Free tool

Remove photo metadata

A phone photo often carries the exact place it was taken, the date, the device and sometimes its serial number. Before posting it on your site or sending it, see what it reveals and get a clean copy.

Your photos are read and cleaned by your browser: they never leave your computer or phone. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is kept.

What a photo can reveal

GPS

Where it was taken

Phones record the location to within a few metres. On a photo taken at home, at a shelter or at a client's, that is an address.

The most sensitive item: removed first.

EXIF

When and with what

Date and time, phone or camera model, lens, settings, and sometimes the owner's name and serial number, which links all photos from the same device.

Harmless for a landscape, less so for a person.

Thumbnail

The hidden copy

Many files contain a small version of the photo. Cropping or blurring the image in some apps does not always update it.

The tool shows it, then removes it.

XMP and IPTC blocks can also hold an author, a place name, keywords, the edit history, and even named face regions (Lightroom, Photos).

Lossless cleaning

The tool does not recompress the image: it removes the metadata blocks and keeps the pixels exactly as they are. Two things are kept on purpose: the orientation, without which a portrait photo would appear lying down, and, if you leave the box ticked, the colour profile, which contains no personal information.

Data added after the image in some phone photos (motion photo, depth map, HDR gain map) is also removed: the photo stays a normal still image.

HEIC (iPhone) cannot be cleaned without re-encoding. If your browser can display it, the tool converts it to JPEG, which drops all metadata.

Good habits

  1. Turn off location in the cameraiPhone: Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services › Camera › Never. Android: Camera app settings › Location tags.
  2. When sharing from an iPhoneTap “Options” at the top of the share sheet and turn off “Location”.
  3. Know what platforms doFacebook and Instagram remove GPS data from published photos; email, WordPress and most file transfers keep everything.