EXIF Remover - Strip Metadata and GPS Data From Your Photos

Remove the camera, lens, serial numbers, timestamps and GPS coordinates hidden inside your photos, without touching the picture itself. The metadata is cut out of the file container and the compressed image data is copied across untouched, so the pixels come out byte for byte identical and nothing is re-encoded.

Every cleaned file is checked afterwards by re-reading the bytes that were written, and a file that fails that check is never offered for download. You can confirm the result yourself in the EXIF viewer, before and after.

Drag & Drop your photos here

Import from your computer, a public URL, Google Drive, or Dropbox.

JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF - up to 100 MB per file. HEIC and AVIF are read but cannot be cleaned, see the note below.

🔒 100% processed on your device ⚡ No upload, no network calls 🗑 Files are never stored on a server

Options

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Orientation

EXIF Orientation is what tells a viewer to rotate a phone photo upright. Strip it from a portrait shot and the photo displays sideways in half the apps that open it, so Keep is the default.

Keep writes a single replacement tag holding the rotation and nothing else. No make, no model, no dates, no GPS, no serial numbers. Everything identifying is still gone.

Colour profile

An ICC profile is not identifying. Removing one from a Display P3 iPhone photo makes the colours visibly shift, usually toward flat and dull. Remove it only if you want the smallest possible file and accept that cost.

Nothing is re-encoded

The compressed image data is copied across untouched and the container is rebuilt around it. There is no canvas anywhere in this tool, so your picture cannot lose quality.

Metadata is removed from the file container. Nothing is re-encoded, so the picture quality is untouched and the pixels are byte for byte identical to the file you started with.

Removing metadata does not make a photo anonymous. Whatever is visible in the picture is still visible: faces, street signs, a screen, a document, a number plate. Check the picture, not just the file. Forensic analysis can also still narrow down a camera model from JPEG quantisation tables and from sensor noise patterns in the pixels themselves. This tool removes recorded metadata, not physics.

EXIF Orientation is the one tag worth keeping, because without it a portrait photo can display sideways. Keep orientation is the default for that reason. Removing the colour profile shifts colours on wide gamut photos.

HEIC and AVIF cannot be cleaned safely without rebuilding the container, so this tool refuses rather than risking a subtly broken file. Multi-page TIFF is written out as a single page. GIF has no EXIF container, but comment and application blocks are stripped where present.

Uploading the cleaned photo somewhere may attach new metadata at the other end. This tool controls the file you download, and nothing after that.

Everything is processed locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to our servers.

This EXIF remover strips the camera model, the lens, the body and lens serial numbers, the timestamps and the GPS coordinates out of a photo, and leaves the picture completely untouched. It does that by rewriting the file container and copying the compressed image data across as one block, so the pixels come out byte for byte identical to the file you started with. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is re-encoded. It belongs to the image metadata tools group, alongside the EXIF viewer that shows you what is in a file, the DPI checker for print resolution, and the image info reader.

Almost every other metadata remover on the web draws your photo onto a canvas and saves it again. That works, and it quietly costs you a generation of image quality, your colour profile and often a chunk of file size in either direction. This one does container surgery instead, then proves the result: every cleaned file is re-read with the viewer's own parser before a download link appears, and a file that fails that check is never offered. Check any photo before and after in the EXIF viewer if you want to see it for yourself. HEIC and AVIF are the honest exception and are refused rather than risked, so convert those with HEIC to JPG first. Everything sits beside the rest of the image tools, including the compression tools and the government photo tools.

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No Re-encoding, Ever

The container is rebuilt around your compressed image data rather than the picture being redrawn. There is no canvas in the output path, so quality cannot drop.

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Every File Is Verified

Each output is re-read with the EXIF viewer's parser before you can download it. If a single tag survived, or the file will not parse, no download link appears.

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Orientation Kept by Default

Strip everything from a portrait phone photo and it displays sideways. Keep writes back one rotation tag and nothing else, so identifying data is still gone.

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It Shows You What Was There

Before you press anything, the tool names what the photo is exposing: GPS coordinates, serial numbers, owner name, camera and date. Then it removes them.

