EXIF Remover: Remove Metadata from Photos

Most photos carry more than pixels. Cameras and phones write EXIF data into the file: the make and model of the device, the lens, the exact date and time, exposure settings and, if location services were on, GPS coordinates that can point to a home, a school or a workplace. Editing apps add XMP and IPTC blocks with names, copyright notes and edit history, and some files hold a small thumbnail of the original. When you share a photo, all of that can travel with it. Using an EXIF viewer shows how much a single picture can tell a stranger.

This metadata remover rewrites the file instead of redrawing it. A JPG is split into its segments and the Exif, XMP, IPTC, comment and other application segments are left out, while the image data is copied byte for byte. For a PNG the text, time and Exif chunks are dropped, and for a WebP the EXIF and XMP chunks are removed and the header updated. Because the picture is never decoded and saved again, there is no quality loss, and the file is usually smaller. To remove GPS from a photo this way is both thorough and lossless.

Two details are handled with care. Phones often store a portrait photo sideways and record the correct rotation in the Exif orientation tag; delete it and the picture appears rotated. By default the tool keeps a minimal block holding only that tag, which contains no personal information, and you can turn this off. Color profiles are also kept by default, since removing them can change how colors look. Anything else that identifies the camera, person or place is deleted, and each cleaned file is read back to confirm.

All of this happens in your browser. Your photos are read on your device and never uploaded, so it is safe for family pictures and sensitive documents, and there is no limit on how many you clean. Note that the tool removes metadata, not what is visible in the picture itself; a street sign or a face is still there, and the blur and pixelate tools can cover those.