Remove EXIF Data
Photos carry hidden data — often the exact coordinates where they were taken. Select an image and this shows you what it's revealing, then removes it without touching the picture itself.
- Select one or more JPEG, PNG or WebP images. The hidden metadata in the first one is listed immediately, including GPS coordinates if present.
- Leave the orientation tag on unless you have a reason not to — without it some phone photos display rotated.
- Click Remove Metadata. Cleaned copies download, and your originals are untouched.
What your photos are actually carrying
Every photo your phone takes is wrapped in a block of metadata called EXIF. Some of it is harmless — exposure, shutter speed. Some of it is not:
- GPS coordinates, usually to about five decimal places. That is precise enough to identify a specific building. If location services were on when you took the photo, it is almost certainly there.
- The exact date and time, to the second.
- Your phone or camera model, and sometimes a serial number, which links photos from the same device across different accounts.
- Editing software and history, in the XMP block.
- An owner name, if it was ever set on the camera.
Select a photo above and you will see exactly which of these your own files contain, with a map link for the coordinates. Most people are surprised.
Why this tool doesn't re-encode
Almost every metadata remover works by opening the image and saving a new copy. That drops the metadata — and also re-compresses the picture, losing a little quality every time.
This one edits the file structure directly instead. A JPEG is a sequence of labelled segments; the metadata lives in specific ones (APP1 for EXIF and XMP, APP13 for IPTC, COM for comments) and the picture lives elsewhere entirely. The tool removes just those segments and writes the rest through byte-for-byte. PNG text chunks and WebP metadata chunks are handled the same way.
The result: the image data is bit-identical to your original. No quality loss, no generational damage, no matter how many times you run it.
The orientation exception
One EXIF tag is worth keeping. Phones record which way up they were held rather than rotating the pixels, so removing everything can make a photo display sideways in some apps.
By default this tool preserves that single tag and removes everything else — it writes a minimal EXIF block containing only the orientation. You get correctly-displayed photos with no location, no camera, no date. Untick the box if you want the file completely bare and are happy to rotate it yourself.
What it cannot do
Stripping metadata does not make a photo anonymous. The picture itself still shows whatever it shows — a recognisable street, a house number, a reflection, a school uniform. Sensor noise patterns can in principle link photos to a specific camera. This tool removes the data that is trivially readable by anyone who right-clicks your file, which is the realistic threat, not a forensic one.