Remove EXIF Data and GPS Location from Photos
See and strip the GPS location, camera details and other metadata hidden in photos. Everything runs locally with zero file uploads.
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Drop photos to see and remove their metadata
JPEG, PNG and WebP, as many as you like. You can also paste a photo. Nothing leaves your device.
See what your photos give away, then remove it
Most photos carry far more than the picture. A phone writes the exact GPS position it was taken at, the date and time to the second, the camera or phone model and often its serial number, the editing app and sometimes your name. This EXIF remover shows you all of it, flags the photos that reveal a location, and strips the metadata without re-encoding the image — so quality is untouched and the pixels stay bit-for-bit the same. It works on JPEG, PNG and WebP, one photo or a whole folder, and nothing is uploaded: the files are read and cleaned on your device.
How to remove EXIF data from a photo
- Drop one or more photos on the page, choose them, or paste one with Ctrl/⌘ + V. Each is read at once, and photos that record a GPS location are marked in red.
- Open Show metadata to see every field: coordinates with a map link, camera and lens, dates, software and the raw blocks the file contains.
- Leave Keep orientation and Keep colour profile on unless you have a reason not to — neither reveals anything about you, and both keep the photo looking right.
- Press Remove metadata, then download each photo or every cleaned photo together as a ZIP. The file names stay the same.
What metadata is hidden in a photo
- GPS location
- Latitude, longitude and often altitude and direction, accurate to a few metres. Shared on a forum or a marketplace, it can point to your home.
- Date and time
- When the photo was taken, digitised and last changed, often with the time zone.
- Camera and software
- Make, model, lens, body serial number, the app that edited the photo and, on some cameras, the owner's name or copyright line.
- XMP and IPTC
- Editing history, ratings, keywords, captions and author details written by Lightroom, Photoshop and photo libraries.
- Thumbnails and trailers
- A small preview of the original image, and on many phones whole extra images appended after the photo — depth maps and HDR gain maps — each with metadata of its own.
Lossless: the image itself is never touched
A JPEG, PNG or WebP file is a sequence of blocks, and metadata lives in blocks of its own. The remover copies every image block across byte for byte and leaves the metadata blocks behind, so there is no decoding and no re-compression. That is the difference from tools that “remove EXIF” by redrawing the picture and saving it again, which costs quality every time.
Two things are kept by default. The orientation tag: phones store portrait photos sideways and record the turn, and dropping it would show your photo on its side — so a fresh, minimal EXIF block holding only that one number is written instead. And the colour profile, which tells a screen how to show the colours; without it, photos from recent phones look flat. Turn either off for a file with nothing in it but the picture.
After cleaning, the file is read again and what remains is listed, so you can see the result rather than take it on trust.
When to remove EXIF data
- Before posting photos on forums, marketplaces, classified ads or dating sites, many of which keep the original file.
- Before emailing or sending photos as files, which keeps metadata intact, unlike most chat apps that recompress images.
- Before publishing images on your own website or blog, where every visitor can download the original.
- For journalism, activism or anyone who needs a photo not to reveal where, when or with what device it was taken.
- To shave a few kilobytes off images for the web. For bigger savings, resize or re-encode them with the image resizer or the image converter, which drop metadata as well.
Formats and limits
JPEG, PNG and WebP are supported, including progressive JPEGs and animated PNG and WebP. HEIC, AVIF, TIFF and GIF are not cleaned yet; convert a HEIC photo to JPEG first, or share it from your phone with location turned off. There is no file count or size limit beyond your device's memory, and photos are processed one at a time so a large batch stays light.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I remove the location from a photo?
- Drop the photo here and press Remove metadata. The GPS coordinates are removed along with the rest of the EXIF data, and the cleaned photo downloads under the same name.
- How can I check if a photo has a GPS location?
- Drop it on the page. Photos that record a location get a red GPS location badge, and Show metadata lists the coordinates with a link to see the spot on a map.
- Does removing EXIF data reduce image quality?
- No. The image data is copied unchanged and only the metadata blocks are left out, so the picture is bit-for-bit identical. Nothing is re-compressed.
- Why does my photo appear rotated after removing EXIF elsewhere?
- Phones save portrait photos sideways and store the rotation in EXIF. Tools that delete everything lose that, so the photo turns on its side. Here Keep orientation writes back only the rotation, which reveals nothing about you.
- Do WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook remove EXIF data?
- Most social networks and chat apps strip location data from the copy they show others, but they may keep the original on their servers, and sending a photo as a file or document keeps the metadata. Cleaning photos yourself first means it never leaves your device.
- Can I remove metadata from many photos at once?
- Yes. Drop as many photos as you like, press Remove metadata once and download them all as a ZIP.
- Are my photos uploaded?
- No. The photos are read and cleaned in your browser by a WebAssembly module, and nothing is sent to a server. The map link only opens OpenStreetMap if you click it.
- Can I remove EXIF data from HEIC photos?
- Not yet. JPEG, PNG and WebP are supported. On an iPhone, set the camera to Most Compatible to save JPEGs, or turn off location in the share sheet's Options before sending a photo.