Image EXIF Data Remover
Securely strip metadata, location tags, and device info from your photos.
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This tool removes EXIF data from photos online. It strips the GPS location, camera and phone details, dates and editing tags from an image and gives you a clean copy to share. JPG and PNG files are cleaned without re-compressing the picture, and everything runs in your browser, so the photos are not uploaded. To look at the metadata before you remove it, use the EXIF Viewer.
What Gets Removed
| Metadata | What it contains | Removed |
|---|---|---|
| EXIF | GPS coordinates, date and time, camera or phone model, lens, exposure settings | Yes |
| XMP | Editing history, software, ratings, sometimes names of people | Yes |
| IPTC | Caption, author, credit, copyright | Yes |
| Comments and text chunks | Notes written by software | Yes |
| Orientation (JPG) | Which way up the photo should be shown | Kept, so the photo does not turn sideways |
| Colour profile | How colours should be displayed | Kept, so colours do not shift |
Removing the IPTC block also removes a copyright notice if the file has one. If you rely on that notice, keep an untouched original.
Why Remove Metadata Before Sharing
A phone with location turned on writes its position into every photo, often accurately enough to identify a home. The date, the device model and the software used are recorded too. A well-known case is that of John McAfee in 2012: a magazine published a photo of him while he was in hiding, the file still carried its GPS coordinates, and readers located him in Guatemala within hours. The risk for most people is more ordinary. A picture of something for sale, a pet or a child, posted where metadata is not stripped, can tell a stranger where you live.
How the Photo Stays Unchanged
A JPG file is a series of labelled segments followed by the compressed picture. EXIF, XMP, IPTC and comments each sit in their own segment. The remover copies the file and leaves those segments out, so the picture data is the same, byte for byte, and no quality is lost. PNG works the same way with its text and EXIF chunks. This differs from tools that open the picture and save it again, which compresses a JPG a second time. Formats this method does not cover are saved again through the browser at high quality.
How to Remove EXIF Data
- Add your photos: drag them into the box above or click to choose files.
- Strip the metadata: press the button to clean every file in the list.
- Download: save each clean copy, or download all of them as a ZIP.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I remove EXIF data from a photo?
Add the photo to the remover above and press the button to strip the metadata, then download the clean copy. You can add several photos and download them together as a ZIP. The original file on your device is not changed.
Does removing EXIF data reduce image quality?
Not for JPG and PNG. Metadata is stored in its own sections of the file, separate from the picture, so those sections are cut out and the image data is copied unchanged. Other formats, such as WebP, are saved again through the browser, which re-encodes the picture at high quality.
Does it remove the GPS location?
Yes. The location is part of the EXIF data, and the whole block is removed along with the camera details, dates and software tags. You can confirm it by opening the cleaned file in the EXIF Viewer on this site.
Will my photo turn sideways after the metadata is removed?
No. The direction a phone photo should be displayed is itself stored in the metadata. For JPG files the remover keeps that one orientation value and deletes everything else, so the picture still shows the right way up.
Do social networks remove EXIF data for me?
Most large ones strip metadata from the copy other people see, including Facebook, Instagram and X. That does not cover every way of sharing. A photo sent by email, as a file attachment in a chat, through a cloud link or on a forum usually keeps its metadata, location included.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The files are processed by your browser on your own device and are not sent to a server.