How to Remove EXIF Data From a Photo

Four steps. The tool reads what is in your file the moment it arrives, so you can see what you are about to delete before you delete it.

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1. Add Your Photos

Drag them in, browse, or import from a URL, Google Drive or Dropbox. Several at once is fine and each is handled separately.

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2. See What Is In There

Each file is read on arrival and the result names the GPS coordinates, serial numbers and dates it found, before anything is written.

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3. Choose Two Things

Keep the orientation tag or remove absolutely everything, and keep or drop the colour profile. Both default to keep, for good reasons.

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4. Clean and Download

Press Remove Metadata. Each file is rewritten, verified, then offered individually or as a ZIP of the whole batch.

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What the EXIF Remover Strips, Format by Format

There is no before-and-after picture here, and that is the whole point: the output is pixel identical to the input, so a slider would show you the same photograph twice. What actually differs is which metadata blocks come out of each container and what stays behind to keep the file valid. This is read from the shipped code, not from a specification.

Format	What gets removed	Method	Pixels preserved	What is kept	Outcome
JPEG	APP1 EXIF, APP1 XMP, APP13 IPTC, APP12, COM	Marker rewrite	Yes, identical	JFIF density, SOF, DHT, DQT	Cleaned losslessly. ICC kept unless you drop it
PNG	eXIf, tEXt, iTXt, zTXt, tIME, sPLT, hIST	Chunk rewrite	Yes, identical	IHDR, PLTE, tRNS, IDAT, pHYs, APNG frames	Cleaned losslessly. Animated PNG survives intact
WebP	EXIF chunk, XMP chunk	RIFF rewrite	Yes, identical	VP8, VP8L, ALPH, ANIM, ANMF	Cleaned losslessly. RIFF size and VP8X flags corrected
TIFF	ExifIFD, GPSIFD, Make, Model, XMP, IPTC	IFD rebuild	Yes, strips copied	Structural tags only, offsets rewritten	Cleaned. Multi-page is written out as a single page
GIF	Comment and application extension blocks	Block rewrite	Yes, identical	Frames, palettes, Netscape loop block	No EXIF container. Comment blocks stripped if present
HEIC, AVIF, BMP	HEIC and AVIF: an Exif item inside the container	Refused, or nothing to do	Untouched	Read only, never written	HEIC and AVIF refused rather than risked. BMP has nothing to remove

"Pixels preserved" is not a claim, it is an assertion the tool runs on itself. For JPEG it compares the entropy-coded scan in the output against the input, and for PNG it compares the concatenated image data. A mismatch means no download link. If you want to confirm the metadata really is gone, read the cleaned file in the EXIF viewer, and for the resolution tags specifically use the DPI checker.

EXIF Remover: Take the Data Out and Leave the Photograph Alone

A photo carries a second document inside it. Camera and lens, shutter and aperture, the firmware version, the body serial number, the exact second the shutter fired, and on almost every phone, the latitude and longitude of where you were standing. Removing that record is easy. Removing it without quietly damaging the picture is the part most tools get wrong, and it is the whole design of this one.

The common approach is to draw the image onto a canvas and export it again. Metadata does not survive a canvas, so it works, and it also re-encodes the picture: a second generation of JPEG artefacts, the colour profile gone, the file size moved in an unpredictable direction, and a photograph that is no longer the one you uploaded. This tool never touches a canvas in the output path. It walks the container, drops the metadata segments, and copies the compressed image data across as a single block, so the pixels are byte for byte what they were. Then it re-reads its own output with the parser from the EXIF viewer and refuses to offer a download if anything survived.

Why it matters is simple enough. The field worth worrying about is not the camera model, it is the GPS pair, because a phone records your position to a handful of metres and on a photo taken at home that is your front door. Marketplace listings, rental adverts and community posts are where that gets shared by accident every single day. The EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense glossary entry on metadata makes the general point well: metadata often reveals more than the content it describes, and deserves protecting just as carefully. If you want to look before you delete, read the file in the EXIF viewer first, or check the whole image metadata tools group.

