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Remove metadata from a photo

Drop a photo to see what it reveals — where it was taken, on which phone, and when — then strip all of it in one click. Free, in your browser: the photo never leaves your device.

100% local — the photo never leaves your device.

How it works

  1. Drop, paste or pick a photo — from your phone, a camera, or a file someone sent you.

  2. See what the file reveals: GPS location, device, time and any hidden notes. Everything is read on your device.

  3. Remove all of it in one click and download the clean copy in the same format. The picture itself is not re-compressed.

What a photo gives away

A phone writes a record of every shot into the file itself. Most of it is harmless — until the file leaves your hands:

  • Where you live

    GPS coordinates are accurate to a few metres. A photo taken at home and sent as a file points to your front door.

  • Which camera is yours

    Make, model and sometimes a serial number. A serial is the same in every photo from that camera, so it ties them together.

  • When you were there

    The exact date and time of the shot, with your time zone — even if the photo is posted months later.

  • What you cropped out

    Many cameras store a small thumbnail of the original frame. Some editors crop the photo and leave that thumbnail as it was.

Some platforms remove metadata when you post; many ways of sending a photo do not. A file attached to an email, sent as a document in a messenger, or shared from a cloud drive usually arrives with everything intact.

What is removed, and what is kept

Removed: all EXIF data including GPS, camera, maker notes and the EXIF thumbnail, XMP and IPTC blocks, comments and text notes, and any block the tool does not recognise. In JPEG, PNG and WebP files, extra images stored after the picture go too: HDR gain maps, depth maps, motion-photo video.

Kept: the picture itself, byte for byte — nothing is re-encoded, so there is no quality loss — plus the orientation and the colour profile. A HEIC also keeps its built-in thumbnail, depth and HDR images: they are part of the picture and carry no metadata. Everything that identifies you is removed in every format.

Nothing is uploaded

The photo is read and cleaned by code running in this tab. There is no server it is sent to: once the page has loaded, you can go offline and the tool still works on your own photos.

Need to hide something visible in the picture too — a face, a plate, a name on a screen? Blur part of the image — its PNG download carries no metadata either.

Share your screen, not your data

The DataBlur extension blurs emails, names and numbers on the live page before a screen share or recording picks them up.

FAQ

Information stored inside the image file alongside the picture: usually EXIF data from the camera — location, device, date and settings — and sometimes XMP or IPTC blocks added by editing apps. You do not see it when you look at the photo, but anyone with the file can read it.

No. The tool removes the metadata blocks and copies the picture data unchanged. One exception: an HDR JPEG from a recent phone loses its HDR layer and shows as a normal photo. A HEIC keeps its HDR layer, because it is part of the picture.

Open this page in Safari, tap Choose a photo and pick it from your library, then download the clean copy. For a single share you can also tap Options at the top of the share sheet and switch Location off.

The large ones generally strip location from the copy they publish, but they do it on their servers, after they have received your original. Sending a photo as a document or a file keeps it whole. Removing the metadata yourself means it never leaves your device.

A phone often stores a photo sideways and records how to turn it upright. Without that tag the photo would open rotated. It says nothing about you, so it stays — and the colour profile stays for the same reason.

JPEG, PNG, WebP and HEIC, up to 100 MB. The clean file keeps its format. Chrome cannot display HEIC, so there is no preview there, but the report and the clean file are the same as in Safari.