Remove Metadata
Remove Metadata reads the hidden tags stored inside a JPG, PNG or WebP — camera model, timestamp, and often the exact GPS coordinates where the shot was taken — shows you what is there, and rewrites the file without them. The picture itself is copied unchanged, so nothing is re-compressed.
Your image stays on your device.
The file is read and rewritten in this tab. That matters more here than on most tools: the tags this page displays — including the coordinates of where a photo was taken — are exactly the kind of thing that should not be sent to a server in order to be deleted.
Learn how files are processed →- Input
- JPG · PNG · WebP
- Removes
- EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, comments
- Image data
- Copied unchanged, never re-encoded
- Processing
- In-browser container rewrite
How to use Remove Metadata
- 01Upload
Add your image
Drop in a JPG, PNG or WebP. The file is read in this tab and nothing is uploaded.
- 02Customize
See what's inside
The tool lists every tag it found, with location data called out first.
- 03Process
Remove and download
Strip the tags and save the clean file. The image data is byte-for-byte identical.
What is Remove Metadata?
Every photo taken on a phone or camera carries a block of text alongside the picture. It records the make and model of the device, the lens, the shutter speed and aperture, the exact date and time, and — if location services were on — the latitude and longitude accurate to a few metres.
None of it is visible when you look at the image. It travels with the file, so a photo sent by email or posted to a site that does not strip it can tell a stranger which house it was taken in and what phone took it.
Remove Metadata shows you exactly which of those tags your file contains before it changes anything, then writes a copy without them.
Supported formats
- JPG
- PNG
- WebP
- GIF
- BMP
- Maximum file size —
- bounded by your device's memory
- Processed by —
- a direct rewrite of the file, on your device — the image data is never re-encoded
Limitations
Worth knowing before you start, rather than after.
- Removing metadata does not remove anything visible in the picture itself, including a face, a street sign or a screen.
- Some sites strip metadata on upload anyway, and some add their own afterwards.
Why this tool does not re-save your photo
The obvious way to strip metadata in a browser is to draw the image onto a canvas and export it again. The canvas has no concept of EXIF, so the tags vanish. Almost every browser-based tool does exactly this, and it has a cost nobody mentions: the export re-compresses the picture. A JPEG saved at high quality comes back slightly softer, with fresh compression artefacts, because it has now been through the encoder twice.
That is a bad trade. You came to delete a GPS coordinate, not to lose image quality.
A JPEG is really a sequence of labelled segments — some describe the compression, one very large one holds the actual encoded pixels, and separate ones hold EXIF, XMP and IPTC metadata. A PNG is the same idea with chunks, and a WebP with RIFF containers. The metadata lives in specific, clearly marked blocks, which means it can simply be left out when the file is written back. Everything else, including the compressed image data, is copied across verbatim.
The result is a file whose picture is bit-for-bit what it was. You can confirm this yourself: strip a photo, then compare the output against the original in any tool that shows pixel differences, and there will be none.
One block is deliberately kept. An ICC colour profile also lives in a metadata segment, but it is not information about you — it tells the display how to interpret the colours. Removing it makes images look washed out or oversaturated on wide-gamut screens, so it stays unless you ask for it to go.
Your file, and what the page does
Your file is never uploaded. Remove Metadata reads it into this browser tab and processes it with pdf-lib on your own device. There is no upload endpoint in the application and no copy on any server — closing the tab discards it.
What the page does send or fetch
- Ads on the page
- The site is funded by advertising, so the page loads Google AdSense. That carries the usual web basics — IP address, browser, referring page — as on any ad-supported site.
- An anonymous usage counter
- When Remove Metadata finishes we record that the tool ran, whether it succeeded and how long it took. No file data, no identifier, no cookie.
Your file is not on that list. How this works.
Frequently asked questions
EXIF is a block of information cameras write into image files: make and model, lens, exposure settings, the date and time, and — on phones with location services enabled — the latitude and longitude of the shot.
No. This tool rewrites the file's container without the metadata blocks and copies the compressed image data across untouched. The pixels are identical to the original, unlike tools that re-save the photo and re-compress it.
Yes. Latitude, longitude and any altitude or direction tags are inside the EXIF block, and removing that block removes all of them. The tool shows you the coordinates first so you can confirm they were there.
Most large platforms do strip EXIF when they process an upload, but not all of them, and it does not help with files you email, message or share as an attachment — which is where the original file travels intact.
Slightly smaller, by exactly the size of the removed blocks — usually a few kilobytes, occasionally more if the file held an embedded thumbnail or a large editing history.
No, not by default. An ICC colour profile describes how the stored numbers map to real colours, and deleting it can visibly shift the image on wide-gamut screens. It is not personal information, so it is kept unless you choose otherwise.
Yes — Remove Metadata is completely free. There's no account, sign-up, watermark or limit.
No. It runs in any modern browser — Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Brave — with nothing to download or install.
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