Remove EXIF and location data from a photo
See what your photo gives away about you — GPS coordinates, device, timestamp — then delete it in one click. With no quality loss, in your browser, with no upload.
Drag your images here, or choose files
JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC. Your browser reads the files — we never send them anywhere, and we never see them.
What does a phone photo carry with it?
An ordinary smartphone photo is not just pixels. EXIF travels alongside it: the GPS coordinates to within metres, the make and model of the device, the lens, the serial number of the body, the exact time to the second, and often an embedded thumbnail too.
That thumbnail is the most common surprise. The device saves it when the photo is taken — so if you crop or redact something afterwards, the thumbnail may still show the original. This is not theory: press photos and classified ads have been giving away what the uploader covered up for years.
Why does the image quality not drop?
Most online EXIF removers open the image and save it again. That does get rid of the metadata — in exchange for recompressing the photo, so every removal degrades the quality a little, usually without anyone mentioning it.
This tool never opens the image. It walks the structure of the file, throws away the metadata blocks, and copies the rest across unchanged. A JPEG's compressed image data, a PNG's IDAT stream and a WebP's image chunk stay bit-for-bit what they were — so the pixels cannot change either. The only exceptions are HEIC, which has to be converted to JPG, and the „keep the orientation" option; we label both on the row they happen to.
Your coordinates never leave your machine
For a metadata remover it would be particularly perverse if the file were uploaded somewhere: you would be handing over exactly what you wanted rid of. Here both the reading and the rewriting happen in your browser, on a background thread. There is no server in this step, and our analytics see nothing beyond how many files the operation ran on — we never send a single field value anywhere.
We deliberately draw no map next to the coordinates. Fetching a map tile would send a third party precisely the data this page helps you delete.
Frequently asked questions
Do you really not upload my photo?
No. Both the inspection and the removal run in your browser. Nothing is uploaded unless you click „Share with a link" yourself.
Do social networks not strip this themselves?
The big platforms usually do — but only for the public rendering, and only after they already have the data. A photo shared by email, in a message, in a cloud folder or on a classifieds site still carries everything.
Why is my photo on its side after the removal?
Because the orientation is an EXIF field too. If you took the photo with the phone turned sideways, the file really is stored rotated, and a flag tells the viewer what to do with it. Switch on „Keep the orientation": we then bake the rotation into the pixels — which does mean a re-encode.
What happens to HEIC files?
HEIC keeps its metadata in an internal reference table that cannot be cut out losslessly. So we convert those to JPG — which in turn guarantees nothing is left, because the new file is written from scratch.
How many images can I add at once?
Twenty. Not because of a server — there is no server in this step — but because a phone cannot hold more in memory at once. Finished images can be downloaded as a ZIP.