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Image Metadata Remover Instantly

View and strip EXIF data, GPS coordinates, and other metadata from your images. All processing is done locally in your browser—your photos never leave your device.

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Drop your image here or click to browse

Supports JPEG and PNG images

How it works

1. Upload Image

Drag and drop or click to upload a JPEG or PNG image. The file stays in your browser and is never sent to any server.

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2. Review Metadata

See all EXIF tags including camera info, GPS coordinates, dates, and software details. GPS data is highlighted in red for easy identification.

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3. Download Clean Image

Click "Remove Metadata" to strip all embedded data, then download the clean image. The Canvas API re-encodes the image without any metadata.

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What Is Image Metadata and What Does This Tool Do About It?

Image metadata is the hidden information a camera or phone writes into a photo file alongside the pixels. The most common form is EXIF — Exchangeable Image File Format — which records the camera make and model, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, the exact date and time of capture, the editing software used, and, on most phones with location services enabled, the GPS coordinates where the shot was taken. None of it is visible when you look at the picture, and all of it travels with the file when you email it, upload it, or post it somewhere.

That is a genuine privacy exposure rather than a theoretical one. GPS coordinates can identify a home, a workplace, or a school. Timestamps sketch out a routine. Camera and software fields can tie photos posted in different places to the same device. This tool does two things about it: for JPEG files it parses the embedded EXIF block and shows you, tag by tag, exactly what is in there — with GPS entries highlighted — and then it produces a clean copy of the image with the metadata gone.

The removal method is worth understanding because it shapes what you get back. The image is drawn onto an HTML canvas and exported again from the pixels alone, which means nothing but pixel data survives: EXIF, GPS, XMP, embedded thumbnails, and the ICC color profile all disappear together. It is an all-or-nothing operation with no option to keep selected fields. JPEG output is re-encoded at quality 0.95, which is visually indistinguishable in normal use but is still a lossy pass, so you should always keep your original master. PNG output is re-encoded losslessly. Every step, from parsing to export, runs inside your browser — the file is never uploaded anywhere.

Key Features and Benefits

  • See the EXIF before you strip it — For JPEG files the tool walks the APP1 segment, resolves the main image directory along with the EXIF and GPS sub-directories, and lists every tag it recognizes in a readable table showing the field name, its hexadecimal tag ID, and the decoded value. Camera body, lens model, exposure settings, timestamps, software, copyright, and orientation all appear if the file carries them.
  • GPS called out clearly — Location tags are highlighted with a red tint and a location icon in the table, and the sidebar summary states plainly whether GPS data is present and how many location tags were found. You do not have to hunt through a long list to discover whether a photo is telling people where you were.
  • Complete removal in one pass — Because the clean file is exported from the canvas pixels, there is no metadata segment left to leak. Everything non-pixel goes at once — EXIF, GPS, XMP, editing history, embedded preview thumbnails, and the ICC profile. There is no selective mode and no partial retention, which makes the outcome easy to predict.
  • High-quality export — JPEG files are re-encoded at quality 0.95, high enough that the result is visually identical for sharing, publishing, and archiving purposes. PNG files are re-encoded losslessly, so their pixels come back bit-for-bit intact while the ancillary chunks that carried metadata are dropped.
  • Before and after at a glance — The sidebar shows the original file name, size, dimensions, and type, then adds the cleaned file size and a confirmation once processing finishes. The metadata table stays on screen labelled as the pre-removal state, so you can see what was in the file and what you are now downloading without it.
  • Nothing leaves your device — Parsing and stripping both happen locally using the File API and the Canvas API. This is the whole point of a client-side tool for this job: uploading a photo to a remote service in order to hide its location data would mean handing that location data to the service first.

How to Remove Metadata From an Image

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    Upload a JPEG or PNG

    Drag one image onto the upload area or click to browse. The tool works on a single file at a time and accepts JPEG and PNG; formats the browser cannot decode, such as HEIC straight off an iPhone, are rejected with a message suggesting you convert first. The file is read into memory locally and no copy is transmitted.

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    Read what the file is carrying

    For a JPEG, the detected metadata table fills with every EXIF tag found and the sidebar reports the total count plus whether GPS data is present. Scroll the list — the camera and lens rows tell you which device took the shot, the date rows tell you when, and the red-highlighted GPS rows tell you where. PNG files show no EXIF table, since PNG metadata lives in chunks this tool does not parse for display.

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    Strip the metadata

    Click Remove Metadata. The image is drawn onto a canvas at its full original dimensions and exported again from the pixels, which leaves no room for any metadata segment to survive. JPEGs come out at quality 0.95 and PNGs come out lossless, and the preview switches to show the cleaned image.

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    Check the result

    The sidebar now reports the cleaned file size next to the original and confirms that metadata was removed. Expect the size to move in either direction: dropping a large embedded thumbnail can shrink the file noticeably, while re-encoding a heavily compressed JPEG at quality 0.95 can make it slightly larger. The table above remains as a record of what the original contained.

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    Download the clean copy

    Click Download Clean Image. The file is saved with a -clean suffix so your original stays untouched on disk. Keep that original somewhere private if you want the capture date, camera settings, or location for your own records, because the cleaned copy has no way to get them back.

Expert Tips for Metadata Privacy

Strip before you upload, not after. Facebook, Instagram, and X all remove EXIF GPS data from the copies they serve publicly, which is often mistaken for a privacy guarantee. It is not one: the platform read that data on the way in and stored what it wanted before removing it from the public file. If your concern includes the platform itself and not only other viewers, the coordinates have to be gone before the file ever reaches their servers. The same logic rules out browser-based tools that upload your photo to a backend to process it, which is precisely why this one does the work in your tab.

Treat the cleaned file as a derivative, never as your master. Removal here is all-or-nothing by design, so there is no way to hold on to a copyright notice, a creator credit, an orientation flag, or the capture date while dropping the location. Keep the original in a private folder and share only the clean export. Two consequences of the canvas re-encode are worth planning around: the JPEG pass is lossy, so run it once at the end of your editing pipeline rather than repeatedly, and the ICC color profile is removed along with everything else, which means a wide-gamut photo will be interpreted as sRGB downstream and may shift in color. For web and messaging that is a non-issue; for print or color-managed design work, strip metadata from the delivery copy rather than the working file.

Know the format differences and verify when it matters. JPEG is the format this tool inspects in detail, because that is where cameras and phones put EXIF; PNG files still get fully cleaned by the re-encode, but they will show an empty metadata table rather than a list of what was removed. Screenshots and images exported from design tools usually carry little or no EXIF to begin with, so an empty table is a normal result rather than a parsing failure. And if the stakes are high — a photo tied to someone's safety rather than general tidiness — confirm the cleaned file independently with a dedicated metadata inspector such as ExifTool before you send it. Verifying takes a minute, and unlike a share, it can be repeated.

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Metadata removal fits naturally at the end of an image pipeline, just before you share. Convert anything the browser cannot read into JPEG or PNG, resize it to the dimensions you actually publish at, compress it if size matters, and strip the metadata last so nothing you did along the way reintroduces hidden data into the file you hand out. Because each JPEG export costs a little quality, doing it in that order keeps the number of re-encodes down. Every one of these tools runs entirely in your browser, so the photo and everything hidden inside it stay on your device from start to finish.

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