EXIF Remover

What your photographs are carrying

A photograph taken on a phone or a modern camera is not just an image. The file also contains EXIF metadata, written automatically, that can include:

• Exact GPS coordinates of where it was taken, usually to within a few metres.
• The date and time, to the second.
• The camera or phone make and model, which identifies the device.
• Camera settings — aperture, shutter, ISO, lens.
• The software used to edit it.
• Sometimes an owner name or copyright string configured once and forgotten.

None of this is visible when you look at the picture. All of it travels with the file.

Why it matters

A photograph of something innocuous taken at home carries your home's coordinates. Posted publicly, that is your address, attached to a picture, readable by anyone who knows to look. People selling items online, posting about pets, or sharing photographs of children routinely publish their location without any idea they are doing it.

Some social platforms strip EXIF on upload. Many messaging apps, forums, marketplaces and email clients do not. You cannot tell by looking, and the safe assumption is that it survives.

How this removes it

The image is decoded to its raw pixels and redrawn onto a blank canvas, then saved out fresh. The new file is built from pixel data alone, so there is no metadata to carry over — not the GPS, not the camera, not the timestamp, not anything else that was in the original container.

It is a more thorough approach than deleting individual tags, because nothing from the original file structure survives at all.

What it costs

Re-encoding a JPEG means one more compression pass, so there is a small quality cost. The output is saved at high quality to keep that minimal, but it is not bit-identical to the original. For a photograph you are about to post publicly, that is a trade worth making.

Orientation is also stored in EXIF. If a picture appears rotated after stripping, the original relied on an orientation tag that no longer exists — the rotator will fix it permanently.

Common uses

• Before posting anywhere public — marketplaces, forums, dating profiles, social media.
• Sending photographs to strangers, for a sale or a repair quote.
• Publishing images on a website, where metadata offers no benefit and some risk.
• Checking what a photo reveals before deciding whether to share it at all.

Questions people ask

What is EXIF data?

Metadata written into a photograph by the camera. It can include GPS coordinates, the date and time, the device make and model and the camera settings.

Do photos really contain my location?

If location services were enabled for the camera, yes — usually accurate to a few metres. This page shows you whether yours does.

Do social networks remove it for me?

Some do. Many messaging apps, forums, marketplaces and email clients do not, and you cannot tell by looking. Assume it survives.

Does removing it change the picture?

Only through one extra compression pass, saved at high quality. The visible image is the same.

Why did my photo rotate after stripping?

Because the orientation was stored as an EXIF tag rather than in the pixels. Use the rotator to fix it permanently.

Is my photo uploaded to check it?

No. The file is read and parsed in your browser.

Your image is not uploaded

This is the part worth being precise about, because almost every other site offering these tools works differently.

When you choose a file here, your browser reads it from your disk into memory and draws it onto a canvas. The work happens on your own machine. No copy is transmitted, because this site is a set of static files with no server behind it capable of receiving one.

The practical consequences: it works with no internet connection once the page has loaded, there is no file size limit beyond your own memory, there is no queue, nothing is retained on anyone's disk afterwards, and your photographs are not passing through a third party's infrastructure.

You do not have to take that on trust. The about page lists every network request this site makes, read live from your own browser.