Remove GPS location, camera info and all hidden metadata from your photos before sharing online. Protect your privacy.
Photos from phones contain exact GPS coordinates. Anyone can find where you live, work or took the photo.
EXIF data includes your camera model, phone brand, lens type and sometimes serial numbers.
Unlike other tools, we process everything in your browser. Your photos never leave your device.
Every time your phone or camera takes a photo, it doesn't just save the pixels — it also embeds a hidden block of metadata called EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) inside the image file. Most people never see this data, but it's there: camera model, exact date and time the photo was taken, exposure settings, lens used, whether the flash fired, and very often, the GPS coordinates of where you were standing when you took the picture.
For photographers, EXIF is genuinely useful. It lets you remember what settings worked for a particular shot, sort photos chronologically across devices, and prove provenance if questions ever arise. For the rest of us, EXIF is mostly a privacy leak waiting to happen.
The most concrete risk: GPS coordinates embedded in your phone photos pinpoint exactly where each photo was taken, often down to a few meters. When you post a "photo from my home" to a public forum or share an image on a marketplace listing, anyone who downloads it can extract the GPS coordinates and find your house. Same for photos of children, pets, valuables, anywhere you spend time. Most people have no idea this is happening, because their photo viewer doesn't show the metadata by default.
This tool strips EXIF and other embedded metadata from your images in one click. Nothing is uploaded — the cleanup happens in your browser — so the sensitive data never leaves your device on its way to being removed.
Drag and drop one or many photos into the upload area. JPG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC files all work. You can do a single image or batch through dozens at once.
By default, the tool removes all metadata. If you want to keep some EXIF (like camera settings for your photo records) while removing only sensitive fields (GPS, owner info), advanced options let you choose. For most users, "remove everything" is the right call.
You get a new image file, visually identical to the original, but with all the metadata stripped out. The original on your device stays untouched — only the downloaded copy is scrubbed.
For most browser-based tools, the "no upload" privacy angle is a nice-to-have. For an EXIF remover, it's the whole point. The reason you're using this tool is to prevent metadata leakage. If the tool uploads your photo to a server to strip the metadata, the unstripped version has already been on someone else's machine — exactly the thing you're trying to avoid. It's like using a service to delete your browsing history that requires you to first share your browsing history with them.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your image file is read by JavaScript locally, the metadata is stripped locally, and the cleaned image is downloaded back to your device. At no point is the original or the cleaned image transmitted anywhere. We can't see your photos because they never come to us. View the page source if you want to verify.
GPS coordinates. The biggest privacy leak. Most modern phones embed exact latitude and longitude (often to within 5 meters) in every photo unless you've explicitly turned location off in your camera settings. If you share a photo taken at home, in front of your kid's school, at your office, or at a specific business — anyone who downloads the photo can see where.
Date and time. Useful for organizing photos but can reveal patterns of behavior, when you're typically at certain locations, or contradict false statements (which is why EXIF is admissible evidence in court).
Device information. Camera make and model, lens type, sometimes serial number. Less sensitive than GPS but can fingerprint specific cameras, which matters if you're a journalist protecting sources or anyone in a sensitive situation.
Owner and authorship information. Some cameras let users embed their name, email, or copyright statement. This can quietly stick to images for years.
Thumbnail data. Some EXIF blocks contain a small thumbnail of the original image. If you edited the photo (cropped out something sensitive) but didn't strip EXIF, the thumbnail might still show the uncropped original.
Software history. Which application edited the photo, the version, sometimes a list of edit operations. Mostly harmless, occasionally revealing.
Always strip before: Posting photos publicly (social media, forums, marketplaces, dating apps); sharing on Reddit, Imgur, or any site with public URLs; sending to journalists, sources, or anyone in a sensitive professional context; selling items online with photos of your home; sharing photos of children with locations you'd rather not advertise.
Probably strip before: Sending photos via email to people you don't trust completely; uploading to most cloud services (the service knows but the metadata isn't separately broadcast); sharing in group chats with people you haven't fully vetted.
Generally fine to leave EXIF: Your personal photo archive (you want the data for your own use); sharing within your trusted family or close friends; professional photography portfolios where camera info adds credibility; submitting to photo contests where they may want camera metadata.
This isn't paranoia. There are well-documented cases of people being doxxed (having their home address publicly revealed) through EXIF data they didn't know was in photos they posted. There was the high-profile case of John McAfee being located by Vice magazine when he was on the run — they used GPS coordinates in a photo Vice itself published. There are routine cases of stalkers finding victims through photo metadata on social media. There are cases of children's locations being revealed through photos parents posted in good faith.
Most social media platforms now strip EXIF automatically on upload — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter all do this. But that's not universal. Many forum platforms, image hosts, smaller social sites, and direct file shares preserve EXIF intact. The safe assumption: any photo you can't verify will be EXIF-stripped by the platform should be stripped by you first.
Stripping after the fact works, but turning off location capture in your camera is even better. On iPhone: Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera → set to Never (or While Using if you sometimes want location). On Android: open Camera, tap settings (gear icon), toggle off "Location tags" or "Save location." This stops GPS data from being embedded in new photos going forward. Existing photos still have their EXIF — those need to be stripped using a tool like this one.
For sharing photos via messaging apps: most major messaging apps (WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram) strip EXIF on send. iMessage does not. SMS/MMS preserves EXIF. AirDrop preserves it. Cloud services like iCloud Photos, Google Photos, OneDrive preserve EXIF in the stored file — sharing a link from these services gives full access to the metadata.
It removes ALL metadata including EXIF, IPTC, XMP, GPS coordinates, camera settings, dates, software info, thumbnails and any other embedded data.
The image is re-encoded at maximum quality (0.98 for JPEG). There may be negligible quality difference that is invisible to the human eye.
Yes! Select multiple files when uploading. All will be processed and you can download them all at once.
Some do (like Twitter and Facebook strip GPS), but not all platforms remove everything. It's safest to strip metadata yourself before uploading anywhere.
No. EXIF is metadata stored alongside the image pixels but isn't part of the visual content. Stripping it leaves the photo looking identical.
Those platforms strip EXIF automatically on upload, so for posts going only to those sites, you're probably fine. But if you share the same photo elsewhere — email, Reddit, smaller forums, file-sharing sites — strip it manually first.
Yes. EXIF gets the most attention, but images can also contain IPTC metadata (used by news organizations) and XMP (used by Adobe products). Our tool removes all of them by default.
Yes — try opening the downloaded image in any EXIF viewer (online tools or your OS's photo properties). The metadata fields should be empty or completely missing.
This tool handles image files. PDFs and other documents have their own metadata systems. If you need to clean a PDF, our PDF editor preserves only essential structure and discards most authoring metadata.