Your digital breadcrumbs might get you robbed
Geotaggingis a potential privacy and security risk.
To protect your personal information, prevent iPhone photos from storing location information on new photos you take.
Deleting geotagging information from new photos doesn’t delete it from older pictures you took with your phone.
You need an app for that.
Go toPrivacy>Location Services.
IfLocation Servicesis grayed out,Screen Timerestrictions may be enabled that prevent Location Services options from being changed.
This prevents geotag data from being recorded in future pictures taken with the iPhone’s built-in Camera app.
If other camera apps are installed on the phone, turn off the location-saving feature in those apps.
Press theHomebutton to close tweaks.
Images you take going forward are not tagged with location information.
To remove the geotag information from photos on your phone, use an app such asdeGeoorPixelgarde.
While you are on vacation, posting a picture that is geotagged confirms that you are not home.
This information provides criminals with knowledge of your whereabouts, which could aid in a robbery or worse.
However, geotags are useful as long as you keep the images to yourself.
Beyond those apps are other methods such as theiOS Shortcuts mini-appcalled “Where Was This Taken?”