⚖️How This Compares to the Other Ways to Strip Metadata

Method	Keeps image quality	What it costs you
This EXIF remover	Yes	Nothing. Container rewrite, verified, no upload.
Canvas-based online removers	No	Re-encodes the photo and usually drops the colour profile.
Windows Remove Properties	Yes	JPEG only in practice, and it silently leaves XMP behind.
Screenshotting the photo	No	Loses resolution and re-encodes. Works, crudely.
Sending it through a messaging app	No	Strips metadata and compresses the picture hard as well.
Desktop ExifTool command line	Yes	The most complete option, plus an install and a terminal.
Re-saving in an image editor	Depends	Depends entirely on which export settings you happen to use.

Two rows deserve a note. Sending a photo through a messaging app does genuinely strip the metadata, which is why almost everything you receive that way arrives blank, but it also compresses the picture heavily, so you are trading privacy for quality without being asked. And ExifTool remains the most thorough option in existence, decoding vendor MakerNote blocks that no browser tool can touch. What a browser gives you instead is that a geotagged photo never leaves your device, and no install. If you want the picture smaller rather than cleaner, that is compress JPG or the image resizer.

🛡️When You Should Strip a Photo Before Sharing It

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Marketplace and Classified Listings

Photos of a scooter, a sofa or a flat are usually taken where those things live. The coordinates go up with the listing unless you take them out, and the listing is public by definition.

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Rental and Property Adverts

An address you intended to share only with serious enquirers is already in the file. Strip it and let people ask, rather than handing the exact location to everyone who scrolls past.

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Portfolios and Client Delivery

Camera body and lens serial numbers travel with your work, and so do client shoot locations. Clean exports keep both out of a public gallery without touching image quality.

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Anything Involving Children or Home

Photos taken at home or at a school carry that location. Removing it before a photo reaches a group chat, a forum or a public profile costs nothing and closes an obvious gap.

🔓When You Should Leave the Metadata Alone

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Your Own Archive

Date taken and camera settings are how photo libraries sort, search and group your pictures. Strip your master copies and you lose that permanently. Clean the copy you are sharing instead.

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Evidence and Insurance Claims

A damage photo submitted with its original timestamp is worth more than one without. It is not proof, but removing it removes the only supporting detail the file had.

Copyright and Credit Fields

IPTC byline, credit and copyright fields are how a photograph carries your name across the internet. Removing everything removes those too, so consider what you are giving up.

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Colour-Critical Work

The ICC profile is not identifying and dropping it shifts colours on wide gamut photos, usually toward flat. Keep is the default here for exactly that reason.

✨What This Remover Does That Others Do Not

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Pixel Identity Is Asserted

For JPEG the tool compares the entropy-coded scan in its own output against the input, and for PNG the image data chunks. Not logged, asserted. A mismatch means no download.

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Removal Is Proven, Not Promised

Each output is parsed again for EXIF entries, GPS entries, XMP, IPTC, PNG text and comments, and checked that it is still a valid file of the same format. Four checks, every file.

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The Orientation Trap Is Handled

Most removers strip the rotation tag with everything else and hand back a photo that displays sideways. Keep mode writes back one tag holding rotation and nothing else.

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It Refuses What It Cannot Do Safely

HEIC and AVIF need the container's internal offsets rebuilt. Getting that slightly wrong makes a file that opens in one viewer and breaks in another, so the tool says no.

