Add, edit, or remove a location from a photo

Your photo may have a location if:

• Your camera’s GPS saves your location.
• Google Photos might estimate a location using information such as your Google Location History (if turned on), which is stored in your Google Account. Check your Google Location History. You can edit or remove a location that was estimated by Google Photos.
• You added a location.

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

These situations will only happen if you don’t stop people from seeing the location of your photos. Learn how to change your settings below.

• If you add a location to a photo, then shared it to someone on Google Photos, you will also share the location.
• If you share a photo with a location that was estimated by Google Photos, the location will not be shared.
• If you changed a location that was estimated by your device, and then shared that photo on Google Photos, it will show the edited location.
• If you changed a location that was saved by your camera’s GPS, and then shared that photo to other apps or downloaded it, it may show the original location saved by your camera’s GPS.

Remove a location from a photo

You can remove locations that were estimated by Google Photos.

1.  On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
2. Open a photo or video.
3. Next to the location, click More  Info.
4. Select “No location.”

 Stop people from seeing the location of your photos

When you share a photo using a link, the location of your photo may be shared if you added it or if it was estimated by your device. 

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
2. Tap Menu   Settings Remove geo location. Anything you share using a link won’t have a location.

Note:

• If you share a photo or video differently, for example, downloading and emailing it to someone, it may still have the location.
• If you’ve already shared the photo or video using a link before you changed this setting, it will still show the location.