Understand, find & edit your photos’ locations

You can use your photos' locations to organize, search, and explore your photos based on where they were taken.

Your photo may have a location if:

• Your device's camera saves your location with the photo.
• You add a location.
• Google Photos estimates your location from information such as your Google Location History or landmarks detected in your photo.
  • Check if your Google Location History is turned on.

If you share a photo using Google Photos, the location of your photo may be shared if you added it, changed it, or if it was estimated by your device.

The following situations happen if you don’t stop people from seeing the location of your photos. 

• If you add a location to a photo, then shared it with someone on Google Photos, you'll also share the location.
• If your device estimated a location, and you shared that photo on Google Photos, it will show the location estimated by the device.
• If you edited a location that was estimated by your device, and then shared that photo on Google Photos, it will show the edited location.
• If you shared a photo with a location that was estimated by Google Photos, and then shared that photo on Google Photos, the estimated location will not be shared.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open Google Photos .
2. Tap a photo or video More .
3. Next to the location, tap Remove .

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open Google Photos .
2. At the top right, tap your profile photo or initial Photo settings.
3. Turn on Hide photo location data.

New albums, links, conversations, or items you share with a partner won't have location details.

This setting won't affect shared albums or conversations that you already contributed to. This also doesn't affect photos or videos you share differently, such as when you download and email them to someone. In that case, the original location your device saved shows without any edits you made in Google Photos.

Even if you hide your photos' locations from people, they may be able to guess based on landmarks in your photo.

• Tap the Search tab.
• Tap the map in a photo's info section.
• Tap place names in the main photo grid's date headers.

The grid contains the photos in your library that are in the visible map area, including shared photos you've saved.

• To change the area of focus: Pinch and zoom the map. 
• To find photos you took in the visible map area: Scroll the grid or tap the heatmap.

Tip: Black dots on the map are photos you took on the same day.

1. On your Android device, open the Camera app's settings.
2. Turn the location setting on or off.

Important: This setting varies by manufacturer. Learn how to change your location settings on your device.