✅What the EXIF Remover Actually Does

✓Removes EXIF, XMP, IPTC, JPEG comments, Photoshop resource blocks and PNG text chunks, by rewriting the container rather than redrawing the picture.
✓Cleans JPEG by marker rewrite, PNG by chunk rewrite, WebP by RIFF rewrite with the size field and VP8X flags corrected, and TIFF by rebuilding IFD0 with the strip offsets fixed.
✓Strips GIF comment and application extension blocks, since GIF has no EXIF container but can still carry text.
✓Keeps the EXIF orientation tag by default, written back as a single entry with no make, model, date, GPS or serial number beside it.
✓Keeps the ICC colour profile by default, with a one-tap option to drop it for the smallest possible file.
✓Names what it found before you press anything: GPS coordinates, body and lens serial numbers, owner name, camera, date and software.
✓Verifies every output by re-parsing it, and withholds the download link when any assertion fails rather than handing back an unchecked file.
✓Reports "nothing to remove" and offers no file when a photo is already clean, instead of writing an identical copy and calling it work.
✓Handles batches, with a hand-written ZIP of the finished files and no third party library anywhere on the page.
✓Runs entirely in your browser with no network activity after the page loads, so a geotagged photo is never transmitted.

🔢How to Use the EXIF Remover

Add the photos you are about to share Drag them in or import from a URL, Google Drive or Dropbox. JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF and GIF are cleaned. HEIC and AVIF are read and then honestly refused, with a link to convert them first.
Look at what the tool found Each file is read on arrival and the result lists what it is exposing, naming GPS coordinates and serial numbers specifically rather than giving you a tag count that means nothing.
Set two options, or leave both alone Orientation defaults to Keep so portrait photos do not end up sideways. Colour profile defaults to Keep so wide gamut colours do not shift. Change either only if you know you want to.
Remove, check the verification line, download Press Remove Metadata. Each row shows the bytes removed and confirms zero tags remain. Download files one at a time or take the whole batch as a ZIP.

⚙️Technical Notes and Honest Limits

The most important limit is the one nobody wants to say out loud: removing metadata does not make a photograph anonymous. Everything visible in the picture is still visible, including faces, street signs, a screen, a document or a number plate, and forensic analysis can still narrow a camera model down from JPEG quantisation tables and from sensor noise patterns in the pixels themselves. This tool removes recorded metadata. It does not remove physics, and any tool claiming otherwise is overselling.

🔄 Why keeping the orientation tag is the safer default

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Cameras rarely rotate pixels. They set a tag telling the viewer which way up the photo goes, and most phone photos shot in portrait rely on it. Strip that tag along with everything else and the picture appears sideways in any app that reads it. Keep mode writes back a minimal replacement holding the orientation value and nothing else at all, so the camera, the dates, the GPS and the serial numbers are still gone. If you choose to remove everything and a photo was shot rotated, the tool warns you on that row rather than letting you find out later.

⛔ Why HEIC and AVIF are refused instead of attempted

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In those formats the metadata sits in an item addressed by absolute offsets recorded elsewhere in the container. Removing it means editing the item table and correcting every offset that follows, and a small mistake produces a file that opens correctly in one viewer and fails in another, which you would not discover until it mattered. Refusing is the honest answer. The practical route is to convert the file with HEIC to JPG, which drops the metadata as part of the conversion, then run the result through this tool.

🗎 What happens to TIFF, and why it is different

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In TIFF the metadata and the image data share one tag table, and the pixel data is addressed by absolute file offsets, so a tag cannot simply be deleted in place. The file is rebuilt: a fresh header, one tag table holding only the structural tags a decoder needs, then the image strips copied across with their offsets corrected. Everything identifying goes, including the Exif and GPS sub-tables, the make, the model, the software and the timestamps. One consequence to know about is that a multi-page TIFF is written out as a single page, and the tool says so on that row rather than losing pages silently.

🗘️ Why the file size barely changes, and when it does

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Metadata is small. On a typical phone photo the whole block is a few tens of kilobytes against several megabytes of picture, so a cleaned file is usually a fraction of a percent smaller. That is the correct result and it is the proof that nothing was re-encoded: a tool that hands back a file dramatically smaller has compressed your photograph, not just cleaned it. If you actually want a smaller file, that is a separate job for compress JPG, compress PNG or the resize to KB tool.

💡Real Situations This Page Handles

A seller in Jaipur lists a scooter and the photos were taken outside the house. The tool names the coordinates it found, strips them, and the listing goes up with the pictures at full quality rather than screenshots.

A photographer delivers a gallery and does not want the lens and body serial numbers travelling with every frame. A batch runs through in one pass and downloads as a ZIP, with the colour profile kept intact.

