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Remove EXIF & Metadata from Photos - Free & Lossless

Strip GPS coordinates, camera serial numbers, timestamps and every other metadata tag from your JPG, PNG and WebP images. Unlike tools that redraw your photo through a canvas, we delete the metadata segments directly - your pixel data is copied byte for byte and never re-encoded. Everything runs in your browser, so your photos are never uploaded anywhere.

EXIF Remover Features

See What Your Photo Reveals

Before cleaning, the EXIF remover shows exactly what your photo is leaking: GPS coordinates, camera make and model, serial numbers, capture timestamps, and editing software. Know what you are sharing before you share it.

Truly Lossless Removal

We delete the metadata segments from the file container directly. The compressed pixel data is copied byte for byte and never touched. Many online metadata removers redraw your image through a canvas, which re-encodes the JPEG and silently degrades quality. This one does not.

Files Never Leave Your Device

Using an online tool to strip GPS coordinates from a photo means handing those coordinates to that website. This EXIF remover runs entirely in your browser - no upload, no server, no logging. The privacy problem is solved, not relocated.

GPS Location Detection

Photos taken on smartphones often embed the exact coordinates where they were shot. The metadata remover flags GPS data prominently and lets you verify the location before stripping it. No map tiles are loaded, so nothing is requested from third parties.

Batch Processing

Clean up to 20 photos at once and download them as a single ZIP. Each file is processed independently, so one problematic image never stops the rest of the batch.

JPG, PNG and WebP

Removes EXIF and XMP from JPEG, tEXt/iTXt/zTXt/eXIf chunks from PNG, and EXIF/XMP chunks from WebP. Every format is handled with byte-level container edits that preserve image data exactly.

How to Remove EXIF Data from Photos

Add Your Photos

Drag and drop your images onto the page, or click to select them. The EXIF remover accepts JPG, PNG and WebP files up to 50MB each, and up to 20 files at a time. Nothing is uploaded - files are read directly from your device.

Review What Was Found

Each photo is scanned instantly and the metadata remover lists what it found. High-risk entries - GPS coordinates, camera serial numbers, timestamps, and software - are shown first. Click to expand the full list of every tag embedded in the file.

Verify the GPS Location

If your photo carries GPS coordinates, they are displayed as raw latitude and longitude. Open the location in OpenStreetMap if you want to confirm what it points to - this only happens when you click, so no third-party requests are made otherwise.

Clean and Download

Click clean to strip all metadata. A single file downloads directly; multiple files are packaged into a ZIP. Every cleaned file is verified to still decode correctly before it reaches you - if anything goes wrong, your original file is returned untouched.

When to Remove Photo Metadata

Before Posting Photos Online

Photos taken on a phone usually embed the exact GPS coordinates where they were shot. Posting a picture of your living room can publish your home address. Strip EXIF data before uploading to forums, marketplaces, or personal sites that do not clean metadata for you.

Selling Items Online

Marketplace listings photographed at home carry your location in the file. Remove GPS from photos before posting to classifieds, so buyers see the item and nothing else.

Sharing Photos of Children

Family photos posted to shared albums or messaging apps can reveal the exact location and time they were taken. Removing metadata is the simplest way to keep that information out of circulation.

Journalism and Source Protection

Images from sources can identify the device that took them through camera serial numbers, and pinpoint where they were taken. Stripping metadata is a standard step before publishing or forwarding sensitive material.

Submitting Professional Work

Photos exported from Lightroom or Photoshop carry your software version, editing history, and sometimes your name. Clean the metadata before delivering files to a client who should not see your workflow.

Reducing File Size Slightly

Embedded thumbnails, colour profiles and XMP blocks can add tens of kilobytes to each file. Removing them shrinks the file without touching a single pixel of image data.

Tips for Removing EXIF Data

Screenshots Carry Metadata Too

PNG screenshots often embed the software that created them and a timestamp in tEXt chunks. They carry no GPS, but they can still reveal which tools you use and when you worked.

Check the Result

After cleaning, drop the downloaded file back into the tool. It should report that the photo is clean. This takes five seconds and confirms the metadata is actually gone.

