Remove Metadata from Photos

Strip the GPS location, the camera details and the author's name out of a photo before you post it, without touching a single pixel.

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.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp, .tif, .tiff, .avif · up to 100 MB

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How to Remove Metadata

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Drop your photos
JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF and AVIF, up to fifty files at once. Everything happens inside this browser tab, so nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored.
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Review what we found
Before anything is removed you see the actual values: the camera, the date the shutter opened, and the coordinates written into the file. That is what you are about to delete.
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Download the clean file
The result keeps the same format and the same picture, and comes back a little smaller, by exactly the size of what was cut out. Several files arrive as one ZIP.

A photo can say where you live

Every phone writes GPS coordinates into a picture by default, accurate to a few metres. A photo of a pet on a sofa, a car in a driveway or a bike in a hallway carries the exact spot it was taken, and anyone who receives the original file can read it in seconds with a tool no harder to use than this one. Some platforms strip that data on upload, but messengers frequently do not, cloud shares hand over the untouched original, and an email attachment is the original by definition. Removing the location before the file leaves your device is the only step that works regardless of where it ends up.

Not a single pixel is re-encoded

A JPEG is a chain of marked segments, a PNG a chain of chunks, a WebP a chain of RIFF blocks. Metadata lives in its own segments, entirely separate from the compressed image data, so removing it is a matter of cutting those segments out and leaving the rest of the bytes exactly where they were. That is why the picture is not merely visually identical but bit-for-bit identical, and why the file shrinks by precisely the number of bytes removed and not one more. Re-saving a JPEG in an editor to lose its metadata, by contrast, decodes and recompresses everything and costs real quality every time.

The colour profile is not personal data

An ICC profile describes how the colours in the file should be interpreted, and dropping it can visibly shift how a picture renders in some viewers. It says nothing about you, your camera or where you were, so it is kept by default and separated from the EXIF, IPTC and XMP blocks that do identify you. If you want a file with nothing at all in it, one toggle removes the profile too.

Removal you can check yourself

After the cut, the result is parsed again from scratch by the same code that powers our metadata viewer, and the file is only handed back if that second read finds nothing in the categories you asked to clear. If anything survives, you get an error rather than a file with a false promise attached to it. You are welcome to verify independently: drop the cleaned photo into the Image Metadata viewer, or open it in any EXIF tool you already trust.

Nothing is uploaded, and the proof is in the file

Your photo is read, cut and re-checked inside this browser tab; no byte of it reaches a server, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind. The values shown before removal come out of your own file, and the cleaned result is verified by re-reading it, so the claim that the location is gone is something you can confirm, not something you have to take on trust.

Frequently asked questions

Why should I remove the GPS location before posting a photo?

Because the coordinates are precise enough to identify a home, a school or a workplace, and they travel with the file. Platforms that strip them protect only the copy they host; the original you send by messenger, email or cloud link still carries everything.

Does removing metadata reduce image quality?

No. For JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF the image data is not decoded at all. Only the metadata segments are cut out, so the remaining bytes are untouched. The single exception is AVIF, which has to be re-encoded, and the result is marked as recompressed so you know.

How is this different from just re-saving the photo?

Re-saving decodes and recompresses the whole image, which loses quality and does not reliably clear every block; many editors carry XMP straight through. This works on the file structure instead, cuts the metadata segments out, and then re-reads the result to confirm they are gone.

Why do I have to convert HEIC first?

In HEIC the metadata is woven into the container's box structure rather than sitting in a separate segment, and a browser cannot re-encode HEVC to put the file back together safely. Converting to JPEG or PNG first gives a format where the removal is lossless and verifiable.

Can I clean a whole folder at once?

Yes. Add up to fifty files and they are processed one after another with the same settings, then downloaded as a single ZIP. A file that fails does not stop the rest of the batch, and a file that had nothing to remove is passed through unchanged.

Is the colour profile kept?

By default, yes. An ICC profile affects how colours are displayed and identifies nobody, so it is treated separately from the personal blocks. Turn off the keep-profile toggle if you want it removed as well.

Can the person receiving the photo tell that metadata was removed?

They can see that there is none, which is indistinguishable from a screenshot, a scan, a web export or a file from any platform that strips metadata on upload. What they cannot recover is the removed data itself. It is cut from the file, not hidden inside it.

Can I remove only the location and keep the camera settings?

Yes. Choose GPS location only, and the coordinates are removed from inside the EXIF block while the camera, lens, exposure and date survive intact. That suits a case where you want to keep the technical record of a shot but not the place.