Turn off location data on your photos on Mac

Turn off location data for your photos on Mac

One of the drawbacks of the photographs taken with the mobile is that the location of the same can be recorded. When we share the images, The ubication it can also be shared. Some influencers may do it wantingly, but if you want to keep your privacy, you better know how to avoid it.

When you share photos from Mac, the metadata of the images is also shared and among them is the location. It's easy to avoid this little problem.

Share your photos, not your location

Sharing the location of the places where you have taken the pictures can seem funny and you could even get to hesitate from your incredible trips, but for your safety it is better that you learn to avoid it.

On Mac it is quite simple to be able to share the photos without having to share any more data, especially the location where they were taken.

We can enable a setting to disable this transfer of information. We just have to take into account the Photos preferences menu.

Therefore we will preferences> and there we will have the box that we have to uncheck. "Include location information for publications". That easy.

Turn off the location of photos when sharing them

There are other ways to do it. For example when using Photoshop, if you look at the file information, you will see a submenu that is the metadata. In this you can edit them and indicate as a default option not to include GPS data.

Although honestly, do you know what is the best way not to share the location? The answer is simple do not use this option when taking your pictures. By default on the iPhone it is activated but you can deactivate it.

In cameras with this capacity, you can also avoid it in its corresponding menu.

Prevention is better than cure. If we are ever in a hurry and forget to uncheck this box, we will share the location and someone we don't want may see what we don't want.

By the way, in social networks, normally in the images you upload, that data is deleted. The social network itself does so by default. But you never know, if they keep that data, to know what they do with it.


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