Remove Photo Metadata (EXIF)

See the location, date, camera and owner details hidden in your photos, then remove them without re-encoding. Everything runs locally in your browser - your files are never uploaded to a server, no registration is required, and the tool is completely free.

How to Remove Photo Metadata (EXIF)

  1. Choose one or more photos (JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC). They are read on your device and never uploaded.
  2. Check what each photo reveals: GPS location, date taken, camera and serial number, software, owner, and any embedded thumbnail. Open the full table to see every field.
  3. Leave 'Keep orientation' on so portrait photos stay upright, then press Remove metadata.
  4. Download the cleaned photo, or all of them as one ZIP. Each file is read again after cleaning to confirm 0 metadata fields are left.

Features

Frequently asked questions

What metadata is removed?
EXIF (including GPS, camera, serial number and the embedded thumbnail), XMP, IPTC/Photoshop data and JPEG comments. In PNG files: text chunks (tEXt, zTXt, iTXt), eXIf and the tIME timestamp. In WebP files: the EXIF and XMP chunks. Data stored after the end of the image, such as a phone's second image or motion-photo video, is removed too.
Does removing metadata reduce quality?
Not for JPEG, PNG or WebP. Those are cleaned without re-encoding, so the pixels are identical. HEIC photos are different: they are converted to JPEG first, which re-encodes them once and carries no metadata over.
What is kept?
What affects how the image looks: the JFIF header, the ICC colour profile and the Adobe colour-transform marker in JPEG, and colour, transparency, resolution and animation chunks in PNG and WebP. With 'Keep orientation' on, a single Orientation tag is also kept.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. Photos are read and cleaned in your browser. The only network request is the optional 'Open in OpenStreetMap' link, which you have to click yourself and which sends the coordinates to openstreetmap.org.
Does this make a photo anonymous?
It removes the metadata stored in the file. It cannot change what is visible in the picture itself, such as faces, street signs or reflections. Check those before sharing.

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