EXIF Data Remover

Drop photos here or browse JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF - up to 100 files at once GPS removed Pixels untouched Nothing uploaded

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Metadata is cut out of the file - the photo itself is not re-compressed, so the quality stays exactly the same.

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How to Remove EXIF Data From Photos

Add your photos. Drop up to 100 JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF files into the box, or browse for them.

See what is hidden. Each file shows its GPS position, camera, date, serial numbers and other metadata, marked by how private it is.

Choose what to keep. Keep the colour profile and the orientation tag (both on by default), and optionally your artist and copyright credit.

Remove and download. Press Remove metadata. The tool checks every clean file and confirms the image data is identical.

Curious first? Press Try a sample photo with GPS - it carries a made-up camera, date and a location in Paris.

What Your Photos Give Away

Every phone photo carries a small data sheet you cannot see.

Private

GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres, camera and lens serial numbers, the owner's name.

Enough to find a home address.

Personal

The exact date and time, the camera or phone model, author and copyright fields.

Links photos to you and your routine.

Technical

Exposure, software, editing history (XMP) and a hidden thumbnail.

The thumbnail can show the photo before you cropped it.

Many social networks strip EXIF when you upload - but email, chat apps sending "files", cloud links, forums and marketplaces often do not.

Lossless: Why Your Photos Stay Exactly the Same

Most EXIF removers decode the photo and save it again, which recompresses a JPEG and loses a little quality each time.

This tool reads the file structure instead. In a JPEG, metadata lives in separate blocks (APP1, APP13, COM) in front of the image data. Those blocks are cut out and the compressed picture is copied byte for byte. After cleaning, the tool reads the new file again and confirms no metadata left and image data identical.

Format	Removed	Kept
JPG / JPEG	EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments, MPF, trailing data	Image data, JFIF, Adobe, ICC (optional)
PNG	tEXt, zTXt, iTXt, eXIf, tIME	Image data, palette, transparency, ICC, DPI
WebP	EXIF, XMP	Image data, animation, alpha, ICC (optional)
GIF	Comments, XMP	Frames, timing, loop setting

Tips

iPhone photos (HEIC): convert them with HEIC to JPG - the JPG is written without EXIF.

Selling something online? Strip the GPS, then make the photo lighter with Compress JPG or smaller with the Image Resizer.

Want to read every tag? The EXIF Viewer lists all of them, and the JPG Analyzer shows the file structure.

Turn off location at the source: in your camera app settings, switch off location tags for photos you plan to share.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drop your photos into the box. The tool shows what each file hides - GPS location, camera, date, serial numbers - then press Remove metadata and download the clean copies.

One or two files download directly, three or more come as one ZIP.

No. The metadata blocks are cut out of the file byte by byte and the compressed image data is copied unchanged, so every pixel stays exactly the same. After cleaning, the tool checks this and shows Image data identical.

The only exception is Rotate pixels, which re-saves sideways photos on purpose.

No. Your photos are read and cleaned inside your browser and never leave your device - which is the whole point of a privacy tool.

EXIF (GPS, camera make and model, dates, serial numbers, owner name, maker notes, the embedded thumbnail), XMP editing data, IPTC captions and keywords, comments, multi-picture data and hidden data after the end of the image, such as motion photo clips.

For PNG it removes text, eXIf and time chunks; for WebP the EXIF and XMP chunks; for GIF comments and XMP.

Yes. By default only the Orientation tag is kept - a tiny EXIF block with no personal data - so phones and browsers still show the photo upright. You can also rotate the pixels for real, or remove the tag too.

A colour profile (ICC) tells apps how to show the colours - without it, photos from newer phones can look dull. It holds no location or personal data, so it is kept by default. You can switch it off under What to keep.

JPG / JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF are cleaned losslessly. HEIC and TIFF cannot be rewritten in a browser - convert them with HEIC to JPG or TIFF to JPG first, the result carries no EXIF. BMP files cannot hold EXIF at all.

It removes the hidden data, but not what is visible in the picture. Street signs, faces, screens and reflections can still give away where you are - blur them with Censor Photo before you share.