EXIF & Metadata Remover
Your photos carry hidden passengers: GPS coordinates, timestamps, device details. Drop them here and download clean copies — metadata stripped losslessly, pixels untouched, and nothing ever leaves your device.
Cleaned files will appear here, each with a list of what was found and removed.
What your photos quietly carry
Every photo from a phone or camera carries EXIF metadata: the exact GPS coordinates of where it was taken, the date and time down to the second, the device model and serial details, and the software used to edit it. Share the file and all of that travels with it. Some platforms strip it on upload — but email attachments, cloud-drive links, messaging apps in “document” mode, and your own website generally do not. If you post photos of your home, your children, or your daily routine, the location trail is the part to worry about.
What this tool removes — and keeps
Removed: EXIF blocks (including GPS positions), XMP metadata, IPTC/Photoshop blocks, text comments, and PNG text/timestamp chunks. Kept: the image itself, untouched — and the colour profile (ICC), because removing it would visibly change your photo's colours, and it contains nothing personal.
Lossless, not re-compressed
Most online “EXIF removers” re-encode your image, which quietly degrades JPEG quality. This tool works differently: it copies your file byte-for-byte and drops only the metadata segments, so the pixels that come out are bit-identical to the pixels that went in. The cleaned file is also re-opened in your browser as a final integrity check before you download it.
One honest caveat: orientation
Some phones store photos sideways and rely on an EXIF flag to display them the right way up. If your photo uses that flag, we remove it with the rest of the metadata and warn you in the results — if the cleaned image then appears rotated, open it in any editor, rotate it once, and save. Most modern photos are unaffected.
Privacy
Everything happens in your browser using the File API — your photos are never uploaded, and this page makes no network requests with your data. That is not a policy promise you have to trust; with the network tab open, it is a fact you can check.