Remove Photo Metadata

Every photo taken with a phone or camera carries a hidden block of information called EXIF metadata. It usually records the date and exact time, the device make and model, lens and exposure settings, sometimes the camera's serial number, and — if location services are on — the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken, accurate to a few metres. Photo editing apps may add more, such as XMP editing history or the author's name.

That information is useful in your own library, but it travels with the file when you share it. A photo of an item you're selling, sent from home, can reveal your home address. A picture of your children at school can reveal the school's location. Removing metadata before sharing is one of the simplest privacy habits you can adopt.

Strip metadata before posting photos on marketplaces like eBay, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace or Vinted; before uploading to forums, blogs and review sites; before sending pictures as email attachments or as "files" in messaging apps (which often preserve the original); before sharing cloud links; and before publishing images on your own website, where metadata can also reveal the software you use.

Journalists, activists and anyone dealing with sensitive subjects should always clean images before publishing. Businesses may also want to remove internal author names and device information from product photos.

Each photo is decoded in your browser and redrawn onto a fresh canvas containing only the visible pixels. The new file is then saved from that canvas, which by design contains no EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC data or embedded thumbnails. Before cleaning, the tool checks each file for an EXIF block and reports which photos actually contained metadata.

Orientation is handled automatically: phones often save photos sideways and use an EXIF tag to tell viewers to rotate them. The tool applies that rotation to the pixels before discarding the tag, so your cleaned photo looks right everywhere. JPG photos are re-saved at 95% quality, which is visually indistinguishable from the original; PNG files are lossless; WebP stays WebP. You can process dozens of photos at once and download them as a single ZIP.

Metadata removal cannot hide information that is visible in the picture itself — street signs, house numbers, reflections, documents on a desk or faces in the background. Look at the image carefully before you share it, and crop or blur anything sensitive. Colors are saved in standard sRGB, so wide-gamut or HDR photos may look marginally different. HEIC files from iPhones are not supported in every browser; convert them to JPG first or set your iPhone camera to "Most Compatible".

Your photos are checked for EXIF data and cleaned in your browser. Your GPS location, camera details and dates are read only on your device to show you whether metadata was found. That information is never sent or recorded. The cleaned copies are made in your browser and handed to you as downloads, and your original files are left unchanged.

Because nothing is uploaded, there is nothing to delete on a server. Your file only exists in this browser tab's memory while you work. It is cleared as soon as you press the × next to the file, reload the page or close the tab. We do not use cookies, local storage or any other browser storage to keep your files. The only lasting copy is the one you download, which is saved to your own device.

Most online converters upload your file to a server, process it there and send it back. all in tool works differently: the processing code is downloaded to your browser and runs on your own device. Your file is read from your disk into memory, transformed, and handed back to you as a download. It is never sent over the network, so there is nothing for us — or anyone else — to store, read or leak.

You can confirm this yourself: once the page has loaded, you can disconnect from the internet and the tool keeps working. This also means speed depends on your device rather than your connection, which is usually much faster for large files.