EXIF Remover
Strip EXIF data, GPS location, camera details, and other hidden metadata from your photos before sharing them — without uploading them anywhere. Cleaning is lossless for JPG, PNG, and WebP (your pixels are never re-encoded), free, and handles up to 50 photos at once.
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How the EXIF remover works
Your photo is read locally in your browser and the metadata blocks — EXIF (including GPS), XMP, IPTC, and comments — are removed at the byte level, without ever touching the compressed image data. That makes the cleaning truly lossless: the output pixels are bit-for-bit identical to the original, unlike tools that quietly re-compress your photo.
The color profile is kept so your photo renders identically, and the orientation flag is preserved so phone photos don't come out sideways. iPhone HEIC photos have no lossless path, so they are decoded and saved as clean high-quality JPGs instead. Badges on each file show exactly what was found and removed, and batches download as a single zip.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the cleaning really lossless?
- For JPG, PNG, and WebP — yes. Metadata lives in separate segments of the file, so we delete those segments and leave the compressed image data untouched. Many online tools re-encode the image instead, which silently degrades quality.
- What exactly gets removed?
- EXIF (camera, settings, timestamps, and GPS coordinates), XMP, IPTC captions and keywords, embedded comments, and other vendor metadata. The ICC color profile is deliberately kept — it contains no personal data and removing it would shift your photo's colors.
- Why does the output still contain an orientation tag?
- Phones record photos sideways and rely on a rotation flag to display them correctly. We re-add a minimal tag containing only that flag — nothing else — so your cleaned photo doesn't appear rotated. It reveals nothing about you.
- Are my photos uploaded during cleaning?
- No. Everything runs in your browser — you can switch off your connection after the page loads and it still works. That is the whole point: a metadata remover you have to upload photos to defeats its own purpose.