Remove EXIF data from photos
Photos carry hidden metadata — including GPS location. Strip it out before you share, right in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
How to remove EXIF data
What EXIF data your photos carry
Every photo taken with a phone or camera carries a block of hidden information called EXIF. It is not part of the picture you see, but anyone who opens the file in a photo app, an image editor or an online metadata viewer can read it. Typical EXIF data includes the make and model of the phone or camera, the date and time the photo was taken, the exposure settings, the orientation of the camera and often a small preview image.
The part that matters most for privacy is location. When location services are on, phones write GPS coordinates into each photo, accurate enough to show the house, school or office where it was taken. Some services remove metadata when you upload, but many do not, and files sent by email, shared in a cloud folder, attached to a forum post or listed on a marketplace usually keep everything.
Remove EXIF and GPS data before you share a photo
Drop the photos on the tool above and each one is cleaned straight away. The tool draws the picture on a canvas in your browser and saves it again as a new file, and that new file contains only the image: no GPS coordinates, no date and time, no camera model and no other metadata. Each result row says Location & metadata removed, with the size before and after.
The photos are never uploaded, which matters here more than anywhere: the whole point is to keep the location of your home or your children private, and sending the files to a server to clean them would defeat that. You can clean up to 30 photos at once, up to 50 MB each, and download them one by one or all together as a ZIP. Your original files still contain their metadata, so share the cleaned copies, not the originals.
For a longer walk through EXIF, including how to check what a photo contains and how to stop your phone adding location in the first place, read how to remove EXIF data from photos.
What else changes when metadata is stripped
Because each photo is saved again, the format and quality follow the original where possible. A JPG stays a JPG and is saved at quality 92, a high setting where the difference from the original is very hard to see. A PNG stays a PNG and is lossless, so not a single pixel changes. A WebP stays a WebP at quality 92. An iPhone HEIC photo or an AVIF image comes back as a JPG at quality 92, because browsers cannot save those formats, and its file name ends in .jpg instead.
The file size can go up or down a little, depending on how the original was saved. The picture keeps its width and height in pixels. A photo that relied on its orientation tag is saved the way it is displayed, so it still looks upright after the tag is gone. One thing to know: photo apps that sort pictures by the date they were taken may fall back to the file date for a cleaned copy, since the original date is part of the removed metadata.