Remove EXIF Data from Photos
See exactly what your photos are carrying — GPS coordinates, camera model, timestamps — then strip it out. The pixels are left untouched, and nothing is uploaded.
Your photos?JPG, PNG and WebP. Metadata is read and removed on this device. Uploading a photo to strip its privacy data would defeat the purpose, so this tool never does.
Drop photos in to see what they reveal before you share them.
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Clean
Removes EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC and comments.
Lossless. Metadata is cut out of the file structure. Your image data is copied across byte for byte, so there is no quality loss.
Why this matters
A photo is not just a picture.
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Photos carry your location
Most phones write GPS coordinates into every photo, accurate to a few metres. Post one taken at home and you have published your address.
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And a great deal more
Camera model, serial numbers, the exact date and time, editing software, and sometimes the owner's name are all stored alongside the image.
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Check, then strip
Drop a photo in to see exactly what is there. Remove it, and the picture itself is completely unchanged.
Questions
Does removing metadata reduce image quality?
No. Metadata lives in separate blocks alongside the compressed image data, so those blocks are simply not copied into the new file. The image data itself is transferred byte for byte, which means the result is pixel-identical to the original. This is different from tools that re-save the photo and quietly re-compress it. The one exception is the orientation option described below.
What is the "keep photos the right way up" option?
Phones often store a photo sideways and add a rotation flag telling viewers to turn it. That flag is part of the EXIF, so removing the EXIF removes the instruction and the photo can appear rotated. With the option ticked, any photo relying on that flag is genuinely rotated first, which does re-encode it. Photos that do not use the flag, which is most of them, stay lossless regardless.
Are my photos uploaded?
No, and that is the whole point. Handing a photo to a stranger's server in order to remove its privacy data would be self-defeating. Everything here is read and rewritten inside your browser, and closing the tab erases it all.
Which metadata is removed?
For JPG: EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, Photoshop blocks and comments. For PNG: tEXt, iTXt, zTXt, eXIf and tIME chunks. For WebP: EXIF and XMP chunks. Colour profiles are kept, since removing them can visibly shift colours on wide-gamut displays.
Does this remove watermarks or hidden tracking in the image?
No. This removes metadata stored beside the image, not anything drawn into the pixels themselves. A visible watermark, or an invisible pattern encoded in the pixel data, is unaffected. Be clear about what this protects you from.