Free tool

Remove metadata from photos

Strip the GPS location, camera details, dates and text fields from a photo before you share it. The picture stays exactly the same, and nothing is uploaded.

How to remove metadata from a photo

1. Drop one or more JPG, PNG or WebP photos above.
2. See what each one contained: location, date, camera and more.
3. Download the clean copy. Your original file is not changed.

Not sure what a photo reveals? Check where it was taken or see all of its metadata.

What is removed and what is kept

The tool removes every block of a photo that describes it rather than draws it. In a JPG that means the EXIF data (including GPS, dates, camera make and model, lens and settings, and the small preview thumbnail some cameras embed), the XMP and IPTC blocks where titles, captions, keywords, credits and copyright live, and any text comments. PNG text chunks and the metadata blocks in WebP files are removed in the same way.

It keeps only what changes how the picture looks: the colour profile, so colours stay the same in browsers and editors, and for JPGs the orientation flag, so a photo taken with the phone turned sideways still displays the right way up. The image data is copied byte for byte and never re-compressed, which is why the clean copy is usually a little smaller but looks identical.

When it is worth cleaning a photo

• Selling something online. A photo of an item taken at home can carry your home's coordinates to anyone who downloads it.
• Sending photos by email, a cloud link or a file-transfer service, which usually deliver the original file with everything in it.
• Publishing photos on your own website, a forum or a blog, where the file is often served exactly as you uploaded it.
• Sharing work photos that should not reveal a customer's address, or which camera, phone or software you use.

You do not always need to. Large social networks generally remove location from the copy they show others, though what they keep for themselves is set by their own policies. If you are not sure what a photo reveals, check it first.

Check the result

Each report lists what the photo contained before cleaning, such as GPS location, the date taken or the camera, and the file size before and after. To confirm the clean copy, drop it into the photo metadata checker: the location and text fields should be gone. The original file on your device is never changed; the clean copy is saved with "-no-metadata" added to its name.

Private by design

Cleaning happens inside this browser tab. The photos are read from your device, cleaned in memory and handed back as downloads, so nothing is uploaded and there is no copy on our servers. You can clean up to 20 photos at a time, up to 60 MB each.

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