I can scribble out identifying info (text, landmarks, faces) in an image, but I’ve heard images can have some geographic data. How do I remove that?

And video is a whole separate challenge - I don’t know how to edit video. Does video have other metadata like my location or stuff about my device? What’s some software good for beginners? How do you remove excess metadata with it?

Are there other considerations I should have?

(If there are step-by-step resources out there, please feel free to just link me to them.)

Thanks in advance!

  • @DBT
    10•6 months ago

    If you have an iPhone you could make a basic shortcut to do that.

    Here’s what it would look like.

    Make sure to uncheck “Preserve Metadata.”

    • Prison Mike
      1•5 months ago

      Why convert to JPEG? Asking because I go out of my way to use the better quality HEIC (albeit proprietary).

      • @DBT
        1•5 months ago

        I didn’t make the shortcut, so I don’t know. But I convert to jpeg by default on my work phone because HEIC won’t open on my work computer.