How to remove places album on iphone

In the Photos app on iPhone, you can find a Places album which allows you to see places on a map where your photos were taken. With the iPhone photo geotagging feature, your pictures appear on the map in the Photos app. Also when you export iPhone photos to computer or send them to other devices, the geolocation data will be carried over. They are saved in the photo’s EXIF metadata. Are you concerned about the possibility of people tracking your physical location using the pictures you post online? To tackle this problem, you can disable Geotagging on your iPhone, and/or block the access for people who you wouldn’t want to have access. In this article, we’ll show you how to turn off the geographic tagging for photos on iPhone and remove location information from iPhone photos.

Steps to disable GPS geotagging on iPhone

Tap into Settings, then choose Privacy >> Location Services. Find Camera app from the app list and toggle the switch to OFF. Now when you take photos, the location data won’t be saved with them.

The enabling or disabling of location service for the Camera app doesn’t affect those existing geolocation tagged pictures. Also if you use any third-party apps to shoot photos on iPhone, you might also need to disable location service for them in order to turn off the location tagging from your photos.

Check out below steps to view and edit the EXIF data of your photos, remove location information from photos on iPhone.

How to remove location data, GPS metadata from photos on iPhone?

In a related article, we discussed how you can view and edit metadata of iPhone photos using a image editor app. Load the geolocation tagged photo into the image editor on iPhone, you’ll see a screen like this.

Tap Metadata at the bottom, a list of various metadata types shows up.

Here you can remove the EXIF and GPS data from your photo. After that go to export the picture to your photo library without any location information tagged. You can go to delete the original geotagged photos from your iPhone.

If you Can’t Delete a Photo Album from the Photos App on iPhone, it might be a Protected Album or an Album Synced from another device on your iPhone.

Why Can’t I Delete Photo Albums from iPhone?

While user created Photo Albums can be easily deleted from iPhone, certain Photo Albums are protected and you won’t be able to delete them.

If you are unable to delete a Photo Album on iPhone, it is likely to be one of the following types of protected Photo Albums.

• Media Type Albums (Videos, Selfies, Screenshots, Panorama)
• Synced Photo Albums from Mac, iPad or Windows computer
• Photo Albums Automatically Created by iPhone (People, Places)

Apart from above, you should be able delete or remove all other Photo Albums from your iPhone/iPad.

How to Remove Synced Photo Albums from iPhone

While Synced Photo Albums cannot be deleted on iPhone, they can be removed by connecting iPhone to Mac or Windows computer.

1. Connect iPhone to Mac or Windows PC using its supplied lightning cable. If you are on Mac, open Finder and select your iPhone in the side menu.

If you are on a Windows computer, open iTunes > click on the Phone icon as it appears in iTunes and then select your iPhone in the side menu.

2. Next, switch to Photos tab, make sure Selected Albums option is checked, Uncheck Photo Albums that you want to remove from iPhone and click on Apply.

Note: This method only removes Photo Albums Syncing from other devices (iPad, Mac) on your iPhone. It won’t remove Photo Albums that were created on your device.

3. Wait for the changes to Sync with your iPhone.

Once the syncing process is completed, only the selected Photo Albums will remain on your device. All the unselected or unchecked Photo Albums will be removed from iPhone.

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