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Remove EXIF Data and Photo Metadata Online
The Tools Kit’s free EXIF Remover strips the hidden metadata out of a photo before you share it. Photos from phones and cameras carry EXIF data: the camera make and model, the date and time, shooting settings, and, if location access was on, the GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken. Add a photo above to see a summary of its basic EXIF tags, then remove them all and download a clean copy.
Everything happens in your browser. The photo is not uploaded anywhere, so the location data you are trying to remove is never sent to a server in the first place.
Documents carry metadata too. Before sharing a PDF, the PDF metadata editor lets you view and change its title, author, subject and keywords, also without uploading the file.
How to Remove EXIF Data From a Photo
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Add your photo
Click the upload area or drag a photo onto it. JPG photos from phones and cameras are the files most likely to carry EXIF data.
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Check the metadata summary
The tool lists the basic EXIF tags it finds in a JPEG, such as camera make, camera model, orientation and the date/time stamp, or tells you no EXIF metadata was found.
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Remove the EXIF data
Click Remove EXIF Data. The photo is redrawn on a canvas in your browser and re-encoded as a new JPEG at 95% quality, which carries no metadata.
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Download the clean copy
Click Download Clean Copy to save the file, named with a no-exif_ prefix so you can tell it apart from the original.
There is no account and no limit. To clean another photo, click Clear and add the next one.
How the EXIF Remover Strips Metadata
Instead of editing the file’s tags one by one, the tool draws your photo onto an HTML canvas and saves the canvas as a brand-new JPEG at 95% quality. A canvas holds only pixels, so nothing from the original file comes along: EXIF tags, GPS coordinates, and other metadata blocks such as XMP and IPTC are all left behind. The clean copy keeps the same width and height in pixels.
The trade-off is a small amount of JPEG recompression, which is rarely visible at 95% quality. The output is always a JPEG, so a PNG or WebP you add comes back as a .jpg and loses any transparency. If you need the file smaller as well, run the clean copy through the Image Compressor, or reduce its dimensions with the Image Resizer.
What the EXIF Viewer Shows
Before removing anything, the tool checks JPEG files for EXIF data and shows the basic tags it finds, typically the camera make, camera model, orientation, and the date/time stamp written by the camera or phone. It is a quick check rather than a full EXIF inspector: it does not list every tag, and it does not display GPS coordinates, even though those are removed along with everything else.
If the summary says no EXIF metadata was found, the photo may already be clean. Screenshots, images exported from editing apps, and photos saved from social media often carry none. PNG and WebP files are not parsed for EXIF at all. iPhone HEIC photos only open in browsers that can display HEIC, such as Safari, so elsewhere convert them first with the HEIC to JPG converter.
Why Remove EXIF Data Before Sharing Photos
A photo taken at home with location services on can reveal your address to anyone who downloads the original file. Some large social platforms strip metadata on upload, but email attachments, cloud-storage links, messaging apps that send the original file, forums, and online marketplaces may pass it along untouched. Removing EXIF data first means you do not have to rely on each service to do it for you.
Metadata is not the only thing a photo can give away. Street signs, house numbers, or documents in the background are part of the picture itself, so crop them out with the Image Cropper before sharing. If you publish your own work, removing EXIF also removes any ownership details stored in it, so consider adding a visible mark with the Image Watermark Tool.
Common uses
- Stripping GPS location from a photo before posting it on a forum, blog, or marketplace listing
- Checking which camera or phone details a photo contains before emailing it
- Cleaning product or property photos before sending them to clients or vendors
- Removing the date/time stamp and device details from photos shared publicly
- Turning a photo into a clean JPEG for an upload form; to convert transparent images with a proper background instead, use PNG to JPG
More free tools for resizing, converting, and editing photos are collected under Image Tools.
Photo metadata terms explained
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| EXIF | Exchangeable Image File Format: a block of tags that cameras and phones write inside a photo file, such as the camera model, settings and date |
| Metadata | Data about the photo rather than the picture itself; EXIF is the most common kind in JPEG files |
| GPS tags | Optional EXIF fields holding the latitude and longitude where the photo was taken, written when a phone camera has location access |
| Orientation tag | An EXIF value telling apps how to rotate the image for display, common on phone photos taken sideways |
| XMP / IPTC | Other metadata formats used by editing software and news agencies for captions, credits and keywords |
| Re-encoding | Decoding the photo to raw pixels and saving it again as a brand-new file, which leaves every metadata block behind |
Frequently Asked Questions
Add the photo to the EXIF Remover, click Remove EXIF Data, then click Download Clean Copy. The tool redraws the image on a canvas in your browser and saves it as a new JPEG at 95% quality, and that new file contains no EXIF data.
Yes. GPS coordinates are stored as EXIF tags, and the clean copy is a freshly encoded JPEG built from the pixels alone, so no location data is carried over. Note that the metadata summary does not display GPS coordinates; it shows basic tags such as camera make, model, orientation and date/time.
No. Reading the metadata and re-encoding the image both happen in your browser with JavaScript and an HTML canvas. The photo never leaves your device, which matters for a file that may contain the location where it was taken.
For JPEG files, the viewer reads the main EXIF block and shows the basic tags it finds, typically camera make, camera model, orientation and the date/time stamp. It is a quick summary rather than a full EXIF inspector, so it does not list every tag or show GPS coordinates. PNG, WebP and other formats are not parsed and will show no EXIF metadata.
Many images have none: screenshots, images saved by editing apps, photos downloaded from social media, and most PNG files. The viewer also only parses JPEG files, so a PNG or WebP will always report no EXIF metadata. You can still click Remove EXIF Data to produce a clean JPEG copy.
Slightly. The clean copy is a new JPEG saved at 95% quality, so there is a small amount of recompression, usually not visible to the eye. The pixel dimensions stay the same. It is not a lossless operation that only deletes the tags.
Always a JPEG with a .jpg extension, whatever you uploaded. A PNG or WebP upload is converted to JPEG during the removal step, and any transparent areas are lost because JPEG has no transparency.
Yes, but the result is a JPEG. Any image your browser can display is redrawn and saved as a metadata-free JPEG. Transparent backgrounds do not survive the conversion and typically turn black, so this is best suited to photos rather than logos or graphics with transparency.
Only in a browser that can display HEIC images, such as Safari. In other browsers, convert the photo to JPG first and then remove the metadata from the JPG.
In current browsers, yes. Browsers apply the EXIF orientation tag when they draw a photo, so the canvas copy is saved the way the photo displays, upright, even though the orientation tag itself is removed.
No. The tool handles one photo at a time. Click Clear after downloading a clean copy and add the next photo. There is no limit on how many photos you process.
Reviewed by Raja Jahangir · Last reviewed: October 7, 2026
How do you remove EXIF data from a photo?
To remove EXIF data, upload a photo, check the summary of basic tags found in a JPEG (such as camera make, model, orientation and the date/time stamp), then click Remove EXIF Data and download the clean copy. The photo is re-encoded as a JPEG at 95% quality in your browser, which discards every metadata field, including GPS location.
Does removing EXIF data also remove GPS location?
Yes. GPS coordinates are stored inside the same EXIF block as camera settings, so re-encoding the image through a canvas strips location data along with everything else. The pixels themselves are unchanged apart from a fresh JPEG save at 95% quality, so the photo looks identical but carries no embedded metadata.