Remove EXIF Metadata from Photos

Every photo from a phone or camera carries hidden EXIF metadata: the camera model, the date it was taken, the settings used — and often the exact GPS location where you stood. Sharing the photo shares all of that. This free EXIF remover strips the metadata before you post, so the image you share contains only the picture itself.

The cleaning happens entirely in your browser. Your photo is re-encoded locally — JPEGs at quality 92, which looks the same to the eye — and the new file carries no EXIF, no GPS coordinates and no camera details. First check what your photo contains with the EXIF Data Viewer, then clean it here, and if the file is still large, shrink it with the Image Compressor.

What is EXIF data?

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a block of information your camera or phone writes into every photo file. It records the camera make and model, lens, exposure, ISO, focal length, the date and time, and — on most phones — GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres. Social networks usually strip some of it when you upload, but messaging apps, email attachments and direct file shares often do not.

How re-encoding removes it

This tool does not try to edit the metadata block in place. Instead it draws your photo onto a fresh canvas and saves a brand-new file from the pixels alone. A new file built from pixels has no place for the old metadata to hide, so EXIF, GPS, thumbnails and camera notes are all gone. JPEGs are saved at quality 92, which is visually near-lossless: the pixels look the same, only the hidden data is dropped.

What is removed

One honest limit: re-encoding creates a new file, so the cleaned copy is not byte-for-byte identical to the original — the image looks the same, but the file itself is freshly written. Keep your original if you need the metadata later.