View and remove EXIF data
Every photo you take carries hidden data: where it was taken, when, and with which device. See what is inside your photo and download a clean copy in one click — without the photo ever leaving your device.
Everything happens in your browser. Your photo is never uploaded.
What is stored inside a photo?
With every shot, cameras and phones write so-called EXIF data into the file: date and time, the make and model of the device, exposure settings and — if location services are on — the exact GPS coordinates. Editing software often adds fields of its own on top (XMP, IPTC), up to and including the photographer's name.
Useful for yourself: it is how you know later where and when a photo was taken. But the moment you forward a photo or post it somewhere, that information travels along unseen.
When should you remove metadata?
Mostly for photos that end up outside your trusted circle: a listing on a marketplace, a profile picture, a photo in a public group or on a forum. A photo of your child in the garden, with GPS coordinates attached, gives away your home address too. For those situations you create a metadata-free copy here in one click.
If you share photos within your own circle — family, friends — the metadata is actually valuable: it is what lets your photo platform sort by date and place. Removing it is not an automatism but a choice per situation.
No loss of quality
Many 'EXIF removers' open your photo and save it again, adding an extra round of compression. This tool works differently: it only removes the metadata blocks from the file and leaves the image data untouched. Your clean copy is pixel-for-pixel identical to the original — just a few kilobytes smaller.
Frequently asked questions
Is my photo uploaded?
No. Reading and removing both happen entirely in your browser. Your photo never leaves your device — the GPS location you see here is visible to no one else either.
Does my photo lose quality?
No. The tool only cuts the metadata blocks out of the file and leaves the image data intact, byte for byte. Nothing is re-compressed.
Which files are supported?
JPG and PNG, the two formats almost all photos are shared in. Got a HEIC file from an iPhone? Convert it first with our HEIC-to-JPG converter; that drops the metadata automatically.
Don't WhatsApp and Facebook already remove EXIF data for me?
Large platforms usually strip metadata from the copy that recipients see, but you still send the original to their servers. If you want to be sure your location and camera info end up nowhere, remove them before sending.