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Remove Metadata

How to use

Removes hidden data from images, such as camera details, GPS location and editing history, to protect your privacy before sharing. Upload your image and it is cleaned automatically. Download the version with the metadata removed.

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Step 1 of 3: Upload

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Step 1 of 3 · Upload

Select an image to inspect & clean

Processed on your device

When to use this
  • Stripping GPS location data from a photo before posting it publicly on social media
  • Removing camera model and timestamp metadata from images before sharing them with strangers online
  • Protecting a source location by cleaning EXIF data from a journalist's photo before publication
  • Cleaning metadata from photos before uploading them to a platform that displays EXIF details publicly

Free and private. Everything runs on your own device, with no account and no uploads.

Photos taken on phones and cameras often embed EXIF metadata like GPS coordinates, device model, and timestamps, which can be a privacy risk before sharing online, and this tool strips that metadata while leaving the visible image untouched. Metadata removal is performed locally by re-encoding the image in your browser, so the stripped data never has a chance to leave your device in the first place.

EXIF data such as GPS location, camera model, timestamp, and other embedded fields are stripped from the image.

No, only the embedded metadata is removed; the visible pixel content is unchanged.

Yes, GPS coordinates embedded in EXIF data are one of the fields removed, which helps prevent location leaks when sharing photos publicly.

JPEG and TIFF files commonly carry EXIF metadata; PNG files typically carry little to none by comparison.

How it works
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    Upload the image

    Select the photo you want to clean of metadata.

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    Review detected metadata

    See what EXIF and other metadata fields were found, if shown.

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    Strip the metadata

    Run the removal process to produce a clean version of the image.

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    Download the cleaned file

    Save the image with metadata removed.

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Pro tips
  • ·Check for GPS metadata specifically before sharing photos taken on a phone, since location is the most sensitive field typically embedded
  • ·Run this on JPEG and TIFF files where it matters most, PNG files rarely carry meaningful EXIF data to begin with
  • ·Re-strip metadata after any edit made in another tool, since some editors re-add fields like software version or timestamp on save