Photo metadata viewer and remover See what your photo gives away. Then wipe it.
Camera, date and the exact place a photo was taken, shown and removed without touching a single pixel.
or drop them here · paste with Ctrl+V
Free · No sign-up · Files stay on your device
What this does
A photo metadata viewer and remover in one: choose photos and the page lists what each one carries besides the picture, with the GPS position in red when there is one. It then writes a copy with that information cut out, without re-encoding, and checks that the picture data did not change. The honest limit: it cannot remove what is drawn into the picture itself, such as a street sign.
When to use this, and when not
- Before you post a photo publicly, sell something online or send a picture to someone you do not know.
- Location only is right for a family album: the date and camera stay useful, the home address goes.
- To make the photo smaller as well, use compress photos; capture information can be removed there too, while the photo is re-encoded.
Honest limits
- HEIC, AVIF and GIF files are not changed.
- Faces, number plates and signs in the picture are not touched.
- Some photo apps keep their own copy of the location in their library; this page only changes the file you give it.
Privacy on this page
The coordinates are shown as numbers and never sent to a map service, and the file never leaves this tab. To see why some files grow or skip on other pages, read what a skip means.
Questions
Can a photo show where I live?
Yes, if the phone saved a location. Many phone photos carry GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres. This page shows them as numbers (it never sends them to a map) and marks every photo that has one, so you can remove the location before you share it.
Does removing metadata lower the quality?
No. Nothing is re-encoded. The capture information is cut out of the file and the picture data is copied across byte for byte. The page then compares the picture data in the new file with the original and says so on every photo.
What exactly is removed?
In JPEG: EXIF (camera, date, settings, GPS), XMP, IPTC, comments, maker blocks and anything stored after the end of the image, such as extra pictures and depth maps. In PNG: text, EXIF and time chunks. In WebP: EXIF and XMP. The colour profile stays unless you tick the box, because without it some colours can shift.
What stays?
The picture itself, the colour profile (unless removed) and, on a photo stored sideways, a tiny orientation note so it still shows upright. With Location only, the date and camera stay and just the GPS position goes.
Which formats work?
JPEG, PNG and WebP. HEIC, AVIF and GIF are left alone with a note saying so.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The file is read and rewritten in this tab. Nothing is sent anywhere, and the location is never looked up on a map service.
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