Remove EXIF Metadata
100% private — runs on your device, never uploaded. Works offline once loaded.
Remove hidden EXIF metadata — including GPS location, camera model and timestamps — by re-exporting your photo. Everything runs locally in your browser.
What EXIF data actually contains
Every time a digital camera or smartphone saves a JPEG, it embeds a block of Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data alongside the pixels. This isn't visible in the photo itself, but it rides along inside the file: camera make and model, lens and exposure settings, the exact date and time the shutter fired, the software used to edit it, and — if location services were on — GPS coordinates precise enough to pinpoint a specific room in a building.
Some phones also store a thumbnail preview inside the EXIF block, which is a separate privacy leak: cropping or editing the main image doesn't always update or remove that embedded thumbnail, so a 'redacted' photo can still carry the original uncropped version hidden inside it.
Why people strip it before sharing
The most common trigger is realizing that a photo taken on a phone with location services enabled tells anyone who inspects the file exactly where it was shot. Journalists protecting a source's location, people selling items on marketplaces from home, and parents posting photos of kids all have concrete reasons to drop the GPS tag before uploading.
Others strip metadata for more mundane reasons: matching a company's asset policy that forbids camera-identifying data in press photos, avoiding timestamp mismatches when re-uploading old scans, or simply reducing file size slightly by dropping a metadata block that serves no purpose once the photo is published online.
How this tool removes it
Rather than trying to selectively edit individual EXIF tags, this tool re-encodes the image and writes it back out without any metadata segment at all — the cleanest way to guarantee nothing sensitive survives. The pixel data itself is untouched, so there is no visible quality loss from this step.
- GPS latitude/longitude and altitude tags are dropped
- Camera make, model, lens and exposure settings are dropped
- Original capture date/time and software tags are dropped
- Embedded thumbnail previews are dropped along with everything else
A note on where metadata can reappear
Stripping EXIF protects the file you download, but remember that some platforms re-add their own metadata on upload (a few stock photo sites and DAM systems do this), and screenshots of a cleaned photo can obviously reintroduce nothing sensitive since screenshots don't carry the original camera metadata. If you're distributing a batch of photos from the same shoot, strip each one individually rather than assuming stripping one clears a shared album.
Frequently asked questions
What metadata is removed?
All EXIF data including GPS coordinates, camera settings, date taken and software tags.
Are my images uploaded?
No — stripping happens on your device and your files stay private.
What exactly gets removed?
All EXIF data — GPS coordinates, camera make/model, lens and exposure settings, capture date and time, software tags, and any embedded thumbnail preview — is stripped in one pass.
Will this reduce my photo's visual quality?
No. Only the metadata block is removed; the pixel data is re-encoded at the same quality, so there's no visible difference in the image.
Does it also remove the color profile (ICC) or copyright/IPTC tags?
The tool targets EXIF specifically, which covers GPS, camera and timestamp data. If your file also carries IPTC caption or copyright fields, check the output if that matters for your use case.
Can I strip metadata from a whole folder of photos at once?
Each photo is processed individually through the tool, so for a large batch you'll run them through one at a time rather than as a single archive.
Does this work on PNG and HEIC files, or only JPEG?
It's built primarily for JPEG, where EXIF is most common and most likely to contain GPS data; PNG rarely carries EXIF, and HEIC (the default iPhone format) may need converting first.
Are my photos uploaded to a server to do this?
No — the re-export happens on your device, so the version of the photo with GPS and camera data intact never leaves your browser.
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