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JPG works best (EXIF lives in JPG) · PNG and WebP accepted
See exactly what hidden metadata your photos carry — camera model, capture date, even GPS coordinates — then strip it all with one click before you share. Processing happens entirely in your browser.
JPG works best (EXIF lives in JPG) · PNG and WebP accepted
Every time a camera or phone takes a picture, it writes a hidden block of data into the file called EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format): the device make and model, the exact date and second of capture, exposure settings, orientation — and, if location services were on, GPS coordinates precise to a few meters. None of it is visible in the image itself, and none of it disappears when you email the file, upload it to a form, or put it in a document. Whoever receives the file can read all of it with any metadata viewer, including this one.
The privacy implications are concrete. A photo of an item you're selling, taken at home, can carry your home address as coordinates. Photos of children shared on forums can reveal a school's location. A "candid" image can contradict a timeline via its timestamp. There are well-documented cases of exactly these leaks — which is why every major social network (Instagram, Facebook, X) strips EXIF from uploads. But email, messaging apps in "document" mode, cloud drives, marketplaces, and your own website often don't. When you share a file directly, the metadata ships with it unless you remove it first.
Drop in a photo and the tool parses its EXIF block right in your browser and lays out what it finds — with a prominent warning if GPS coordinates are present. Clicking Remove All Metadata redraws the image pixels onto a fresh canvas and re-exports them: the visual content is preserved at full resolution, but the new file simply has no metadata block at all. This is the most reliable removal method there is — rather than deleting fields one by one (and hoping none were missed in maker-specific notes), the new file never contained any. The trade-off to know about: re-encoding a JPG applies one generation of high-quality compression, and any embedded color profile is replaced by the standard sRGB — irrelevant for sharing, worth knowing for print work.
It's worth noting that our other image tools — the Image Compressor, Image Resizer, and WebP Converter — strip metadata as a side effect of the same canvas process. This page adds the crucial first step: seeing what's in the file, so you know what you were about to share. For the broader picture on protecting files you share, read our file security guide.
Yes — both viewing and removal run entirely in your browser via JavaScript. The photo never leaves your device; you can load the page, disconnect from the internet, and everything still works.
Several common reasons: it's a screenshot (screenshots carry no camera EXIF), it was downloaded from a social network that already stripped it, it was processed by an editor that discarded it, or it's a PNG — cameras write EXIF chiefly into JPG files.
No visible change — pixels are preserved at full resolution. One subtlety: orientation stored in EXIF is applied to the pixels themselves during cleaning, so the photo displays right-side-up everywhere even though the orientation tag is gone.
Not from the cleaned file — it's a fresh encode that never contained the data. Your original, untouched file keeps its metadata, so store it safely if the information (like capture dates for your own archive) matters to you.
Strip for anything public or sent to strangers: marketplace listings, forum posts, job applications, websites. Keep it for your personal library (dates and locations power photo-app search) and for professional contexts where capture data matters, like photojournalism or insurance documentation.
On iPhone: Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera → Never. On Android: Camera app settings → turn off location tags. Photos already taken keep their coordinates until stripped.