Your photos' location data is removed automatically

Photos straight off a phone often carry hidden metadata — most importantly the GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken. Turtini removes that for you so you never accidentally publish your home or a job site's location.

What happens when you upload an image:
• Turtini re-encodes the version everyone sees with all embedded metadata stripped out — no GPS, no camera details. Existing links keep working; only the hidden data is gone.
• Your untouched original is kept privately, readable only by you (the uploader) — it's never served publicly.

Getting your original back:
• Where a "Download original" option is offered, you (and only you) can pull down the full-resolution original with its metadata intact — handy if you need the GPS tag or camera info for your own records. Anyone else only ever gets the cleaned copy.

Profile photos:
• Your avatar is cleaned in your browser before it's even uploaded.

This runs on every image across the platform — you don't have to turn anything on.