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Remove EXIF data

Up to 100 files at once. Mixed formats are fine.

Removing EXIF data strips the camera, the timestamp and the coordinates out of a photograph while leaving the picture exactly as it was — the compressed image data is copied across untouched, so nothing is re-encoded and no quality is lost. Drop a file above and it happens inside your browser. You will see what was found before you remove it, and what is left afterwards.

What is actually in there

A JPEG from a phone or a camera carries a block called EXIF, and it is longer than most people expect. The make and model of the device. The lens, the focal length, the aperture, the shutter speed and the ISO. The date and time to the second, usually with the time zone. Often the serial number of the camera body, which ties every photograph that camera has ever taken to every other one.

And if location services were on when the shutter fired, the latitude and longitude to within a few metres — which is to say the address. Alongside EXIF there may be an XMP block written by an editor, carrying the author name and the software, and an IPTC block carrying a caption and a copyright line that somebody typed years ago and forgot about.

Why this does not re-compress the image

The obvious way to strip metadata is to decode the photograph to pixels and save it again — every converter does this by accident, because the new file simply has nowhere to put the old block. It works, and it costs you a generation of JPEG quality every time.

This page does not do that. A JPEG is a series of labelled segments followed by the compressed image data, and removing metadata means rewriting the list of segments and copying the image data across byte for byte. The picture that comes out is the picture that went in — identical, not equivalent. The file is smaller only because the metadata is gone.

The three things that are deliberately kept

Not everything in the front of a JPEG is about you. The colour profile — an ICC block — describes how the numbers in the file map to colours, and removing it visibly flattens the greens and reds of any photograph taken in a wide-gamut space. It says nothing about the photographer.

The JFIF block carries the pixel density, and the Adobe block states how the colour channels are arranged; a CMYK image without it decodes with its colours inverted. All three are kept. Everything that names a person, a place, a device or a time is removed.

PNG and WebP are not automatically safe

A common assumption is that only JPEGs carry metadata. They do not. A PNG can hold text chunks — where design tools write the author and the software — a timestamp, and a full EXIF block including coordinates. A WebP has dedicated EXIF and XMP chunks and a flag field announcing them.

Drop either here and the same thing happens: the metadata chunks are removed, the image data is copied, and the colour profile stays. The page is named for EXIF because that is what people search for, but the tool goes by what the file actually contains.

How to remove EXIF data from a photo

  1. Drop your photo onto this page, or click to choose one.
  2. Look at what was found — camera, date, coordinates, whatever is there.
  3. Remove it. The picture is copied untouched; only the metadata is rewritten.

Removing EXIF data: common questions

Does this reduce the image quality?
No, and not "barely" — not at all. The compressed image data is copied from the original file without being decoded, so the pixels are bit-for-bit identical. That is the difference between this and stripping metadata by re-saving the photograph, which quietly costs a generation of JPEG quality each time you do it.
Is my photo uploaded?
No — the file never leaves your device, and on this page more than any other that matters. Uploading a photograph to have its location removed defeats the request: the file with the coordinates in it has already gone. Everything here runs in your browser, you can check in the network tab, and it works with the network disconnected.
Can I keep the camera settings and remove only the location?
Yes — that is the second option in the settings. The GPS directory is erased and everything else in the EXIF block stays, so the exposure, the lens and the date survive. The coordinates are overwritten rather than merely hidden: emptying the directory would satisfy every reader and leave the numbers sitting in the file.
Does social media not strip this anyway?
Most large platforms do strip EXIF from what they display — which protects you from strangers and not from the platform, which read it first. And it does not apply to a photograph you email, upload to a marketplace listing, attach to a form, or put on your own website. Those keep everything.
How do I know it worked?
The page shows you. What was found is listed before the removal and the result is inspected again afterwards, so you can see the list go empty rather than take our word for it. If you want to check independently, any EXIF viewer will read the downloaded file.

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