How to remove the location in the photos you take with your Samsung Galaxy S6

Most of the latest generation smartphones, which of course includes the Samsung Galaxy S6, have an option that allows you to include the location where the images were taken. This can be very practical, since in this way we will never forget the place where we took a picture, which can be ideal when organizing our memories.

But there are also times when it can be bad for us that this information has been stored. For example, if we have gone somewhere without telling our partner or our family, it can be a chore that you can later see in the location of a photo, that we have been there. Therefore, we are going to tell you how you can prevent this information from appearing in the Metadata of your images.

How to remove location from photos on Samsung Galaxy S6

How to prevent location from being stored

If you don't want the location to appear in the metadata when you take a photo, all you have to do is open the app Camera and enter the Settings menu, which is accessed using the toothed wheel. Then you must enter the gear wheel that appears within that menu and the option location tag , click Deactivate. As you can see, it is a very simple process.

How to remove the location of a photo already taken

If what you want is to remove the location from a photo that you have already taken, you will have to go to the Gallery and choose the image you want to remove the information from. At the top you will find a menu with different options, and you will have to go to the More option.

Within this menu we will enter Details and press the Edit option. Next to the location, we will find a symbol – , which will be the one that we must press so that this information disappears. Once we have done it, we will click on Done and the location will be erased forever. As you can see, deleting the location is quite simple and will not take you more than a minute.

Have you ever needed to delete the location of an image? Has this trick been useful to you? Leave a comment below.


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      lourdes gonzalez said

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    how do i permanently delete photos taken, sent or received on my samsung s6? because when I want to send photos through WhatsApp, images appear that I already deleted in the gallery