Photo Metadata Remover
Location, dates, camera, serial number, captions and editing history all go. The photo stays upright and keeps its colours.
Originals untouched. To make the clean copies smaller as well, Exact compresses photos on your device.
Remove EXIF data and location from photos — nothing uploaded
Drop in your photos to see what each one gives away — where it was taken, when, and on what. Remove all of it or only the location, and download clean copies.
The short answer
To remove EXIF data from a photo, add it to the tool above, choose Remove everything or Location only, and download the cleaned copy. The location, date, camera model, serial number, captions and editing history are deleted from the file; the picture itself is copied unchanged, so no quality is lost. Everything happens in your browser, so the photo is never uploaded. Do it before posting photos to a marketplace, a forum or a personal site — those keep the hidden data, while most large social networks strip it.
Four steps to a clean photo
Step 1: Add your photos
Drop in one photo or a few hundred. Each is read on your device and listed with what it contains.
Step 2: See what they reveal
Every photo that carries a location shows it in red, with the coordinates written out, beside the date and the camera.
Step 3: Choose what goes
Remove everything, or only the location so the dates still sort your library. You can keep your copyright line.
Step 4: Download clean copies
One photo downloads as it is; a batch comes as a zip. Your originals are never changed.
What a photo says about you
None of this shows when you look at the picture. All of it travels with the file, and anyone you send it to can read it.
| Hidden field | Stored in | What it reveals |
|---|---|---|
| GPS latitude and longitude | EXIF, XMP | Where the photo was taken, usually to within a few metres — a home, a school, a workplace. |
| Date and time taken | EXIF | When you were there, and with a run of photos, your routine. |
| Camera make and model | EXIF | Which phone or camera you own. |
| Body and lens serial number | EXIF, maker notes | A number that ties every photo from that camera together, even across accounts. |
| Software | EXIF, XMP | Which editor touched the picture, and often its version. |
| Artist, copyright, caption, keywords | EXIF, IPTC, XMP | Your name, and anything a program or an agency wrote into the file. |
| Embedded thumbnail | EXIF | A small copy of the picture as first saved — which can show what was cropped out later. |
Remove everything deletes every row above. Location only deletes the first, and leaves the rest so your photos still sort by date.
Where hidden data actually leaks
Marketplaces and forums keep the data
Large social networks strip location when you upload. Classifieds sites, forums, email, messaging apps sending 'as a document', and your own website usually do not. Clean photos of things at home before listing them.
Location only keeps your library sorted
Photo apps sort by the date inside the file. Remove just the location and the photos stay in order; remove everything and they sort by the day you cleaned them.
Check the cropped-out part
A photo can carry a small preview of itself from before it was cropped. Remove everything deletes that too — worth doing for any picture you cropped for a reason.
Screenshots are already clean of location
A screenshot holds no GPS. It can still carry text a program wrote into it, which the tool lists and removes.
Your photos never leave your device
Each photo is opened, read and rewritten by your own browser. There is no upload, because there is no server for it to go to — load the page, turn off Wi-Fi, and it still works. No map is embedded either: fetching map tiles would send a photo's coordinates to someone else before you had decided to.
- No upload, no account, no email
- Originals are never changed
- Picture copied byte for byte — no quality lost
- No map embedded, so coordinates go nowhere
- No ads inside the tool or near Download
Questions people ask
Anything we've missed?
What is EXIF data?
EXIF is information a camera or phone writes into the photo file alongside the picture: the date and time, the make and model, the lens and exposure settings, often a serial number, and — if location was on — the GPS coordinates of where you stood. It is invisible when you look at the photo and readable by anyone you send the file to.
Can someone find my address from a photo?
If the photo carries GPS coordinates, yes: they usually point to within a few metres. Phones add them whenever the camera has location permission. The tool shows the coordinates so you can see exactly what a stranger would.
Do WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook remove location?
Photos sent the normal way through the large social and messaging apps have their location stripped on upload. Photos sent as a document or file, attached to email, posted on many marketplaces and forums, or put on your own website keep everything. When unsure, clean it first.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. Each file is opened, read and rewritten by your own browser, and the cleaned copy is handed straight back to you. There is no server the photos could be sent to — load the page, switch off Wi-Fi, and it still works.
Does removing metadata reduce the photo's quality?
No. The picture itself is copied byte for byte and only the hidden data around it is removed, so the cleaned photo is exactly as sharp as the original and usually a few kilobytes smaller. Tools that redraw the picture to strip it recompress it; this one does not.
Which files does it work with?
JPEG, PNG and WebP. HEIC photos from an iPhone and videos are not supported yet, and the page says so for each such file rather than guessing. On an iPhone, sharing a photo as "Most Compatible" or emailing it to yourself gives a JPEG.
Will my photo turn sideways?
No. A phone stores portrait photos on their side and uses one EXIF tag to stand them up. That orientation tag is the one thing kept when everything else is removed, so the photo looks the same afterwards.
Guides worth reading
- Photos
How to remove the location from a photo before you share it
A photo can carry the GPS coordinates of your home. What is hidden in the file, where it survives, and how to remove it on iPhone, Windows, Mac or in a browser.
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What is EXIF data? What your photos reveal, and how to see it
EXIF is the hidden information a camera writes into every photo: date, camera, settings and often GPS. What each field gives away and how to view or remove it.
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