay for your own records.

To remove the location from a video, open it here, press **Remove location only** and then **Download new file**. Every location field is cleared and any GPS track is emptied, while the recording date, the camera or phone model and any title stay where they were.

That is the right choice when the clip is going to people you trust, or into your own archive, and the only thing you would rather not hand out is where it was filmed: your home, a child’s school, a friend’s house. When the video is going to strangers, removing everything is safer; [remove all metadata from a video](https://metadata.video/remove-metadata-from-video) does that.

The video is read and rewritten in your browser, without uploading it and without re-encoding. You can see the location on a map before you remove it, and check afterwards that the new file has none.

## How to remove GPS data from a video

1. ### Open the video
Drop the clip on **Drop a video or photo here** or press **Open a file** (Ctrl/Cmd+O).
2. ### See the location
The page opens on **Location**: the coordinates, altitude and accuracy when stored, the country and a world map drawn on your device. GoPro GPS streams and DJI telemetry tracks are listed here too.
3. ### Remove the location only
Press **Remove location only** in **Privacy**, or in the **Edit & clean** panel. Date, camera and titles are left alone.
4. ### Download and check
Press **Download new file** (Ctrl/Cmd+S). **What changed** lists the fields removed; **Inspect new file** opens the copy so you can see **Location** report nothing.

## Where a video keeps its location

There is no single location field in a video. Each maker picked its own, and an edited clip can carry two or three copies of the same position in different places. **Remove location only** clears all of the ones below.

__Where different devices store location in a video file.__
| Source                   | Where the location is                                                              | What it holds                            |
| ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| iPhone and iPad          | com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709 key, plus accuracy and sometimes a place name | One point where recording started        |
| Most Android phones      | ©xyz user-data tag in the MP4                                                      | One point                                |
| Some phones and cameras  | 3GPP loci box                                                                      | One point with an optional name          |
| Editing and library apps | XMP (exif:GPSLatitude and similar)                                                 | One point, copied from the original      |
| GoPro                    | A GPMF data track sampled many times a second                                      | The whole route, with speed              |
| DJI drones, dash cams    | A telemetry or subtitle-style track, or a sidecar file                             | The route, height and often camera angle |

How an ISO 6709 location string reads: +51.4779 is latitude north, -000.0015 is longitude west, +046.000 is altitude in metres, and the slash ends the string.

A single point says where you started recording, usually to within a few metres. A track says where you went. Track data is overwritten with zeros, so the route cannot be read back, even though an empty data track may still be listed in **Tracks**. If a drone or action camera also wrote a separate `.SRT` or `.LRF` file next to the video, that file is not part of the video and needs deleting on its own.

MKV and WebM have no standard location fields, so a clip in those formats rarely has a location to remove; the field is disabled there. AVI and MPEG-TS hold almost no metadata at all.

## Location only, or everything?

__The two removal options compared.__
| **Remove location only**               | **Remove all metadata** |                             |
| -------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | --------------------------- |
| GPS point, place names, GPS tracks     | Removed                 | Removed                     |
| Recording date and time zone           | Kept                    | Removed                     |
| Phone or camera model, lens            | Kept                    | Removed                     |
| Title, comment, chapters               | Kept                    | Removed (chapters optional) |
| Software and encoder tags, XMP history | Kept                    | Removed                     |
| Content Credentials                    | Kept                    | Removed                     |

* **Keep the rest** when the video goes to family, a shared album or your own backup, where the date keeps it in order and the camera model is harmless.
* **Remove everything** for marketplaces, public posts, forums and anyone you do not know. A device model and exact time can narrow down who filmed something even without a map pin.
* **Move rather than remove** when you want an approximate place to stay, say the town but not the street: open **Edit & clean**, use **Pick on the map** under **Location** to set a nearby public spot, and download the new file.

## Remove location from videos on Android

Android phones differ by maker, and the built-in tools are less complete than they look. Here is what Google and Samsung document.

### Google Photos

Open the video, tap **More**, then **Edit**, then **Remove location**. For several items, select them, tap **More**, **Edit location**, then **Remove location**. Google’s help adds an important limit: you can only change or remove estimated locations and ones you added yourself. If the location was added automatically by your camera, Google Photos cannot remove it, so the GPS stays in the file.

