Photo Metadata Remover
Drop in photos to see what they reveal — where they were taken, when, and on what camera — then download clean copies. The files stay on your device the whole time.
What photo metadata gives away
Most phone and camera photos carry EXIF data: the exact GPS coordinates where the photo was taken, the date and time to the second, the camera or phone model, lens, settings, and sometimes the owner’s name or the camera’s serial number. Editing apps add their own XMP notes, and many files hide a small preview thumbnail.
Some sites strip this when you upload, but many don’t: email attachments, cloud-shared links, forums, marketplaces and messaging apps that send “original quality” often pass it straight through.
How the cleaning works
The file is read in your browser and never uploaded. For JPEG, metadata segments (EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments, multi-picture data and anything appended after the image) are cut out and the compressed image data is copied byte-for-byte, so there is no quality loss. For PNG, text, time and eXIf chunks are dropped. For WebP, the EXIF and XMP chunks are removed and the header is fixed up.
The color profile is kept by default because it only describes colors and makes wide-gamut phone photos look right. Each cleaned file is parsed again to confirm nothing personal is left.
Questions
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No. Reading, displaying and removing the metadata all happen in this browser tab. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it still works.
Does removing EXIF reduce image quality?
Not for JPEG, PNG or WebP here: only the metadata is cut out and the image bytes are copied unchanged. The one exception is the optional “Bake in rotation” setting, which re-encodes sideways-shot JPEGs at high quality so they display upright without any tags.
Why would a photo turn sideways after removing EXIF?
Phones often save the pixels sideways and add an orientation tag telling viewers to rotate them. Remove the tag and some viewers show it sideways. The default here keeps only that one tag, which reveals nothing about you.
How do I stop my phone adding location to photos?
On iPhone: Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera → Never. On Android: open the Camera app’s settings and turn off “Location tags” (the name varies by maker). Existing photos still need cleaning.
Can it read HEIC photos from an iPhone?
Not yet. Share or export the photo as JPEG first (or set Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible), then clean it here.