EXIF Remover
See the hidden data in a photo, including GPS location, and download a clean copy. 100% free, no signup. Everything runs in your browser.
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Every photo from a phone or camera carries a hidden passenger list: the device that took it, the moment it was taken, the camera settings, and very often the exact GPS coordinates of where you were standing. Post that photo, email it, list something for sale with it, and the passenger list travels along. Most people have never seen it, which is why the first thing this tool does is show it to you.
Drop in a JPG and the metadata appears as a table. If there are GPS coordinates, they are called out separately with a map link, because a photo taken at home is a photo that knows your address. Then one button downloads a clean copy with all of it removed. The removal is byte surgery on the file's structure, not a re-save, so the image itself is untouched: every pixel identical, same resolution, same colors, just none of the story attached. And since this is a privacy tool, it would be absurd to upload your photo anywhere; everything runs on your device.
How to use
- Drop a JPG photo onto the box, or press Choose a photo.
- Read the table. Camera, dates, settings and software used are the usual entries.
- Check the location warning. If the photo has GPS coordinates, a red box shows them with a link to see exactly where on a map.
- Press Download a clean copy. The new file has every metadata segment removed.
- The filename gets a -clean suffix so you never confuse the two versions.
- The status line tells you how many bytes of metadata were removed. The pixels are byte-for-byte identical.
Why use our exif remover?
The first benefit is seeing before scrubbing. Most strippers are a black box: file in, file out, trust us. This one shows you exactly what the photo was carrying, which is worth doing once even for the education; people are reliably shocked to find their home coordinates in a photo of a sofa they were selling. The second is that cleaning does not touch the image. Tools that strip metadata by re-saving the JPG re-compress it, quietly costing quality on every pass. Ours copies the image data untouched and simply leaves the metadata segments out, so the clean copy is pixel-identical. The color profile is deliberately kept, because dropping it visibly shifts colors on wide-gamut photos.
Around the site, this is the inspection room. Photos that go through the image compressor or HEIC to JPG converter lose their metadata as a side effect of re-encoding; this tool is for when you want the original pixels kept and only the metadata gone, or when you want to see what is in a file before deciding. For a whole listing's worth of product shots, run each through and check the location warning goes away.
It is worth knowing what EXIF is for, so the removal is a choice rather than a reflex. Photographers rely on it: the settings that made a shot, lenses used, copyright lines, and the timestamps photo libraries sort by. Strip a photo you plan to keep and your library may file it under today's date instead of the day it was taken. The right habit is to keep your originals as they are and clean the copies that leave the house. That is why this tool never modifies the file you drop in; it always writes a separate clean copy with its own name.
Who is this tool for?
Online sellers are the sharpest case. Marketplace photos are taken at home, and a surprising number of platforms leave EXIF intact when the image is downloaded. That is a stranger with your coordinates and a photo of your valuables. Landlords and hosts photograph their properties; job seekers attach headshots; none of those need a location embedded. Parents sharing photos of children should assume every recipient can read EXIF, because every recipient can.
Journalists and researchers scrub photos before publication to protect sources and locations. Anyone posting to forums, review sites or social platforms that do not strip metadata should do it themselves first. And sometimes the tool is used the other way around: checking whether a photo you received still has its metadata, and what it reveals, before you forward it anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
No, and for this tool especially that is the point. Reading and stripping both happen on your device. Load the page, disconnect from the internet, and it all still works.
Not here. The clean copy contains the identical image data; only the metadata segments are left out. This is different from tools that re-save the JPG, which re-compress and lose a little quality each time.
EXIF (camera, settings, dates, GPS), XMP editing history, Photoshop resource blocks and free-text comments. The color profile is kept on purpose, because removing it changes how the photo looks.
The big ones mostly strip it from what other users download, but they read it themselves first, and smaller sites, forums and email do nothing at all. The only version you control is the one you clean before it leaves your machine.
Screenshots have almost none, WhatsApp and most messengers strip it in transit, and some export workflows already removed it. No metadata is the good outcome; the tool confirms it rather than inventing something to remove.
This tool reads JPG, which is where cameras put metadata. PNG screenshots carry almost nothing. For HEIC photos, our HEIC to JPG converter drops the metadata as part of conversion.
Not selectively here; the clean copy removes the whole metadata block, which is the only version you can hand out without checking field by field. If you want camera settings preserved for a portfolio, keep the original for yourself and publish the clean copy.