When you share from Google Photos, Google says albums, links and conversations you create do not include location details by default, apart from partner sharing. That covers sharing inside Google Photos; a file sent through another app is a different matter.

### Samsung Gallery

Open the item, tap **More options** (the three dots), then **Details**, tap **Edit**, tap the red minus next to the location and tap **Save**. To share without location on One UI 3.0 or later, select items in Gallery, tap **Share** and tick **Remove Location data**. Samsung describes both for pictures; check a video in the viewer afterwards to be sure the location has gone.

### Stop recording location

* **Pixel Camera:** tap **Settings** at the bottom left, then **More settings**, and turn off **Save location**.
* **Samsung Camera:** tap the settings gear in the Camera app and turn off **Location tags**.
* Other makers use similar wording in their camera settings. You can also deny the camera app location permission in Android’s settings.

For files already recorded, or when Google Photos will not let you remove a camera-added location, open the video in Chrome on the phone and use **Remove location only** here. The [Android metadata guide](https://metadata.video/view-video-metadata-android) covers viewing details in Google Photos and Samsung Gallery.

## On iPhone

iPhone has the most complete built-in tools: you can stop the Camera saving location, remove it from a video in Photos with **Adjust Location** and **No Location**, and, in iOS 26, share without it from the share sheet’s **Options**. The steps differ slightly between iOS 26 and iOS 27, so they have their own page: [remove location from iPhone videos and photos](https://metadata.video/remove-location-from-video-iphone).

Whatever the phone, the quickest way to confirm a clip is clean is to open it in [where was this video taken](https://metadata.video/where-was-this-video-taken) and see whether a pin appears.

## Removing location from video: questions

### Will the date and camera information stay?

Yes. **Remove location only** clears location fields and GPS tracks and leaves the recording date, the device make and model, titles and chapters in place.

### Does removing the location re-encode the video?

No. MP4 and MOV files have only their metadata boxes rewritten, and other containers are stream-copied. Picture and sound are unchanged.

### Does it remove the GPS track from GoPro or DJI videos?

It overwrites the data in GPS and telemetry tracks with zeros, so the route can no longer be read. A sidecar file saved next to the video, such as a DJI `.SRT`, is separate and needs deleting yourself.

### Why does Google Photos still show a location after I cleaned the video?

Google Photos can estimate a location from other information when **Estimate missing locations** is on, and it keeps its own record for items already in your library. Upload the cleaned copy as a new item, or turn that setting off under **Photos settings**, **Privacy**, **Location options**.

### Can someone still work out where my video was filmed?

Possibly, from what is visible or audible: landmarks, shop signs, accents, weather. Removing metadata takes away the exact coordinates, not the clues in the picture.

### Do WhatsApp and Instagram remove the location from videos?

Most messaging and social apps do not publish a clear statement either way. [Do apps remove video metadata](https://metadata.video/do-apps-remove-video-metadata) collects what vendors say and shows how to test an app yourself.

### Can I remove location from a photo too?

Yes. Open the photo the same way and press **Remove location only**, or see [remove metadata from a photo](https://metadata.video/remove-metadata-from-photo) for everything else a picture holds.

## Related metadata guides

* [ Video metadata viewer See, explain, edit and remove everything a video or photo says about itself. ](https://metadata.video/)
* [ Remove metadata from a video Strip location, device, dates, XMP and telemetry from MP4, MOV and MKV files without re-encoding. ](https://metadata.video/remove-metadata-from-video)
* [ Remove location from iPhone photos and videos Turn off Camera location, use Adjust Location and No Location in Photos, and share without location. ](https://metadata.video/remove-location-from-video-iphone)
* [ Find where a video was taken Read a video’s GPS location and see it on a map, with altitude, accuracy and country. ](https://metadata.video/where-was-this-video-taken)
* [ How to see video metadata on Android Google Photos About and Samsung Gallery details, their limits, and removing location. ](https://metadata.video/view-video-metadata-android)
* [ Do apps remove video metadata? What Discord, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram and others say about stripping metadata, and how to test. ](https://metadata.video/do-apps-remove-video-metadata)
* [ Remove metadata from a photo Strip EXIF, GPS and XMP from JPEG, PNG, WebP and HEIC images without re-compressing them. ](https://metadata.video/remove-metadata-from-photo)