Remove photo metadata
See the location, camera and other details hidden in a photo, then save a copy without them. The picture itself stays exactly the same.
- Free, no sign-up
- Files stay on your device
- JPG, PNG or WebP / up to 25 MB
Step by step
How to remove metadata from a photo
Step 1: Drop a JPG, PNG or WebP photo on the box above, or select Choose file.
Step 2: Read the list under What this photo carries: location, camera, date taken and anything else stored with the picture.
Step 3: Select Remove metadata, then Download photo. The new file has the same pixels and none of those details.
What a photo can give away
Phones and cameras store details next to the picture, in blocks called EXIF, XMP and IPTC. The most sensitive is the GPS position: a photo taken at home can show where you live, often to within a few metres. Others are the camera make, model and serial number, the date and time it was taken, the editing app, and sometimes the owner's name.
Some details are less obvious. Many photos carry a small preview image, which editing apps do not always update, so it can show the picture before a crop. XMP data often records editing history and keywords. Newer phones add extra image data after the photo, such as an HDR or depth map.
Many social networks remove these details when you post a photo, but email, chat apps sending files as documents, cloud links and website uploads usually keep them. Removing them yourself means you do not have to rely on each service.
Same pixels, smaller file
The tool does not open and re-save the picture. It copies the image data byte for byte and leaves out the blocks that hold metadata, so there is no loss of quality and the file only gets smaller by the size of what was removed. Our tests decode the photo before and after and compare every pixel.
Two things stay on purpose. The colour profile tells screens how to show the colours, and without it a photo from a recent phone can look dull. The rotation tells viewers which way is up; it is written back on its own, so a photo taken with the phone turned does not appear sideways.
What we found in a real photo
We checked a public-domain photo of oak leaves from Wikimedia Commons (5.4 MB, 3720 × 2790). It still carried the camera model, a Panasonic DMC-FZ1000, the camera's serial number, the date and time it was taken in May 2018, the name of the editing app, a preview image, and XMP and IPTC blocks. Removing them made the file 22,958 bytes smaller, and every pixel matched the original (measured 29 Oct 2026). It had no GPS position; phone photos often do.