EXIF / Metadata Remover
See what your photo is telling people — then strip it, in your browser.
Your image
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The file is read twice. First a small parser walks the JPEG APP1 segment or the PNG text chunks and lists what it finds: camera make and model, the software that touched it, the exact second it was taken, serial numbers where the camera writes them, and GPS coordinates where the phone recorded them. Then the image is decoded to pixels, drawn to a canvas and encoded again — which produces a file built from pixels alone, so nothing the parser named, and nothing it did not, can survive. The EXIF rotation is applied before drawing, so the clean copy is the right way up.
What the results mean
- Location data
- GPS coordinates written by the camera, usually accurate to a few metres. This is the field worth checking before sharing a photo taken at home.
- Camera model and serial
- Ties a set of photos to one device. Individually harmless; across a set of posts it links them to the same person.
- Date taken
- The original capture time to the second, which survives copying and re-saving and often contradicts the story a file is being used to tell.
- Software
- The editor that last wrote the file. Present on most edited images and a strong hint that an image is not straight from a camera.
Common problems and fixes
- It says no metadata was found
- The file may already have been stripped — most social platforms remove it after they have read it. The clean copy is re-encoded either way, so it carries nothing forward.
- The cleaned file is bigger than the original
- Choose JPEG output rather than PNG. PNG is lossless and larger; JPEG re-compresses and lands close to the original size.
- I want to keep the copyright field
- This tool removes everything — that is the point of it. To keep selected fields you need a metadata editor rather than a remover.
Frequently asked questions
What is EXIF data and why does it matter?
EXIF is the block of information a camera writes into a photo alongside the pixels: the model, the settings, the exact time, and — on a phone with location services on — the coordinates where it was taken. It is invisible in every image viewer and travels with the file. Photos posted to forums, sent by email or shared over messaging apps that preserve the original have given away home addresses that way.
Do social networks remove EXIF data?
Most strip it from the copy they publish — after they have read and kept it. That protects you from other users and not at all from the platform. It also does nothing for the file you send directly by email, messaging or file transfer, which arrives with everything intact.
How do I remove GPS location from a photo?
Load it above. If the photo carries coordinates, the result says so before anything else, and the download is a copy re-encoded from pixels alone with no location, timestamp or device information. Do it before sharing rather than after — a file that has already been sent cannot be recalled.
Does removing metadata change the image?
The visible pixels stay the same. Saving as JPEG re-compresses them, which is imperceptible once but adds up if repeated; PNG output avoids it entirely at the cost of a larger file.