Remove EXIF Data from Photos

When you select an image, the page reads the file bytes locally and looks for metadata: EXIF (camera, date, GPS), XMP, IPTC, PNG text chunks, colour profiles and comments. When you press the clean button, your browser decodes each image, draws the pixels onto an HTML canvas and encodes a brand new file in the same format. A canvas holds only pixels, so the original metadata blocks are not copied across. The tool then re-reads the new file with the same reader and reports anything it still finds.

• Supported: JPEG, PNG and WebP.
• Not supported: HEIC, GIF, TIFF, AVIF and RAW files are skipped.
• Output names: your original is untouched; the download gets a -clean suffix.

A test JPEG built for this site (not a real person's photo) carries a phone model, a timestamp and GPS coordinates. This is what the tool shows before and after cleaning:

Before: Camera   Acme Phone 9
        Taken    2026-11-08 14:30:05
        GPS      40.44611, -79.98222  (high risk)
        Thumbnail present, Artist "Jane Doe"

After:  No EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC or comment fields found
        Same pixel size, orientation applied to the pixels

The same test file is used in this site's automated checks, which confirm the GPS bytes are present in the original and absent after re-encoding.

• Recompression. JPEG and WebP files are compressed again, which can lower quality a little and change the file size. The quality slider trades size for fidelity. PNG pixels are kept exactly.
• Orientation. Phones often store a photo sideways with an EXIF tag telling viewers to rotate it. This tool asks your browser to apply that orientation when decoding (the default for createImageBitmap, per MDN), so the result should stay upright. If a browser ignores it, a photo could come out sideways; check the result.
• Colour. The original colour profile is not kept, so colours can shift slightly on wide-gamut images. Your browser may write its own standard sRGB profile into the new file; it holds no personal data.
• Animation and HDR. Animated images keep only their first frame and HDR gain maps are dropped.
• Safari and WebP. Some browsers cannot encode WebP; the tool then saves a PNG, which may be larger.
• Not removed. Faces, signs, screens and landmarks in the picture, invisible watermarks, and the file name.

The tool cannot promise every hidden detail is gone. It re-encodes the pixels and checks the result with a reader that does not decode every possible field.

Phone cameras can write the time of capture and, if location access is on, coordinates into every photo. Some platforms strip this on upload and some do not, so a file sent by email, chat, forum or posted on your own site may still carry it. Typical cases for cleaning a copy first: selling something from home, posting a photo of a child, or sending an image to a stranger. To look first, use the file metadata viewer.

1. Choose your images. You can select several at once.
2. Open the metadata list for a file to see what it contains, sorted high to low risk.
3. Pick a quality for JPEG and WebP output and press the remove button.
4. Download each cleaned file and open it to check it before sharing.

Keep your originals if you need the metadata later.