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Remove metadata from an image

Strip EXIF, including GPS coordinates, camera serial numbers and the exact time the photo was taken.

  • Free, no signup
  • No upload — runs on your device
  • No watermark
  • Unlimited use

Remove Image Metadata

Processed locally
Drop a photo here

JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP

What gets removed: GPS coordinates, capture date and time, camera make and model, lens and exposure settings, editing software, and any embedded thumbnail.

The location is precise enough to identify a room

A photo taken on a modern phone with location services enabled embeds latitude and longitude to roughly five decimal places — about one metre. It also records the camera model, its serial number in some cases, the lens, the exposure settings, the software version, and a timestamp accurate to the second. Sold a sofa online? The listing photo taken in your living room contains your home address to within a metre.

Most large social networks strip EXIF on upload. Marketplace listings, forums, email attachments, cloud file shares and messaging apps in "send as file" mode frequently do not. The habit worth forming is stripping before sharing, not trusting the platform to do it.

The mechanism here is simple and complete: the image is decoded to raw pixels, drawn onto a canvas, and re-encoded. A canvas has no metadata to carry, so nothing survives. It also means the file is re-compressed, at 94% quality — a deliberate choice, high enough to be invisible.

How it works

  1. Drop in the photo
  2. Click Strip metadata
  3. Download the clean copy — GPS, timestamps and camera details are gone
Why nothing uploads. Every operation on this page happens inside your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Your file is read into memory, processed, and offered back as a download. It is never transmitted. Disconnect from the internet after this page loads and the tool keeps working.

Frequently asked questions

What information is actually in a photo's EXIF data?
GPS coordinates accurate to about a metre, the date and time to the second, the camera make, model and sometimes serial number, lens details, exposure settings, and the software used to edit it.
Do social media sites remove EXIF for me?
Most large networks do on upload. Marketplace listings, forums, email attachments and file-sharing links often do not. Strip it yourself rather than assuming.
Does removing metadata change how the photo looks?
It is re-encoded as JPEG at 94% quality, which is visually indistinguishable from the original. The pixels are otherwise identical.
Will this remove a watermark or anything drawn on the image?
No. Metadata lives alongside the pixels, not in them. Anything visible in the photograph stays visible.
Is the photo uploaded anywhere to be cleaned?
No — which is the point. A tool that uploads your photo to strip its location has already learned your location. This one runs entirely in your browser.

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