Photo EXIF Remover
See the hidden data in your photos (GPS, date, phone) and remove it with no quality loss.
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Keep a copy of your original file. Check the result before you use it. Terms of use
How to Use
- Drop one or more photos (JPG, PNG or WebP) into the box, or tap it to choose them from your gallery.
- For each photo, see what it gives away: camera or phone model, date and time taken, GPS location, software, serial numbers and any embedded preview. Items that can identify you are shown in red.
- The metadata is removed straight away, without re-compressing the photo. Only the rotation flag is kept, so the photo still shows the right way up.
- Tap Download clean photo, or Download all as ZIP for several photos, and share the clean copies instead of the originals.
What is photo metadata (EXIF)?
Every photo taken on a phone or camera carries hidden information alongside the picture. This is called metadata, and the most common format is EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format). It usually records the phone or camera model, the exact date and time the photo was taken, the camera settings, and the editing app. If location was switched on in the camera app, it also records the GPS coordinates of where you were standing.
Some apps, including WhatsApp and most social networks, remove this information when you post a photo. Many other routes keep it: sending a photo "as a document" on WhatsApp, emailing it, uploading it to a website, form or online marketplace, or sharing the file through cloud links. Anyone who receives the original file can read the metadata with free tools and open the location on a map. For a photo taken at home, that means your address.
What this tool finds and removes
| Metadata | What it can reveal |
|---|---|
| EXIF GPS | Latitude, longitude and altitude of where the photo was taken |
| EXIF date and time | When you were at that place, often with your time zone |
| Camera / phone model, serial numbers | Which device took it; serial numbers can link photos to the same camera |
| Embedded preview (thumbnail) | A small copy of the photo. Some editors don't update it after cropping, so it can show what you cropped out |
| XMP | Editing history, ratings, sometimes location and the author's name |
| IPTC / Photoshop, comments, PNG text | Captions, author, copyright and contact details |
| Data after the image | Motion-photo video clips, depth maps and extra images some phones attach |
How it removes metadata without losing quality
Many tools remove metadata by redrawing the photo and saving it again as a new JPG. That re-compresses the image and loses some quality each time. This tool doesn't re-encode the photo.
- A JPEG file is a series of blocks called segments. The tool keeps only the ones needed to show the picture: the image data, the compression tables, the colour profile and the JFIF and Adobe headers. It cuts out the EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comment and camera-maker blocks, and anything stored after the end of the image.
- For PNG, it removes the eXIf, text, XMP and timestamp chunks. For WebP, it removes the EXIF and XMP chunks and updates the file header.
- The picture data is copied byte for byte, so the clean photo looks identical and is usually a few KB to a few hundred KB smaller.
Phones often store portrait photos sideways and add an "Orientation" tag that tells viewers to rotate them. Removing that tag would make portrait photos appear sideways, so the tool writes back a tiny EXIF block that contains only the rotation and nothing else.
Your photos stay on your phone
All of this happens inside your browser. The photos are never uploaded to any server, so it is safe to use even for private pictures.
Tips
- To stop location being saved at all, turn off location tagging in your camera app's settings (on many Android phones it's called "Location tags" or "Save location"). On iPhone, go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera.
- When you choose photos in a phone's share sheet, some phones offer to remove location before sharing. Check for that option.
- HEIC photos from iPhones aren't supported here. When you pick photos through a browser, iPhones usually convert them to JPG automatically. Otherwise, set Settings → Camera → Formats to "Most Compatible".
- Screenshots and edited images can still carry the editing app's name and date. Check them before you post.
- Removing metadata doesn't hide what's visible in the photo itself. House numbers, vehicle plates, school uniforms and landmarks can still give away a location.