Remove Image Metadata
Strip EXIF, including the GPS location a photo was taken at.
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.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp, .gif, .bmp, .avif · they stay on this device
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Questions about what this tool does, which option to pick, or what it can and cannot handle.
The question you type here is sent to an AI provider to be answered — your files and whatever you put in the tool above are not, and the assistant cannot see them. Answers are generated and can be wrong. The tool itself is not guessing: it runs deterministic code on your device.
About the Remove Image Metadata
Removing metadata from a photograph before publishing it is a small habit that closes a real exposure. The file that leaves your camera carries the device, the settings, the timestamp, sometimes a serial number, and frequently the coordinates of wherever you were standing.
This strips all of it. The image is decoded and re-encoded from the pixels alone, so nothing from the original container survives — not the EXIF block, not the maker notes, not the embedded thumbnail.
That embedded thumbnail is worth singling out, because it has caused genuine incidents. Cameras store a small preview inside the file, and some editing software updates the full image while leaving the thumbnail as it was. A photograph cropped to remove something can retain a thumbnail showing the uncropped original, and anyone who extracts it sees what was cut. Re-encoding from pixels removes that possibility entirely.
What is lost along with it: the orientation tag, which is why this tool applies the rotation to the pixels before stripping, so the image stays the right way up. Also the colour profile, which can shift colours slightly on wide-gamut displays, and the copyright field if you had set one.
The re-encode does mean one more compression cycle for a JPEG. Choose PNG output if the file is going to be edited again, and accept the larger result in exchange for no further loss.
If you want to see what is in a file before deciding, the EXIF viewer on this site shows it without changing anything.
How to use it
- 1Drop in the photographs you are about to publish.
- 2Choose the output format — the same one to keep things simple, or PNG to avoid another compression pass.
- 3Download the cleaned files. Everything from the original container is gone, including the embedded thumbnail.
- 4Check one in the EXIF viewer if you want confirmation that nothing survived.
Questions
- What exactly is removed?
- Everything outside the pixels: EXIF, GPS coordinates, camera and lens details, timestamps, maker notes, the embedded preview thumbnail and any colour profile. The image is rebuilt from its pixels, so nothing from the original container carries over.
- Will my photograph end up sideways?
- No. The orientation tag is applied to the pixels before it is discarded, so the image stays as it appeared. That is the point at which a naive stripper gets it wrong.
- Why does the hidden thumbnail matter?
- Because some editors update the main image and leave the embedded preview untouched. A photograph cropped to hide something can still contain a thumbnail of the original, and extracting it is trivial. Re-encoding eliminates it.
- Does this lose image quality?
- A JPEG goes through one more compression cycle, which is slight but real. Saving as PNG avoids it entirely at the cost of a larger file.