To add or change a photo's location on iPhone, open the photo in Photos, tap the More button, then tap Adjust Info and Adjust Location. Type where it was taken, tap the right place when it appears under Map Locations, and the photo moves to that spot on your map. To fix a whole trip at once, select all its photos first and follow the same steps.
You can undo it at any time: the same menu has a Revert option that puts back the original location.
Add or change the location of one photo
- Open the Photos app and tap the photo or video.
- Tap the More button (three dots).
- Tap Adjust Info, then Adjust Location.
- Type the place: a town, a landmark, a hotel or an address.
- Tap the right result under Map Locations.
There's a shortcut too. Swipe up on the photo to open its details. If it has a location, tap Adjust next to it; if it doesn't, tap Add a location.
These are the steps in Apple's guide for recent iOS versions. Apple moves buttons between versions, so if you don't see Adjust Info, swipe up on the photo and look for the location section there.
Fix a whole trip at once
Old trips are where this pays off: a week of photos from a camera without GPS, or a box of scanned prints from 1998.
- In the Photos library, tap Select.
- Tap every photo from the same place. For a trip, select a whole day or run of days.
- Tap the More button, then Adjust Info > Adjust Location, and choose the place.
All the selected photos get the same location. That's fine for a country list, since every photo from that week in Portugal now sits in Portugal. It's less fine for a road trip, where one location for everything puts Lisbon, Porto and the Algarve on the same pin. For those, work a day at a time.
Undo a change, or remove a location
- Go back to the original: follow the same steps and tap Revert. The photo returns to the date, time or location it was taken with.
- Remove the location entirely: in Adjust Location, choose No Location. Apple's Personal Safety guide lists this for photos you don't want to carry a place at all.
If you only want to send a photo without its location, there's no need to remove it from your library. Turn location off in the share options instead; see how to share a photo without its location.
Choosing the right place
How exact you need to be depends on why you're doing it:
- For a list of countries, the city is plenty. "Kraków" puts a photo in Poland as surely as a street address.
- For a map you'll look back at, use the landmark or neighborhood: "Sagrada Família" rather than "Barcelona."
- For counting days or nights abroad, the date matters as much as the place. If a photo's date is wrong too, fix it from the same menu with Adjust Date & Time. Our guide to counting the days you've spent in each country explains why.
If you're placing a photo taken far from home, look at its time afterward. The time shown can follow the place's time zone, so check the clock still reads what you expect.
Working out where an old photo was taken
When you know the trip but not the spot:
- Its neighbors. Photos sit in date order. The pictures before and after it, if they have locations, usually tell you.
- The picture itself. Signs, languages, number plates and landmarks.
- Other records. Booking emails, a diary, an old passport stamp, or a travel partner's photos from the same day. How to remember every place you've traveled lists more.
Our guide on how to see where a photo was taken covers the details panel these edits show up in.
What happens after you change it
The new location replaces the old one everywhere Photos uses it: the details panel, the map of your library, search and trip collections. If iCloud Photos is on, Apple says changes you make on one device show up on your other devices too, so a fix on your iPhone also appears on your Mac.
The edited photo then appears in the right place on your Photos map, and anything that reads photo locations, like a travel tracker, sees the new place.
You don't always have to edit photos to fix your travel record, though. If a whole trip has no located photos, it's quicker to add the country to your list directly. In Globestamp you can add, take off or change any stamp by hand, and a rescan never undoes what you set.
Why so many photos need this
A photo usually lacks a place because Camera's location access was off, it came from a separate camera, or it arrived through an app that removed it. Why some of your iPhone photos have no location explains each cause, and how to make your iPhone save where each photo was taken stops it happening again.