Or click the button below. Your file will be processed locally and never uploaded to any server.
When you take a photo, your device secretly embeds hidden data inside the file called EXIF data. This metadata can expose your precise GPS location, the exact time the photo was taken, and what device you used. Our free Photo Metadata Remover allows you to strip this sensitive information completely offline, ensuring your privacy before you share photos online.
Unlike many online tools that recompress your images and ruin their quality, our tool uses a sophisticated binary editing method for JPEGs. We cleanly excise the EXIF tags without ever touching the image pixels—meaning zero loss in quality.
To protect your privacy, we never upload your photos to our servers. All metadata removal happens completely locally inside your web browser. Once you load the page, it even works offline.
For JPEG files, you can choose to nuke all metadata or selectively remove just the sensitive bits like GPS location and camera model while preserving formatting tags like image orientation.
While we offer special non-destructive editing for JPEGs, our tool supports removing metadata from PNGs, WebPs, and other web formats using an automated, high-quality canvas redraw method.
Modern smartphones stamp exact GPS coordinates into every photo you take. Removing this prevents strangers from tracking down your home or workplace.
EXIF data can include unique serial numbers for your camera lens and device model, which could theoretically be used to link multiple photos to you.
Sometimes metadata can include embedded thumbnails and massive chunks of editing history (like Photoshop data). Stripping it reduces file size for web uploads.
Drag and drop the image you want to scrub into the tool above.
Select 'Remove Everything' or tailor the removal if you have a JPEG.
Click the download button to instantly save your metadata-free image.
Not with our tool! For JPEG images, we use a specialized binary editing technique that snips out the EXIF data without re-encoding the actual picture. This means the visual quality of your image remains 100% identical to the original.
Yes, major platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter automatically strip EXIF data when you upload photos to protect your privacy. However, if you are emailing photos, sending them via document sharing apps, or posting them on smaller forums, the metadata is usually preserved, which is why scrubbing them first is critical.
No. Once you download the scrubbed image, the metadata is permanently gone from that new file. We highly recommend keeping your original file in a safe, offline location if you need to reference the camera settings or GPS data in the future.
Some cameras physically record the image sideways and simply add an EXIF 'Orientation' tag telling image viewers to rotate it 90 degrees. If you 'Remove Everything', that tag is deleted, causing the image to appear in its raw, sideways state. If this happens, use our 'Remove GPS & Camera Data Only' mode for JPEGs, which preserves the orientation tag.
Absolutely not. The entire scrubbing process is executed directly within your web browser using JavaScript. No image data is ever transmitted to our servers.
No registration, no tracking of your content, no server uploads. Don't just take our word for it:
Your files and text are processed entirely on your device. Nothing is ever sent to us.
Once loaded, this tool keeps working with your Wi-Fi turned off. Try it.
Open your browser's DevTools → Network tab. You'll see zero requests carrying your data.
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