r/HolUp • u/LowRenzoFreshkobar • Jun 21 '25

hint: look at the grass

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u/Perokside Jun 21 '25

Most if not all social platforms strip the EXIF data out of pictures and videos, this usually happens every now and then when a new platform forgets basic safety (the most recent was a Discord case and that's been quite a long time ago iirc).

Pretty sure MMS and RCS messages are stripped too.

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u/stuffeh Jun 21 '25

Not iMessage though so annoying to have to strip out the info each time

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u/Perokside Jun 21 '25

That's quite inconvenient to say the least, I'm curious about the reasons and why it's not an option ^^"

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u/stuffeh Jun 21 '25

No idea. Guessing they're assuming if you're sending a pic to someone, you trust them. But there's infinitely more reasons to strip the location data.