Remove EXIF data from photos — image metadata remover

Drop the photo into the tool above. If it contains GPS coordinates, a warning appears and the coordinates are shown so you can see exactly what would have been shared. The downloaded copy has the EXIF block — where phones store the location — removed entirely, along with any XMP packet that repeats it.

Not here. The tool removes metadata by cutting whole blocks out of the file and copying everything else byte for byte, so the compressed image data is identical to the original. Many other tools draw the image onto a canvas and save it again, which strips metadata as a side effect but also re-compresses a JPEG and loses a little quality each time.

Phones often store a photo in the orientation the sensor captured it and add an EXIF Orientation tag telling viewers to rotate it. Removing EXIF removes that tag, so a viewer that relied on it shows the raw, unrotated image. The tool warns you when a file has a non-default orientation. If that matters, rotate the photo in an editor first and save it, then strip the metadata from the result.

No. The file is read with the browser's File API, parsed and rebuilt in JavaScript inside this page, and downloaded from a local blob. There is no network request at any point, which you can confirm in your browser's developer tools on the network tab.

From JPEG: EXIF, XMP, IPTC/Photoshop data, C2PA content credentials (APP11), comments, other application segments, and any data appended after the end of the image, such as embedded depth or HDR maps. From PNG: text chunks (tEXt, zTXt, iTXt), eXIf, tIME and caBX. From WebP: EXIF and XMP chunks. Colour profiles are kept unless you turn that option off, and structural blocks such as JFIF, the Adobe colour-transform marker, sRGB and gamma are always kept because the image needs them to look the same.

Usually yes. An ICC profile tells the viewer how to interpret the colours, and photos from recent phones and cameras often use a wide-gamut profile such as Display P3. Without it, colours can look duller or shifted. A profile says almost nothing about you — it is a description of a colour space, not of a device you own — so keeping it costs little privacy.

Yes. Dropping a file only reads it: the findings table and the EXIF summary appear straight away, and nothing changes until you choose to download the cleaned copy. Your original file is never modified.

JPEG, PNG and WebP — the formats nearly every camera, phone and screenshot tool produces. HEIC, AVIF, GIF and RAW files are not handled; a file in one of those formats is reported as unsupported rather than silently passed through.