Remove EXIF & GPS Metadata from Photos
Free online EXIF remover: strip camera info, timestamps, and GPS location from photos before sharing them. 100% local in your browser — your photos are never uploaded.
About EXIF Remover
Every photo your phone or camera takes can embed hidden metadata: the device model, the exact time, and — most importantly — the GPS coordinates of where it was shot. Sharing that photo can share your location with strangers. This tool shows you what metadata a photo contains and strips all of it by re-encoding the image locally in your browser, so the cleaned file looks identical but says nothing about you.
How to use EXIF Remover
- Drop one or more photos (JPG, PNG, WebP) into the upload area.
- Each photo is scanned and its metadata listed — camera, dates, and GPS location if present.
- Press “Remove metadata” on a photo (or “Clean all”) to re-encode it without any metadata.
- Download the cleaned copy and share that one instead of the original.
What your photos say about you — and how to shut them up
The metadata you don't see
A JPEG is more than pixels. Tucked into the file is EXIF data: camera make and model, exposure settings, the date and time, often a serial number, and frequently GPS coordinates accurate to a few meters.
Post a photo of your front door, your kid's school, or your vacation home, and that data can go with it. Metadata harvesting is a real technique used by burglars, stalkers, and data brokers alike.
How this tool removes it
The most reliable way to remove metadata is not to surgically delete fields (easy to miss one) but to rebuild the file from scratch: your browser decodes the photo to raw pixels and encodes a brand-new file from them. Metadata does not survive that trip — by construction, not by checklist.
One detail handled for you: EXIF orientation. Cameras store 'rotate 90°' as a tag instead of rotating the pixels. If you just delete the tag, the photo displays sideways — so this tool applies the rotation to the pixels first, then writes the clean file.
Before and after
The tool shows you the metadata it found before cleaning, so you can see exactly what would have been shared — camera model, timestamps, and a map-ready GPS coordinate. After cleaning, re-scanning the output finds nothing.
Pair this with our EXIF Metadata Viewer to inspect any photo, and with Image Compressor if you also want to shrink the file before sending.
Frequently asked questions
Does removing EXIF change how the photo looks?
No. Only the hidden metadata is removed; the pixels are preserved (JPEGs are re-encoded at high quality). Any rotation stored in the metadata is applied to the pixels, so the photo keeps its correct orientation.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The scan and the re-encoding both happen inside your browser tab. You can verify it in the Network tab of your developer tools: there are no requests.
Which metadata is removed?
Everything embedded in the file: EXIF (camera, settings, dates, GPS), XMP, and color-profile side data. The cleaned file contains only pixels.
Why not just use a messenger's built-in compression?
Some messengers strip metadata, some don't — and it can depend on whether you send as 'photo' or 'file'. Cleaning the photo yourself first is the only guarantee.
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