Remove EXIF Data
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See what your photos reveal — then strip it, without uploading them.
- Drop your photos in — JPEG, PNG or WebP, several at once
- Read what was found, and check whether any of them carry coordinates
- Remove it, then download the cleaned files or a ZIP of all of them
About this tool
A photo taken on a phone carries far more than the picture. Alongside the pixels sit the camera make and model, the exact second the shutter opened, the software that last touched the file, and — unless location tagging has been turned off — the latitude and longitude to within a few metres. Post that photo of your living room and you have published your home address, and nothing in the picture tells you so. This shows you exactly what is in there first, with any coordinates called out separately rather than buried in a list, and then removes it. The work happens on the container, not the pixels: no decoding, no re-encoding, so the image that comes out is the same image with a segment taken out. Nothing is uploaded, which matters more here than on any other tool on this site, because every alternative asks you to hand a stranger's server the coordinates in order to have them taken out. Two things are kept on purpose. The orientation flag lives in EXIF, and removing it turns portrait photos sideways, so a minimal replacement is written containing nothing else. The colour profile is kept too, because dropping it visibly shifts the colours.
Frequently asked questions
What is actually hidden in my photos?
Typically the camera make and model, lens, exposure settings, the date and time to the second, the software that last saved the file, and often GPS coordinates. Some files also carry the owner's name and the camera's serial number. Everything found is listed before anything is changed.
Does removing the data reduce the image quality?
No. Nothing is decoded or re-compressed. The metadata lives in its own segment of the file, separate from the compressed pixels, and only that segment is removed. Saving a photo again through an image editor would strip the data too, but would also recompress the picture.
Why is my portrait photo not turned sideways afterwards?
Because the orientation flag is preserved by default. Orientation is part of EXIF, so a complete strip leaves phone photos lying on their side in every viewer that trusted it. A minimal replacement block is written containing the flag and nothing else.
Do social networks not remove this already?
Most of the large ones do strip location on upload, but not all of them, not on every upload path, and not when the file is sent by email or messaging app or uploaded to your own site. Removing it before it leaves your device is the only version that does not depend on someone else's policy.
Is the photo uploaded to check it?
No, and that is the point of this one. The file is read in your browser and rewritten there. Even the coordinates shown are not sent anywhere — the map is a plain link you can choose to follow, rather than an embedded map that would send the position to a third party to draw it.
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