Remove Metadata
Strip EXIF, GPS and camera data from a photo.
Runs in your browser, nothing is uploadedFree, no signupNo watermark
Drop an image here
or click to choose one. It never leaves your device.
Three steps
How to use the remove metadata
- 01
Drop in a photo
Add any image that has been through a camera or a phone.
- 02
Strip the hidden data
The image is decoded and re-encoded cleanly, so no EXIF block survives.
- 03
Download the clean file
The picture is identical, the hidden data is gone.
Why this one
What makes it different
Removes GPS, not just the camera name
The field that matters most is location, which phones write by default and which pins a photo to an address.
Re-encoded, not edited
The file is rebuilt from decoded pixels rather than having tags deleted, so nothing is left hiding in a segment a tag editor missed.
Never leaves your device
Uploading a photo to a server to remove its location data is self-defeating, and this runs entirely in the tab.
How this tool handles your files
- Where it runs
- Your browser, not a server
- Uploads
- None, ever
- Account
- Not required
- Watermark
- Never added
The short version
About remove metadata
Every photograph taken on a phone carries a hidden record of where and when it was taken, and most people find that out when someone points it out. Selling something online, posting a picture of a pet in a garden, or emailing a photo from home are all ordinary acts that quietly ship an address along with the image.
Questions
Remove Metadata FAQ
What is stored in image metadata?
Camera make and model, lens, exposure settings, the date and time to the second, software used, and on most phones the GPS coordinates where the photo was taken.
Do social networks already strip EXIF?
Most large platforms do on upload, but not all, and it does not help for a photo emailed, messaged, or posted to a marketplace or forum. Those are exactly the cases where the location leaks.
Does removing metadata change the image?
The visible picture is unchanged. Because the file is re-encoded, a JPEG will be recompressed once, which is not noticeable at high quality.
Can removed metadata be recovered?
Not from the new file. The output is written from the decoded pixels, so there is no original block left to retrieve.
Free, and staying free
The tools are free because the icons are the business.
Thridy is a library of thousands of 3D icons in one consistent style, free for commercial use with no attribution and no account. The tools exist so you never have to upload an image to somebody else's server to resize it.
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