Guides: the location stored in a photo
A photo taken with location switched on carries the coordinates of the place it was taken, accurate to a few metres, inside the file itself. These guides explain how to read that location, change it, add one, or take it out — on a phone, on a desktop, or in this browser with nothing installed.
They are written to be useful without the tool. Where a phone, a file manager or ExifTool does the job, that is what they say; where Geotager is genuinely the shorter route, they say that too, and why. The one thing they never do is claim that an operation worked without telling you how to check it yourself.
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How to change the GPS location of a photo
Replace or correct the coordinates a photo already carries, without touching a single pixel.
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How to check the GPS location of a photo
Find out whether a photo carries a location at all, and read the exact coordinates it holds.
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How to remove the GPS location from a photo
Take the location out before you publish or send, and confirm no copy of it survives.
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How to add a location to a photo that has none
Give a place to a scan, a screenshot, or a photo taken with location switched off.
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Change or remove a photo’s location on iPhone
What the Photos app actually changes, and how to edit the file itself so the change travels with it.
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Which apps remove a photo’s location, and which pass it on
Why “they strip it anyway” is a side effect rather than a promise, and where it stops being true.