EXIF Remover

Remove EXIF and other metadata from photos — without re-encoding

Photos carry much more than pixels. A phone picture usually stores the camera model, the exact time it was taken and often the GPS coordinates of where you stood; edited files add software names and edit histories, and AI image generators write the full prompt into PNG text chunks. This EXIF remover deletes all of it from JPG, PNG and WebP files so you can share them safely.

Unlike tools that redraw the picture and save a new JPEG, this one works at the byte level: it cuts the metadata blocks out of the file and copies the compressed image data across untouched. Quality is identical, the file just gets smaller. Each cleaned file is then re-read with the open-source exifr library to prove nothing is left, and the compressed pixel data is compared byte for byte with the original. Everything runs in your browser — the photos are never uploaded.

How to use the EXIF Remover

1. Drop one or more JPG, PNG or WebP files onto the upload area, or click it to choose them.
2. Check the badges on each file: GPS location, camera, date, serial number, XMP, IPTC, thumbnail or AI prompt.
3. Open “What was found and removed” to see the details, including a map link for any location, and the list of removed blocks with their sizes.
4. Choose how to handle rotated phone photos — keep the orientation tag (lossless) or rotate the pixels — and whether to keep the colour profile.
5. Download each clean file, or press “Download clean files” to get them all in one ZIP.

EXIF Remover features

What is removed and what is kept

Orientation: keep the tag or rotate the pixels?

Phones and cameras usually save the pixels the way the sensor sees them and add an EXIF Orientation tag such as “rotate 90° clockwise”. Viewers read the tag and turn the picture upright. If a remover deleted that tag along with everything else, portrait photos would suddenly show sideways.

Keep orientation tag (the default) writes back a tiny EXIF block containing only that one value — no camera, date or location — so the result stays lossless. Rotate the pixels redraws a rotated JPEG upright and saves it at about its original quality (between 85 and 95), leaving no EXIF at all; this re-encodes the image and converts it to sRGB, so use it only when a strict system rejects any EXIF. Photos that are already upright are never re-encoded.

Where metadata hides

To inspect a photo without changing it, open it in the EXIF Viewer. If you only want to remove the location and keep the camera details, use the GPS Metadata Remover. iPhone HEIC photos can be converted with HEIC to JPG, and the result carries no metadata.

• Thumbnails: many cameras embed a small preview in EXIF. Some editors update the main image but not the thumbnail, so a cropped photo can still contain the uncropped original.
• AI-generated images: Stable Diffusion web UIs save the prompt, seed and model in a PNG text chunk called “parameters”, and ComfyUI stores its whole workflow. Remove them before sharing if the prompt is private.
• Trailing data: some phones append depth maps, extra previews or maker data after the end of a JPEG. Viewers ignore it, but it is still in the file.
• XMP: Lightroom, Photoshop and phone galleries write edit history, ratings, keywords and sometimes a second copy of the GPS position here.