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 your photos are carrying
EXIF data is written by the camera and travels with the file. Most of it is harmless; some of it is not.
- GPS coordinates
Where the photo was taken, often to within a few metres. Phones record this by default, and it is the field that matters most.
- Date and time
Exactly when the shutter opened. Enough to establish a timeline of someone's movements across a set of photos.
- Device and settings
Camera or phone model, lens, serial number in some cases, and every exposure setting. Useful for photographers, identifying for everyone else.
The before and after is data, not pixels
Stripping metadata does not touch a single pixel. The image before and after is the same image — which is precisely why this tool needs explaining rather than showing.
Metadata occupies real space, especially where a camera embedded a full-size preview thumbnail. Removing it can shrink the file measurably without re-encoding anything.
What stripping metadata cannot do
It cannot remove what is in the picture — A street sign, a house number or a reflection identifies a location just as well as a GPS tag. Look at the image, not only its data.
It cannot undo what was already shared — Copies already sent or uploaded still carry everything. This protects the file you strip, from now on.
It does not stop the next platform adding its own — Services attach their own identifiers on upload. Most strip EXIF, but that is their choice, not a guarantee.
It does not anonymise the photograph — Faces, tattoos and distinctive interiors are not metadata. Blur or crop them if that is the concern.
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
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.
Not sure this is what you need?
- Strip location and camera dataRemove Metadata
- Something in the picture must be hiddenBlur Image
- It could be cropped out insteadCrop Image
- The file is too largeCompress Image
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