Remove EXIF Data from Photos
See where a photo was taken, then take that out.
Drop photos to clean
The panel lists what each photo carries — location, date, phone — before it is removed.
Guide: What a photo says about you3 min read
What a photo says about you
Every phone photo carries a block of information that is not in the picture: the make and model of the phone, the exact date and time, the camera settings and, almost always, the GPS coordinates of where it was taken. The photo of the room in a rental listing says where the house is; the photo of a child at the playground says which playground. Drop a photo here and the panel shows what it carries before anything else — the location first.
Removed without losing quality
For JPG, PNG and WebP kept in the same format, the removal happens on the file's bytes: the metadata blocks are cut out and the rest is copied as it was, without decoding the picture. The pixels are exactly the same. The extra images some phones attach to the end of a file, such as depth maps, go too. Formats like HEIC are saved as a new JPG, which does redraw the photo.
Two things stay on purpose: the orientation, because many photos are stored sideways and would appear on their side without it, and the colour profile, which changes how colours display and says nothing about anyone.
Where it matters
Large social networks usually strip metadata from what other people download, but email, messaging apps sending a file, cloud links, marketplaces and forums often deliver the file untouched. It is worth cleaning a photo before listing a home or an item, before sending pictures to strangers and before publishing anything taken at home.
After cleaning
To post it, the image compressor makes the photo light, and watermark image signs it. For a document, the PDF metadata remover does the same job with author and software.
Nothing is uploaded
Sending a photo to a server to remove its location would defeat the purpose. Here the file is read and rewritten in this tab, by code written for it, and the page works with the connection off.
Frequently asked questions
What is EXIF data?
Information a camera or phone writes inside the photo file: the make and model, the date and time, the exposure — and on most phones the GPS coordinates of where it was taken, accurate to a few metres. It travels with the file to everyone it is sent to.
Does removing it lower the photo's quality?
Not for JPG, PNG or WebP kept in the same format. The metadata is cut out of the file byte by byte and the picture itself is never decoded, so the pixels are exactly the ones you started with. Other formats, like HEIC, are saved as a new JPG, which does re-encode.
Will my photo turn sideways?
No. The orientation tag is the one piece kept, because many photos are stored sideways and only that tag tells viewers to turn them upright. It says nothing about you.
Don't social networks remove EXIF anyway?
Most large ones strip it from what other people download, but you are still handing them the original with the location. Email, messaging apps sending as a file, cloud links, marketplaces and forums often pass it on untouched.
Is my photo uploaded to read the metadata?
No. The file is read in this tab by code written for it, and nothing is sent anywhere — which is rather the point of a tool about privacy. The page works with the connection off.