Remove Location and GPS Data From a Video

Last updated November 12, 2026

A phone video can store where it was shot in the file's metadata, and some cameras store a location for every moment of the clip. StripShot removes both in your browser without re-encoding, so the picture and sound are not changed. It also removes the device make and model and resets the recording date.

MP4, MOV and M4V, up to 500 MB. No re-encoding. The file is not uploaded. Scanning a video is free. Open the full-screen video cleaner.

Where a video stores its location

Apple's personal safety guide says that when the Camera has location access, coordinates "are embedded into each photo and video" (Apple). In a video file that location can sit in two places:

• A location tag. One set of coordinates for the whole clip, stored with the file's other metadata: the device make and model, the software, and the date.
• A GPS track. A separate track beside the picture and sound that holds a reading for each moment of the recording. Action cameras and dashcams use this to record a route, and phones can store timed metadata the same way.

A tool that only clears the tag leaves the track in place. StripShot removes both.

What a clean removes

• The location tag, in the QuickTime metadata keys and in the older location atom.
• Every track that is not picture or sound: timed metadata and GPS tracks, subtitles, chapters and timecode.
• The device make and model, and the names of the apps that wrote the file.
• Creation and modification dates, which are reset.
• Content Credentials and XMP, when the file has them.

The picture and sound data are copied as they are. Nothing is re-encoded, and the file is not uploaded. The scan lists what it found first, and scanning is free.

What a clean cannot remove

• Anything visible or audible in the video: a house number, a street sign, a landmark, a voice saying where you are.
• Coordinates or speed that a dashcam prints onto the picture itself.
• A location you add in an app when you post, such as a place tag.

On iPhone: stop the location at the source

Apple documents two settings (Apple):

• For one share: in Photos, select the item, tap the Share button, tap Options, and turn off Location. "Location Not Included" appears above the Options button. Apple writes this step for photos, and says location is embedded in videos as well.
• For new recordings: Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > Camera, then Never.

Apple describes this switch as removing the location. Its page does not say it removes the date or the device details. Removing them from the file itself does not depend on how you send it.

Android, and what apps do when you post

Camera apps on Android have their own location setting, and the steps differ by phone, so we have not listed them here. Check the settings of the camera app you use.

We have not tested what TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp or iMessage do with a video's location when you post or send it, and we did not find it stated on a page we could open, so we won't guess. If you don't know what a channel does, remove the location from the file first.

How to remove location from a video

• Drop the MP4, MOV or M4V into the cleaner at the top of this page.
• Read the scan. It lists a location, a GPS track, the device and the dates when the file carries them.
• Clean it and save the copy. The original file on your device is not changed.

Files up to 500 MB. Fragmented MP4 and WebM are not supported. The free plan cleans one video every 30 days. For photos, use the GPS remover for photos. For AI tags in a video, see the guide to removing AI metadata from video.

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