Remove Photo Metadata (EXIF & GPS)

How to remove metadata from a photo

1. Drop one or more JPG, PNG or WebP files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. A screenshot can be pasted straight in.
2. Read the report under the list. For each file it shows the camera, the dates, the software and any names or captions stored inside, and a red warning with the coordinates when the photo records where it was taken.
3. Choose whether to keep the colour profile and, if a photo was saved sideways, how it should stay the right way up.
4. Press Remove metadata. A single photo downloads as name-clean.jpg (or .png, .webp); several arrive together in one ZIP. Each report then shows the size before and after, and confirms that the cleaned copy was read again and found empty.

What people use it for

A phone camera that has permission to use your location writes it into every picture, precisely enough to point at a particular building, and that position travels with the file. Several big social networks remove it when you post. A photo sent as a file usually keeps it: an email attachment, a cloud-drive link, a picture sent "as a document" in a messaging app, or an upload to a small forum or classifieds site.

• Selling a sofa, a bike or a car with pictures taken outside your own front door.
• Sending photos to someone you have only just met through a dating app.
• Posting on a hobby forum or a local marketplace that shows images exactly as uploaded.
• Sharing pictures of your children, your home or your garden beyond close family.
• Passing on work photos without the camera's serial number or the owner's name.

Good to know

The hidden blocks are cut out of the file byte by byte. The picture itself is never decoded or saved again, so a cleaned JPG is exactly as sharp as the original and only loses the weight of what was removed. That is also why sideways photos need a decision: many phones store the pixels on their side and rely on a small tag to turn them upright. The default keeps that single tag and nothing else; the alternative redraws the pixels upright, at a very slight cost in quality. Extra material some phones hide after the main picture, such as a depth map, a motion clip or an HDR brightness layer, is removed too, so those photos become ordinary stills. Faces and number plates are a different problem: Blur & Censor covers them, and Crop Image can trim away a street sign in the corner.

None of this involves a server. The report and the cleaning both run inside this tab, and neither your photos nor the coordinates found in them are sent anywhere. iPhone HEIC files are not accepted here; turn them into JPG with HEIC to JPG and drop the result in to check it.

Questions people ask

Does removing metadata lower the quality of my photo?

No. Only the blocks of text and numbers around the picture are taken out; the image data is copied across unchanged. The one exception is the optional "turn the pixels upright" setting for sideways photos, which saves the picture again.

How can I be sure the location has gone?

Every cleaned copy is scanned again before it is offered to you, and its report only confirms the result when nothing that should be gone turns up. For extra peace of mind, drop the downloaded file back onto this page and the report will come up empty.

Why do some of my photos show no location at all?

Either location access was switched off for the camera, the photo is a screenshot, or it already passed through an app that removed it. The report only lists what is actually stored in the file.

Can I keep the date and remove only the location?

Not here. The tool removes everything in one go, which is the safer default when a file is about to leave your hands. If you need the date later, make a note of it from the report before you clean the photo.