Understand locations & edit them
Your photo may have a location if:
- Your device saves your location.
- You added a location.
- Google Photos might estimate a location using information such as your Google Location History, which is stored in your Google Account, or landmarks detected in your photo such as the Eiffel Tower.
- To see if Location History is turned on, check your Google Location History.
Add or edit a location
Currently, you can’t add or edit a location on your Android phone, but you can do it on your desktop. At the top, tap Computer.
Share a photo with a location
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.
Remove an estimated location from a photo
You can remove locations that were estimated by Google Photos.
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app
.
- Open a photo or video.
- Next to the location, click More
Info.
- Select No location.
Stop people from seeing the location of your photos
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app
.
- Tap Menu
Settings
Remove geo location. New albums, links, conversations, or shared libraries you share won’t have the location details.
Note: Changes to this setting do not affect shared albums or conversation that you have already contributed to. This also does not affect photos or videos shared differently, for example by downloading and emailing them to someone. Then, the original location saved by your device will show without any edits you may have made in Google Photos.