Remove EXIF Data from Photos

People remove EXIF data for simple reasons. Sellers on OLX, Facebook Marketplace or Quikr do not want buyers to see their home address in a product photo. Parents share school and birthday pictures without the location of the house. Job seekers and students upload photos to forms without the phone model and serial number. Journalists and activists protect sources. Bloggers and shop owners make image files a little lighter and remove the editing software from their pictures.

The clean copy is checked before you get it. After removing the metadata, the tool reads the new file again from scratch and tells you plainly whether any location, camera or date field is still present. In our tests on photos from several camera makers, the cleaned files showed no remaining personal metadata in ExifTool, and the pictures were identical pixel for pixel.

A typical phone photo holds far more than people expect. Alongside the latitude and longitude there is often the altitude, the direction the camera faced, the exact second it was taken with the time zone, the phone make and model, the lens, the software version, and on some cameras the body and lens serial numbers. Many cameras also store a small preview copy of the photo, which can still show parts that were later cropped out. Everything mode removes all of these, including the preview.

Removing metadata is not the same as making a photo anonymous. Faces, house numbers, vehicle plates, school uniforms and landmarks in the picture can still show who or where it is. Crop or blur those separately. And if the original photo was already shared with metadata, cleaning a new copy does not change the old one.

The cleaning happens in your browser, so your photos and their locations are never sent to a server. There is no sign up, no daily limit and no watermark. Close the tab and everything is gone.

Orientation and the colour profile are kept so the photo still looks right. If you need those removed too, convert the clean file with the image converter, which writes a fresh file.