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EXIF Data Remover

Photos from phones and cameras carry hidden metadata: GPS coordinates of where they were taken, the date and time, the camera or phone model, its serial number, editing software and sometimes the author's name. This tool shows what each photo contains and saves a clean copy without it, either by removing the metadata blocks directly or by re-encoding the pixels.

Image Info & Metadata Runs in your browser

Remove Metadata From Photos

Drag and drop JPG, PNG or WebP photos here, or click to browseAccepted: JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP. Up to 40 MB each.
Contains no personal data; removing it can shift colours on wide-gamut photos.
Keeps only the EXIF orientation tag, which tells viewers how to rotate the photo.

How to Use the EXIF Remover

  1. Add one or more JPG, PNG or WebP photos.
  2. Keep “Remove metadata only” for no quality loss, or choose re-encoding to rebuild the files from pixels.
  3. Decide whether to keep the colour profile and the orientation tag.
  4. Press Remove metadata, read the report and download the cleaned files (ZIP for several).

About This Tool

Anyone posting photos online, selling items with pictures, sending images to strangers, or journalists and activists protecting their location.

Input: JPG / PNG / WebP  ·  Output: JPG / PNG / WebP.

Features and Limitations

Features

  • Removes EXIF (including GPS), XMP, IPTC/Photoshop blocks, JPEG and PNG comments and text chunks.
  • Lossless mode keeps the compressed image data byte for byte, so quality is unchanged.
  • Report shows the GPS position, camera, date and other items found in each file.
  • Batch processing with ZIP download; nothing is uploaded.

Limitations

  • Information visible in the picture itself, such as faces, street signs or reflections, is of course not removed.
  • Other formats (HEIC, TIFF, RAW) are not accepted; convert them to JPG first.
  • Lossless mode keeps unknown proprietary blocks in rare files; re-encoding removes absolutely everything.
  • Processing happens on your device, so very large files depend on your browser's available memory.

Example

A phone photo containing “GPS 48.8583° N, 2.2944° E”, “Apple iPhone 15” and a capture date is saved again with none of these, and in lossless mode its pixel data is identical to the original.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does removing EXIF reduce quality?

Not in the default “Remove metadata only” mode: the compressed picture data is copied unchanged and only the metadata blocks are dropped. Re-encoding JPG or WebP causes a tiny, usually invisible, quality loss.

Why keep the orientation tag?

Phones often store photos sideways and use this tag to show them upright. Removing it can make a photo appear rotated. It contains no personal information.

Do social networks remove metadata anyway?

Many large networks strip GPS on upload, but messaging apps, email, forums, cloud links and file transfers often keep it. Cleaning before sharing is the safe option.

Are my photos uploaded to clean them?

No. Reading and rewriting happen entirely in your browser.

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