Understand, find & edit your photos' locations

You can use your photos' locations to organize, search, and explore your photos based on where they were taken.

About your photos’ locations

Your photo may have a location if your device’s camera saves your location with the photo, or if you manually add a location to a photo. Google Photos also estimates your location from information such as landmarks and locations in your other photos.

You can only change or remove estimated locations and locations that you manually added to your photos. If a location was automatically added by your camera, you can’t update or remove the location in Google Photos.

Manage your photos' location

To manage your photo or video location information, you can either add a location to a photo that doesn't have one or edit or remove an estimated location Photos has added.

Add a location

On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
Open the photo or video.
Click Info Add a location.
- Add or select a location from your recent locations.

Edit or remove an estimated location

Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location.

On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
Open the photo or video.
Click Info .
Next to the location, click More Edit .
- Add or select a location from your recent locations.
- To remove the estimated location, click Remove location.

You can also edit the location of multiple photos:

On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
Select the photos you want.
Click More Edit location.
- Add or select the location.
- To remove the location, click Remove location.

Tip: When you select multiple photos or videos, you may be informed that Google Photos can't edit location information added by your camera. To proceed, deselect those photos or videos.

Estimate missing locations

Important: If you turn off location estimates, the previously estimated locations aren’t removed, but you can edit or delete them.

On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
At the top, click Settings Location.
Turn Estimate missing locations on or off.

Share a photo with a location

If you share a photo with Google Photos, the location of your photo may be shared if you added it, changed it, or if it was provided by your camera.

You can control if your location is shared in each shared album, link, or conversation you create or join. If you set up partner sharing, all photos you share will include location details.

The following situations happen if you choose to share the location of your photos:

If you add a location or edit an estimated location of a photo, and then share it with someone on Google Photos, you also share the location.
If your camera adds a location and you share that photo on Google Photos, the photo shows the location provided by the camera.
If you share a photo with a location estimated by Google Photos, the location won't be shared.

This doesn't affect photos or videos you share outside of Google Photos, such as when you download and email them to someone. In this case, the original location your device saved shows without any edits you made in Google Photos.

Even if you hide your photos' locations from people, they can guess the location based on landmarks in your photo.

When you add photos to shared albums, you can control if the location details of your photos are shared in each album.

On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
Click Sharing .
Select the shared album.
At the top, click More Options.
Turn on or off Share photo location.

You can also control if the location details of your photos are shared when you create a new shared album.

On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
Click Sharing Create shared album.
Add a title and photos to the new shared album.
At the top, click Share Album options.
Turn on or off Share photo location.

Tip: This option also appears when you share a private album for the first time.

When you add photos to a new conversation you create, it won’t include location details. Location sharing is turned off by default.

If you started a conversation before August 18 2021, any photos that you add or previously added to that conversation will show their locations unless you previously turned off location sharing for that conversation.

To share location details for the photos that you add, or have added, to a specific conversation:

On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
Click Menu Sharing .
Click the conversation.
In the conversation, click your account profile picture or initial.
Turn on Share photos location.

Important: If you set up partner sharing, all photos you share have location details. If you set up partner sharing before August 18 2021, your photos’ location information will be shared unless you previously disabled this.

To check if you’re sharing location details in partner sharing:

On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
Click Menu Sharing .
Click your partner’s name.
At the top, click More Settings.
From “Your partner can access,” you can check if you share location details.

Tip: If you aren't sharing location details, but would like to, remove your partner and invite them again.

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