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Remove EXIF data, without the upload.

Take the camera details, the GPS location and the descriptions out of a picture before you send it or post it. Photos with a location in them stay on your device.

  • Free, no sign-up
  • Picture not re-compressed
  • Colours and rotation kept

Drop a picture to remove its EXIF data

or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V

Ready · JPG, PNG and WebP · several at once0 bytes uploaded, ever

How to remove EXIF data from a picture

  1. Add your pictures

    Drop them above or choose them. There is nothing to set.

  2. Remove the data

    The line under the files says what goes and what stays. Press Remove EXIF data.

  3. Save the clean copy

    Each result is your file's name with -clean added. Put it next to the original: the picture is the same.

What stays and what doesn't

The picture, its colour profile, the note about which way up it is and its print resolution stay. This is the list of everything the tool can remove, and the row of the result names the ones your file really had. The colour profile and the print resolution are on the list for the rare file whose only copy of them sat inside the camera block:

  • camera details
  • location
  • descriptions
  • embedded preview
  • content credentials
  • the colour profile
  • the print resolution
  • extra data

When it won't run

Two things stop a run before it writes anything, and each is said on the file's row. A file that cannot be read is reported as damaged, and a picture too large for this device says so, with the limit. In both cases nothing is changed and your original stays as it was. A file in a format the page does not take, such as a GIF, gets a sentence instead of a row.

  • The picture is an animation. This tool would keep only the first frame, so it leaves the file alone.
  • The picture is saved in a JPEG variant that browsers can't open, so nothing was changed.
  • The picture has no camera details, location or descriptions to remove, so it's unchanged.

Removing EXIF data: what to expect

Camera pictures carry a block of facts called EXIF: the make and model of the camera or phone, the exposure, the date and time, often a serial number, and the GPS position where the picture was taken. The same file can also hold a title, an author and keywords, comments, a small preview picture, content credentials such as an edit history, and extra data such as a motion-photo clip. PNG and WebP keep the same sort of facts in chunks of their own. This page removes all of it.

Nothing is decoded. The tool reads the structure of the file and writes it out again with only the parts that make up the picture. In a JPEG the picture data is repacked, and in a PNG or a WebP the parts that hold pixels are copied as they are. The picture is not re-compressed, so it has the same pixels, only a different arrangement of the same data, and a JPEG may come out as a progressive file that looks identical.

Three things are kept on purpose, because the picture would look wrong without them: the colour profile, the note about which way up the picture is, and the print resolution. The note and the resolution say nothing about you or your camera. A colour profile describes colours, and most are the standard ones that every device shares, but a profile made for one particular screen or scanner can carry the name of that device, and it is kept as it is. In the rare case that the only colour information was a colour-space hint inside the camera block, that hint goes with the block, and the row says so.

Cleaning the file does not change what the picture shows. A face, a street sign, a screen or a name badge stays in view, and the file's name is kept with -clean added, so check both before you share. A file with nothing to remove comes back unchanged, and the row says it was already clean.

The work happens in your device's memory. Because nothing is decoded, a JPEG or WebP can have up to 80 megapixels and a PNG up to 100 on a computer, and a phone is limited to 32 megapixels. A picture over the limit is refused on its own row and nothing is changed.

Questions

Are my pictures uploaded?

No. Your pictures are processed inside your browser, on your own phone or computer, and saved straight from this page. The reading at the top of the page counts every byte sent, and it stays at 0 B.

What is EXIF data?

Facts that a camera or an app writes inside the picture file: the device, the settings, the date, and often the GPS position. Other kinds of data can sit beside it, such as a title or author in XMP or IPTC, comments, and the edit history that content credentials record.

Does it change the picture?

No. The pixels are the same, because the picture is not decoded or compressed again. Only the data around it is taken out, and a JPEG is repacked, which can change how its bytes are arranged and not what it shows.

Is the GPS location really gone?

Yes. The location is removed from the camera block and from XMP text, and the result row lists it when the tool could read one in your file. The place can still be recognised by what the picture shows, so look at the picture too.

Why is the colour profile kept?

A picture saved in a wide colour space looks dull without its profile. It describes colours. Most profiles are the standard ones that every device shares, but one made for a particular screen or scanner can carry the name of that device, and it stays as it is. The same goes for the note about which way up the picture is, which a photo needs to look right, and the print resolution.

Is this the same as Compress image?

No. Compress image makes the file smaller and saves it again, and it also leaves out metadata on the way. This page changes nothing about the picture and removes more kinds of data, and it does not aim at a smaller file.

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