Remove EXIF data
View and remove the EXIF data in a photo, including the camera, the date and the GPS location, free and in your browser with no upload. Read every tag first, then save a clean copy with none of it.
Photos often carry the camera, the time and the exact location. Here is what yours says.
In detail
The EXIF tool reads the EXIF, XMP and IPTC tags stored inside a photo, such as the camera and lens, the exposure settings, the date it was taken and often the GPS coordinates, and writes a clean copy with none of them. The file is read in your own tab and never uploaded, which matters more here than anywhere else, because the coordinates in a phone photo are accurate to within a few yards.
Stripping works by decoding the image to pixels and encoding it again: a canvas holds color and nothing else, so no tag survives. A JPEG is re-encoded at quality 0.95 on the way. Renaming a file removes nothing.
Remove EXIF data at a glance
- Input
- JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF and other photos
- Output
- A clean copy named with -clean: PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF and BMP stay in their own format, anything else becomes PNG
- What it does
- Reads EXIF, XMP and IPTC tags
- A GPS location warning
- Grouped tags: camera, exposure, image, date and location
- A one-click clean copy
- No map lookup, so coordinates never leave your device
- Who it is for
- Anyone posting photos online, selling things, or sending pictures that might reveal where they were taken.
- Limits
- The clean copy is re-encoded, so a JPEG loses a little quality.
- PDF and SVG files carry no EXIF; use the PDF metadata editor for PDFs.
- Privacy
- Runs entirely in your browser: the file is never uploaded, and nothing is kept after you close the tab.
How to remove EXIF data from a photo
- Drop a photo One file at a time. Photos from a phone or a camera carry the most; screenshots and exported graphics usually carry nothing at all.
- Read the tags What is found is grouped under Camera, Exposure, Image, Date and Location, with everything the sections did not claim listed alphabetically under Other. Binary blocks such as maker notes and embedded thumbnails are reported by size rather than printed as thousands of bytes.
- Check the location warning If the file records latitude and longitude, a warning shows both to six decimal places. No map is drawn: fetching one would send your coordinates to somebody else's server, and nothing here leaves your machine.
- Save a clean copy Press Strip metadata and download. The image is decoded and re-encoded from its pixels alone, and the file arrives named after the original with -clean on the end.
Remove EXIF data: common questions
Does renaming or resaving a file remove its EXIF data?
Renaming does nothing at all, because the tags live inside the file rather than in its name. Removing them takes a re-encode of the pixels, which is what the strip button does: the image is drawn onto a canvas, which stores color and nothing else, and written out again, so the camera, date and GPS block cannot come through.
What does the clean copy lose apart from the metadata?
Some quality, if the source was lossy. The clean copy is re-encoded at quality 0.95, so a JPEG in means a JPEG that has been through an encoder a second time out. PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF and BMP are written back in their own format; anything else is written as PNG.
Can it read a PDF, an SVG or a HEIC file?
PDF and SVG are turned away by name, because this tool reads the EXIF, XMP and IPTC tag blocks inside photos and neither container carries them. HEIC photos from an iPhone open like any other photo, so their tags, including the location, are listed and can be stripped.