Need to turn off ‘Categories’ on Unwind Theme

Hellow everyone n thx for your time! :)

Im doing my best to turn off the ‘category’ labels showing up as white text on a black rectangle background on top of the single posts yet there doesnt seem to be a way to deselect this. Help n thx, heres an example :

www.blackswansibyl.com

we are simply wanting to show the photo without the categories text on top.

1. We deleted selected categories vinked on, that creates a default ‘uncategorized’ category n shows that.

2. Weve gone into ‘appearance > customize > theme settings > blog yet theres no check box for turnig it off, only having them activated on single and archive posts.

3. Ive used custom css as well ‘/* hide page category, post title and author/dates */
.post-byline {
display: none!important;
}
.post-meta {
display: none!important;
}

nothings changed.

Work arounds
A. I tried band-aiding the problem by using a white ‘.’ on a black shape ‘~’ etc… odd.

B. Not using photos will delete it yet it also deletes an important blog design factor. not an option.

Options? what am I missing? Its engrained yet is it possible to unearth it from another part of the theme? We see n THX everyone for the skills effort & time!

Brian
designer