Remove metadata & GPS from your photos

Every photo your phone takes carries more than the picture — where it was taken, which camera took it, and when. See exactly what yours are carrying, then strip it out before you share.

What your photos are actually carrying

A photo file is not only pixels. Alongside the image, cameras and phones write a block of EXIF metadata that commonly includes the GPS coordinates where the shot was taken — often accurate to a few metres — plus the camera make and model, its serial number, the lens used, and the exact date and time down to the second.

None of that is visible when you look at the picture, which is precisely the problem. A photo of something harmless, posted publicly, can carry the coordinates of your home.

Some platforms strip this on upload. Many do not, and the ones that do rarely say so. Sending a file directly — by email, by message, on a forum, or as a marketplace listing photo — almost never strips anything.

How this tool removes it

For JPG and PNG the metadata is removed losslessly. The file's structure is walked, the metadata segments are dropped, and the compressed image data is copied across untouched. Your photo is not re-compressed and loses no quality whatsoever — only the boxes around the image are removed.

That is worth knowing because it is not how most metadata removers work. The usual approach is to redraw the image and re-save it, which does clear the metadata but re-compresses every pixel as a side effect. A lossless request quietly costs you quality.

The colour profile and display density are deliberately kept. Removing those would shift your photo's colours and could change the size it displays at — a cost with no privacy benefit, since neither identifies you.

What is kept and what is removed

Removed: GPS coordinates and altitude, camera make, model and serial number, lens details, capture and modification timestamps, software and editing history, author and copyright fields, embedded thumbnails, and any free-text comments.

Kept: the image itself, bit for bit; the ICC colour profile so colours render correctly; and JFIF density so the image displays at the intended size.

The tool tells you which of these were present in each file rather than simply reporting success, so you can see what was actually there.

Nothing is uploaded

The file never leaves your device. It is read by the browser tab, rewritten in memory, and handed back to you as a download. There is no server involved at any point.

You do not have to take that on trust. Load this page, disconnect from the internet, and clean a photo anyway — it still works, because everything needed is already in the tab. That is not a claim a tool which uploads your files could make.

This matters more for metadata than for anything else on this site. Uploading a photo to have its location data removed means handing that location data to whoever runs the server, which is an odd way to protect it.

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