Remove EXIF data and location from photos
See what your photos say about you, then download clean copies without it: GPS location, date taken, phone model, serial numbers and more. Many photos at once, and none of them ever leave this tab.
- Free, no sign-up
- Never uploaded
- Lossless for JPEG, PNG, WebP
EXIF remover
See and remove location, date and device data
Drop photos, paste them, or choose files
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC and AVIF. Many at once, read and cleaned in this tab.
- Never uploaded
- Lossless for JPEG, PNG, WebP
- Many photos at once
Stays on your device. Your file is processed right here in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere.
Updated October 2026
Quick answer
To remove EXIF data from a photo, save a copy without its metadata blocks and share the copy, not the original. EXIF is the hidden data a camera or phone writes into the file: often the GPS location, the date and time, the device model and sometimes its serial number. The tool above shows what each photo contains and strips it in your browser; for JPEG, PNG and WebP the picture itself is not re-compressed, so nothing is lost.
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What is hiding in the file
What one photo can reveal about you
None of this is visible when you look at the picture. All of it travels with the file wherever you send it.
Where you were
Phones write GPS coordinates into every photo when camera location access is on, often precise enough to identify a house.
When you were there
The exact date and time the photo was taken, frequently with your time zone offset next to it.
What you shot it with
Make, model and lens, and on many cameras a body serial number that links every photo you publish back to one device.
What it looked like before
Some files carry a small embedded thumbnail that an editor did not update, which can show the picture as it was before a crop.
How it works
How to remove EXIF data from a photo
- 1
Add your photos
Drop one or many photos on the tool, paste them, or press Choose photos. JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC and AVIF are supported.
- 2
See what each photo reveals
The tool lists the metadata it found in each file: GPS coordinates, the date and time it was taken, the camera or phone model, serial numbers, editing software and any embedded thumbnail.
- 3
Let it remove the metadata
A clean copy is made straight away. For JPEG, PNG and WebP only the metadata blocks are cut out, so the picture itself is untouched and keeps its full quality.
- 4
Download the clean copies
Download each photo, or all of them as one ZIP file. Every clean copy is read again before you get it, to confirm that no location, device or date data is left.
Supported formats
Clean, without re-compressing the picture
Most online tools redraw your photo and save it again, which costs quality. This one removes the metadata blocks from the file and leaves the image data alone wherever the format allows it.
| Format | Method | What is removed |
|---|---|---|
| JPEG | Lossless | EXIF, XMP, IPTC and comment blocks removed; colour profile kept; data appended after the image cut off. |
| PNG | Lossless | Text, XMP, EXIF and timestamp chunks removed; pixels untouched. |
| WebP | Lossless | EXIF and XMP chunks removed and the header updated to match. |
| HEIC / AVIF | Converted | Re-saved as a high-quality JPEG with no metadata, in browsers that can open the format (Safari for HEIC). |
The one tag kept is Orientation, written back on its own when a photo needs it, so a portrait shot does not open sideways. It says nothing about you, the place, the time or the device.
Metadata removal hides
- GPS coordinates and altitude
- Date, time and time zone
- Camera, phone, lens and serial numbers
- Author, owner and copyright fields
- Editing software and embedded thumbnails
It does not hide
- Faces, house numbers and street signs in the picture
- Names, emails or numbers visible on a screen
- Reflections, landmarks and the view out of a window
For those, cover them in the image itself with the free redact image tool.
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