Remove Exif and GPS data from photos — without re-encoding them
Drop in a photo — JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, HEIC or AVIF, or a whole folder at once — and get the same picture back with the location, camera, date and editing history taken out. The image itself is not re-compressed, so nothing is lost from it. Everything runs inside your browser: the photo never leaves your device.
When this helps
A phone photo records where it was taken. Posting it to a marketplace, a forum or a dating profile publishes that location along with it.
Drop the photo here, save the result, and post that instead.
An image from a contact carries the device, the timestamp and the coordinates, and passing it on unchanged can identify who sent it.
Strip the batch before it goes any further.
Listing photos taken at home carry GPS coordinates that point at the front door.
Select all the listing photos at once and save the ZIP.
Photos taken at a client site or a construction site record where and when, and the file goes out by email as it is.
Remove the metadata first, then attach the file.
FAQ
- Is the photo uploaded anywhere?
- No. Everything happens inside your browser — nothing is sent to a server. This is the one tool where that matters most, so if the in-browser run ever fails, nothing is uploaded unless you click a button that says so.
- Does the image quality change?
- No. The picture is not decoded and not re-compressed: the compressed image data is copied through byte for byte and only the parts of the file *around* it are edited. That is different from most tools that do this, which convert the image and drop the metadata on the way — costing you a generation of JPEG quality every time.
- What exactly is removed?
- The GPS location, the Exif block (camera, lens, date taken and the shooting settings), XMP editing history, IPTC caption and copyright fields, comments, the embedded thumbnail, and any maker-specific block the file happened to carry. The result tells you which of those your file actually had.
- Is anything deliberately kept?
- Two things, and both are about the picture rather than about you. The colour profile stays — removing it would make a wide-gamut photo come back oversaturated. And if the photo is rotated by an orientation tag, that single tag is kept, because deleting it would leave every portrait photo sideways. Neither says anything about where or when a photo was taken.
- Which formats are supported?
- JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, HEIC and AVIF. TIFF is not: a TIFF is built out of the same directory structure the metadata lives in, so removing it means rewriting the image itself, and a half-done job on a scan is worse than saying no.
- Can I do several photos at once?
- Yes, and they can be different formats. Select or drop up to 50 files (200MB in total) and a single ZIP comes back. A ZIP of images works as an input too. Each file keeps its own name with `_no-metadata` added, so extracting the results can never overwrite your originals.
- How can I check it worked?
- Open the result in any Exif viewer, or right-click → Properties → Details on Windows and look at the Origin and GPS rows. They will be empty. Note that Windows shows some of its own information there, which is not stored in the file.
- What about a photo that contains a second, hidden image?
- Some phones save an extra copy of the shot inside the same JPEG (a multi-picture or MPO file), and that copy has its own location data. It is removed along with everything else, so the result is a single image.
- Does it remove watermarks or anything visible in the picture?
- No. This only removes information stored alongside the image. Anything you can see in the photo itself — a face, a street sign, a screen — is still there.
Related tools
- Redact personal information — For names, addresses and ID numbers inside a text file
- Convert images to JPEG — When you need a different format — that one keeps the metadata