Someone strips a portrait photo with everything removed and it appears sideways on the site they uploaded it to. Switching back to Keep orientation and re-running fixes it without touching the picture.

A HEIC straight off an iPhone is refused, so it goes through HEIC to JPG first and the resulting JPEG cleans normally, verified the same way as any other file.

FAQs - EXIF Remover

Does removing EXIF data reduce my photo's quality?

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Not with this tool. The metadata is cut out of the file container and the compressed image data is copied across as one untouched block, so the pixels are byte for byte what they were. Most online removers instead draw your photo onto a canvas and save it again, which re-encodes the picture and quietly costs you a generation of quality. The tool asserts pixel identity on every file it writes.

How do I remove GPS location data from a photo?

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Drop the photo in and the tool reads it immediately, naming the coordinates it found before anything is written. Press Remove Metadata and the whole EXIF block, including the GPS sub-table, is taken out. The cleaned file is then re-read to confirm zero GPS entries remain, and no download link appears unless that check passes. Nothing is uploaded at any point.

Will my photo appear sideways after the metadata is removed?

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Not on the default setting. Cameras rarely rotate pixels; they set an orientation tag telling the viewer which way up the photo goes. Keep mode writes that single tag back and nothing else, so the camera, dates, GPS and serial numbers are still gone but the photo displays upright. Choose Remove everything instead and the tool warns you on any row where the original was shot rotated.

Why does the file size barely change after cleaning?

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Because metadata is small. On a typical phone photo the entire block is a few tens of kilobytes against several megabytes of picture, so a cleaned file is usually a fraction of a percent smaller. That is the correct result and it is your proof that nothing was re-encoded. A tool that hands back a dramatically smaller file has compressed your photograph, not simply cleaned it.

Which formats can this EXIF remover clean?

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JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF and GIF are all cleaned by rewriting the container, with no re-encoding. BMP has no metadata container, so the tool reports there is nothing to remove rather than writing a pointless copy. HEIC and AVIF are read but deliberately refused, because removing their metadata safely means rebuilding internal container offsets.

Why will it not clean my HEIC or AVIF photo?

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In those formats the metadata sits in an item addressed by absolute offsets stored elsewhere in the container. Editing it means correcting every offset that follows, and a small mistake produces a file that opens in one viewer and breaks in another, which you would not discover until it mattered. Convert the file with the HEIC to JPG tool first, which drops the metadata anyway, then clean the result here.

Does removing metadata make a photo anonymous?

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No, and any tool claiming otherwise is overselling. Removing the record deletes what the file says about itself. Everything visible in the picture is still visible: faces, street signs, a screen, a document, a number plate. Forensic analysis can also narrow down a camera model from compression tables and sensor noise in the pixels. Check the picture, not just the file.

How do I know the metadata is really gone?

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The tool checks its own work. Every output is re-read with the EXIF viewer's parser and tested for remaining EXIF entries, GPS entries, XMP, IPTC, PNG text and comments, and for whether the file is still valid in the same format. If any assertion fails, the row errors and no download link is offered. You can also confirm it yourself by opening the cleaned file in the EXIF viewer.

Should I remove the colour profile as well?

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Usually not, which is why Keep is the default. An ICC profile carries no identifying information, and removing one from a wide gamut photo shifts the colours visibly, generally toward flat and dull. The option exists for people who want the smallest possible file and accept that trade. If size is the real goal, a compression tool will save far more than a colour profile ever could.

Can I clean several photos at once?

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Yes. Add as many as you like, up to 100 MB each, and they are processed one after another with a separate result row for each. Download files individually or take the whole batch as a single ZIP, which is written by the tool itself with no third party library on the page. A file that fails verification is left out of the ZIP rather than quietly included.

Is it safe to use an online tool for photos with GPS data?

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It depends entirely on whether the photo leaves your device, and here it does not. The file is read and rewritten inside your browser and no copy is sent anywhere, which matters because a geotagged photo is the single worst file to hand to a server you do not control. After the page has loaded, the tool keeps working with no network connection at all.