Remove EXIF
Remove all EXIF metadata from your images including GPS location, camera model, timestamps, and personal information. Perfect for protecting your privacy when sharing photos online.
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What EXIF data reveals
EXIF — Exchangeable Image File Format — is metadata cameras write into photographs. Some of it is technical and harmless: exposure, aperture, ISO, focal length, orientation. Some of it is not. A phone photo typically records the exact GPS latitude and longitude where it was taken, the precise date and time, the device model, and sometimes the owner's name and the serial number of the camera.
That data travels with the file. Post the photo, email it, or attach it to a listing, and everything in it goes too. Some social platforms strip metadata on upload, but many services do not, and direct file transfers never do. Removing EXIF rewrites the image without those fields, leaving the pixels identical and the file free of anything describing where and when it was taken.
Why we built this tool
The risks are concrete and well documented: a marketplace listing that reveals a seller's home address, a photograph of a child that pinpoints their school, a whistleblower identified by the serial number of their camera.
Which makes uploading the photo to an online EXIF remover self-defeating — you are transmitting the fully tagged original, coordinates and all, to a third party in order to have the coordinates removed. This is the clearest possible case for a client-side tool, and it is why we built ours to redraw the image on a canvas in your browser. The stripped copy is generated on your device, the tagged original never moves, and nothing is stored anywhere.
Tips and common mistakes
- Strip metadata from any photo before posting it publicly, especially pictures taken at home.
- Some platforms strip EXIF on upload and many do not — never rely on the recipient's service to do it for you.
- Screenshots carry little metadata, but the image content itself often reveals more than the metadata would.
- Keep an untouched original privately if you want the camera settings for your own records.
Quick start: using Remove EXIF
- Load the photograph you plan to share.
- Check what metadata it currently contains, if the tool shows you.
- Run the removal to produce a clean copy.
- Download the stripped image and use that version for publishing.
- Keep the original privately if you want the camera settings for your own records.
Inspect before stripping with Extract EXIF. Note that Convert Image Format and Resize Image also drop metadata as a side effect.