EXIF Data Remover

The tool shows you what was hidden in each file, then saves a clean copy. Your original stays untouched.

1. Drop your photos onto the upload area, click it to choose files, or paste an image from the clipboard. Several files can be cleaned together.
2. Choose an Output format: Same as input, JPEG, PNG or WebP.
3. Set the Quality slider between 50 and 100. The default of 92 is visually close to the original for photographs.
4. Click Remove metadata. Under each result you will see what was found and removed.
5. Download each clean picture, or use Download all. The copies are named with "-clean" added.

Before re-saving a picture the tool inspects its JPEG, PNG or WebP container and lists the kinds of metadata it finds: EXIF, XMP, IPTC, an ICC colour profile, and text chunks or comments. It also says whether a GPS location was present and, where available, the camera make and model and the date taken. A typical phone photo might report EXIF plus a GPS position, a phone model and a timestamp, which together can show where and when the picture was taken and on which device. If nothing is found, the note says so and the file is still re-saved clean.

Metadata also covers serial numbers, lens and exposure settings, embedded thumbnails, the editing software used and author or copyright fields. Re-encoding drops all of these, because the browser creates a new file containing only the pixels. Dropping a cleaned copy back in should report that no metadata was found, which is a quick way to check.

Expect file sizes to change. Re-compressing at quality 92 and losing the embedded thumbnail and colour profile often makes the copy smaller, but a result can also come out larger than the source, particularly with PNG output on a photograph. The note under each file shows the before and after sizes, so you can see which happened and switch the format if you prefer.

Some social networks remove part of the metadata when you post, but others do not, and email attachments, forum uploads, marketplace listings and personal websites often keep it all. A photo of an item for sale taken at home may carry coordinates accurate to a few metres. Cleaning before sharing is a cheap precaution, and nothing here needs an account. It is most worth doing for pictures taken at home, at a child's school or at work, and for anything you post publicly or send to someone you do not know well.

• Only metadata is removed. Faces, street signs, house numbers and reflections in the picture itself remain. Crop or blur them separately, for example with the image cropper.
• The colour profile goes too. Wide-gamut images can look slightly different afterwards.
• JPEG is recompressed. At quality 92 the result is near-lossless to the eye but not byte-identical, and sizes can change either way.
• Animated GIFs keep only the first frame.
• The file name is yours to check. It may contain names or places.

Because the picture is redrawn, you can combine cleaning with other changes: choose WebP for a smaller file, or send the copy to the image compressor and image resizer if it is still heavy. The image converter handles format changes alone. To see what a website learns about you from your connection rather than a file, try what is my IP address.