Understand, find & edit your photos' locations

About your photos’ locations

Your photo may have a location if your device’s camera saves your location with the photo, or if you manually add a location to a photo. Google Photos also estimates your location from information such as landmarks and locations in your other photos.

You can only change or remove estimated locations and locations that you manually added to your photos. If a location was automatically added by your camera, you can’t update or remove the location in Google Photos.

To manage your photo or video location information, you can either add a location to a photo that doesn't have one or edit or remove an estimated location Photos has added.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open Google Photos .
2. Open the photo or video.
3. Tap More Add a location .
   • Add or select a location from your recent locations.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open Google Photos .
2. Open the photo or video.
3. Tap More   Edit .
   • Add or select a location from your recent locations.
   • To remove the estimated location, tap Remove location.

You can also edit the location of multiple photos:

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open Google Photos .
2. Select the photos whose location you want to edit.
3. Tap More Edit location.
   • Add or select the location.
   • To remove the location, tap Remove location.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open Google Photos .
2. At the top, tap your account profile photo or initial Photos settings .
3. Tap Privacy  Location options.
4. Turn Estimate missing locations on or off.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open Google Photos .
2. At the top, tap your account profile photo or initial Photos settings .
3. Tap Privacy Location options View and manage estimated locations.

If you share a photo with Google Photos, the location of your photo may be shared if you added it, changed it, or if it was provided by your camera.

You can control if your location is shared in each shared album, link, or conversation you create or join. If you set up partner sharing, all photos you share will include location details. 

The following situations happen if you choose to share the location of your photos: 

• If you add a location or edit an estimated location of a photo, and then share it with someone on Google Photos, you also share the location.
• If your camera adds a location and you share that photo on Google Photos, the photo shows the location provided by the camera.
• If you share a photo with a location estimated by Google Photos, the location won't be shared.

This doesn't affect photos or videos you share outside of Google Photos, such as when you download and email them to someone. In this 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 can guess the location based on landmarks in your photo.

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