EXIF Remover & Metadata Viewer
See what's hidden inside your photos — camera model, timestamps and GPS location — then strip it out with one click. JPG and PNG are cleaned losslessly (no quality loss). 100% in your browser; your images never leave your device.
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JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF — checked & cleaned locally
EXIF Metadata Explained — What Your Photos Reveal and How to Remove It
Every time you take a photo, your camera or phone quietly writes a block of hidden data into the image file. This is called EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) metadata, and it travels with the photo wherever it goes — unless you remove it.
What's actually inside your photos
- GPS location — many phones embed the exact latitude and longitude where a photo was taken, accurate to a few metres. Share the original and you may be broadcasting your home address.
- Date & time — the precise moment the shot was captured, down to the second.
- Device details — camera or phone make, model and even the lens.
- Camera settings — exposure, aperture, ISO and focal length.
- Editing software and, sometimes, the author or copyright fields, plus XMP and IPTC data added by editing apps.
Why remove it before sharing
Some social networks strip EXIF automatically when you upload — but many do not, and none strip it when you send the original file over email, chat or a cloud link. Removing metadata protects your location privacy, prevents device fingerprinting, and gives you a clean file to publish. This tool shows you exactly what's embedded first, so you can see the risk before you clear it.
How this tool works
- Lossless for JPG & PNG — it performs "segment surgery," removing only the EXIF, XMP, IPTC and comment blocks while leaving the compressed image data byte-for-byte identical. Your picture is not recompressed, so there is zero quality loss.
- Colour is preserved — the embedded ICC colour profile is kept, so your photo still looks the same.
- WebP & TIFF are re-encoded to a clean PNG (also lossless).
- Nothing is uploaded — reading and cleaning happen entirely in your browser using JavaScript and typed arrays.
Privacy
Your image is processed locally and never sent anywhere. Close the tab and nothing remains. You can verify this yourself by opening your browser's DevTools Network tab while you use the tool.