View and remove EXIF metadata from photos

Choose up to 50 images, each up to 25 MB and 300 MB in total. For each file, the page lists the tags it found, grouped into location, device and capture settings, dates, people and rights, software and text, and anything else. Two short lists show which data blocks will go and what will stay, including data appended after the end of the image.

Select Remove metadata once you have checked the lists. Each cleaned file is scanned again and decoded once to confirm that its width and height match the original, and a file that fails this check gets no download. One image downloads directly with -no-metadata added to its name; several images download together as a ZIP.

Removed: EXIF, including GPS coordinates, camera and lens details, capture times, and author and copyright tags; XMP and IPTC; comments; PNG text and time chunks; embedded thumbnails; multi-picture data; and anything stored after the end of the image.

Kept: the compressed image data, the ICC colour profile and other colour settings, pixel density, animation frames, and the bit depth of a 16-bit PNG. Nothing is re-encoded, so there is no quality loss. A photo that relies on a rotation flag keeps one orientation tag, because without it the picture would display sideways, and that single tag appears in the list of what stays. A visible watermark is part of the pixels and stays exactly as it was. The guide to EXIF and exported images explains how this differs from what an image editor’s export does to metadata.

Everything in that list goes together, so a cleaned copy also loses its copyright line and author name. Content Credentials, a record of where an image came from, are removed with the rest. This tool is meant for protecting your privacy, not for hiding the origin of an image, so use it only on images you own or have the right to process. If you want your name on a picture you publish, put it where it stays visible with the photo copyright tool.

Phones also store extras in the same file. Deleting everything after the end of the image takes away the video part of a motion photo and the gain map an HDR photo uses, so those pictures become ordinary still images. Keep the original if you may want any of this later; the download is an extra copy and never replaces your file.

Location is the main reason. A picture taken at home can reveal the address to anyone who opens the file, and not every website or messaging app clears the data for you. Marketplace listings, forum posts, email attachments, and copies of documents are common cases. Cleaning the file does not hide what the picture itself shows, such as a street sign or a house number.

The tool accepts JPG, PNG, and WebP. HEIC, AVIF, GIF, TIFF, and RAW files are not supported, so export a HEIC photo to JPEG first. The created and modified dates your computer shows belong to the file system rather than to the image, so they are not part of this cleanup.

The file is read and rewritten by code running in your browser. Tags are displayed on this page and are not sent anywhere or saved. Coordinates are shown as plain text, with no map and no outside link. The privacy policy describes what the site does and does not collect.