Remove EXIF Data from Photos

Add your JPEG, PNG or WebP photos. The tool lists what's hidden in each one — camera, dates, GPS location, thumbnails and more — and gives you a cleaned copy to download. Nothing is uploaded.

Location is stored as GPS tags in EXIF and sometimes in XMP. Both are removed. Files that contained a location are flagged, and the “after” list is produced by reading the cleaned file again, so you can see it's gone.

EXIF is information your camera or phone writes into a photo: the make and model, lens and exposure settings, the date and time, sometimes a serial number, a small preview thumbnail and — if location was on — GPS coordinates. Editing apps can add more in XMP or IPTC blocks, such as software names, authors and edit history.

Add it here and look at the file list: any photo with GPS coordinates is flagged, with a count of how many files contained a location. Press Details to see every EXIF field the photo holds before cleaning, next to what's left afterwards.

No. The image data is copied byte for byte — only the metadata blocks are dropped, so there's no re-compression and no quality loss.

Many phone photos are stored sideways with a tag that says how to turn them. Removing that tag would show the photo rotated, so by default a new EXIF block with only the orientation is written back. Untick the option to remove it too.

An ICC color profile describes how to display colors accurately; it doesn't identify you. It's kept by default because removing it can make wide-gamut photos look dull. You can remove it as well.

Many large platforms strip EXIF, including location, from the public copy of an image, but you can't rely on it everywhere. Email attachments, cloud-storage links, file transfers, many forums and some messaging apps' “send as file” options pass on the original file with all its metadata, so it's safer to clean it yourself first.

Because the metadata is gone. Phone photos often carry an embedded thumbnail, XMP and maker data, and sometimes extra data after the image itself (such as additional pictures or depth maps), which can add anything from a few kilobytes to several megabytes. The picture data is unchanged.

Yes — up to 100 files, 80 MB each. Each one is listed with what was found, and you can download them separately or all together as a ZIP.

JPEG, PNG and WebP. HEIC, TIFF, RAW and video files aren't supported here — convert HEIC with the HEIC to JPG tool first (which doesn't copy metadata).