Turn Off Location at the Source

Most phones let you disable location tagging in the camera settings. Doing that prevents GPS data from ever being written, which is safer than remembering to strip it afterwards.

Keep Your Originals

Metadata removal is irreversible - capture dates and camera settings are genuinely useful for your own archive. Clean copies for sharing, keep the originals for yourself.

Social Platforms Are Not Consistent

Some platforms strip EXIF on upload, others do not, and their behaviour changes over time. Cleaning the file yourself is the only way to be certain.

Lossless Means Genuinely Lossless

Because we edit the container rather than the image, you can clean the same file repeatedly with zero quality loss. Tools that re-encode degrade the photo a little more each pass.

Why Use This EXIF Remover

No Quality Loss, Guaranteed

We remove metadata by deleting segments from the file container. The compressed image data is copied byte for byte. Verify it yourself: compare the original and the cleaned file pixel by pixel and the difference will be exactly zero.

Genuinely Private

The whole point of removing GPS data is to stop it from spreading. Uploading your photo to a server to achieve that defeats the purpose. This tool processes everything locally in your browser, so your photos never travel anywhere.

Transparency Before Action

Most removers just give you a cleaned file. This one shows you exactly what was in the photo first, so you understand what you were exposing and can decide what matters.

Free with No Limits

No account, no watermark, no daily cap, no premium tier. Because everything runs in your browser, there are no server costs to recover - which is why this can stay free permanently.

Instant, Even for Large Files

Metadata lives in the first few kilobytes of a file, so reading it is instant. Stripping it is a byte copy. There is no upload wait and no processing queue.

Works Offline

Once the page has loaded, the EXIF remover keeps working without an internet connection. Useful when handling sensitive files on an air-gapped machine.

EXIF Remover FAQ

EXIF is metadata that cameras and phones embed inside image files. It typically records the GPS coordinates where the photo was taken, the camera make, model and serial number, the exact capture time, and the software used to edit it. Removing it prevents that information from travelling with the photo when you share it.

Not with this tool. We delete the metadata segments from the file container and copy the compressed pixel data byte for byte, so the image is mathematically identical. Be careful with other online removers - many redraw the image onto a canvas and re-export it, which re-encodes the JPEG and degrades quality slightly every time.

No. Everything runs in your browser using JavaScript. Your files are read from your device, processed in memory, and downloaded back to you. Nothing is transmitted, stored or logged. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the tool will still work.

JPEG, PNG and WebP. For JPEG we remove the APP1 (EXIF and XMP), APP13 (IPTC) and APP14 segments plus comment blocks. For PNG we remove tEXt, iTXt, zTXt, eXIf and tIME chunks. For WebP we remove the EXIF and XMP chunks and correct the container length.

Not currently. HEIC stores metadata inside a nested box structure that requires rewriting internal offsets, and a cleaned HEIC would still be unopenable in Chrome and Firefox. If you have HEIC photos, convert them to JPG first and then clean the result.

Yes. GPS coordinates are stored inside the EXIF block, which is removed entirely. The tool shows you the coordinates before cleaning so you can see exactly what was embedded, and afterwards no location data remains in the file.

Drop the cleaned file back into this tool - it should report that the photo is clean. For independent confirmation, run exiftool on the file from a terminal, or check the file properties in your operating system.

Not in this version. Keeping selected tags means parsing and rebuilding the EXIF structure rather than simply deleting it, which introduces risk of corrupting the file. Right now the tool removes all metadata, which is what most people want when stripping a photo for sharing.

You can process up to 20 files at a time, each up to 50MB. These limits exist only to keep your browser responsive, not to push you towards a paid plan - there is no paid plan.

Some do, some do not, and their behaviour changes without notice. Even platforms that strip metadata from the public version may retain the original internally. Cleaning the file before you upload it is the only approach that does not depend on someone else's policy.

The pixels are identical. One thing to note: if a photo relies on the EXIF orientation flag, removing it can change how some viewers rotate the image. Most modern photos store orientation correctly in the pixel data itself, so this is rare.

Metadata takes up real space - embedded thumbnails, colour profiles and XMP blocks can add tens of kilobytes. Removing them shrinks the file without altering a single pixel.

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