Remove EXIF Data

See what your photo is carrying

Drop a photo in and everything hidden inside it is listed on the right: the camera or phone that took it, the lens, the date and time, the exposure settings, the software that last touched it, and the GPS location if there is one.

The location is the part that matters. If it is there, it is shown first with the exact coordinates and a link that opens them on a map, so you can see for yourself how precise it is. This hidden information is called EXIF. It is invisible when you look at the photo but travels with the file, so a picture taken at home and posted to a marketplace listing or a forum can carry the coordinates of your front door.

Remove metadata from a photo

1. Drop in the photo, or several. Each one appears in the strip at the bottom; the panel shows the details for whichever is selected, and hovering a thumbnail shows how many fields it carries.
2. Check the list on the right if you want to know what is being removed.
3. Press Remove metadata. Every hidden block is removed: EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, maker notes and the embedded thumbnail, which sometimes shows the uncropped original.

For JPG and PNG this is done without touching the picture at all. The metadata sections are cut out of the file and the compressed image data is copied across untouched, so the result is pixel-for-pixel identical to the original and the operation is instant. Other formats (HEIC, WebP, AVIF, GIF) are rebuilt from the raw pixels, which drops every block by construction.

There is one case where the picture is adjusted: a phone photo that was stored sideways with a note saying how to rotate it. Removing the note would leave it sideways, so the tool rotates the pixels upright first and then removes everything.

Clean a whole batch before sharing

Drop in every photo you are about to send and press Clean 20 images. Each one is listed in the strip, each is stripped on its own, and you get a ZIP back. Because JPG and PNG are handled without re-encoding, even a large batch finishes in a few seconds.

When it matters

Social networks mostly strip metadata when you post, but only for what goes through them. Email attachments, WhatsApp files sent as documents, cloud share links, marketplace and rental listings, forum uploads and anything sent to a printer usually keep the original file intact, location included. Photos of your home, your children, or anything you sell from your address are the ones worth cleaning first.

Because the reading and the stripping both happen in your browser, the photo and its location data are never sent anywhere, including to this site.

Frequently asked questions