Strip EXIF data from your photos — GPS coordinates, camera serial numbers, capture times — while the image itself stays exactly as it was.
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Stays uprightOrientation and colour profile are kept.
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Good to know
EXIF, explained in a minute
EXIF is the standard block of data a camera or phone writes into every photo it takes. It was designed for photographers, to record the lens, the shutter speed and the date. Over the years it grew to include GPS coordinates, device serial numbers and a small preview of the image — details that travel with the file wherever you send it.
This EXIF remover deletes that block, along with the XMP and IPTC data that editing apps add next to it, and gives you back a clean copy of the photo. It all happens on your own device.
What EXIF data is inside a typical phone photo
A single photo from a modern phone commonly holds forty or more EXIF fields. Most are harmless camera settings. A handful are not, and they are what an EXIF remover is for:
GPS latitude, longitude and altitude, often precise to a few metres.
The make and model of the device, and on many cameras a body or lens serial number.
The original capture time and the time zone it was taken in.
The owner or artist name set in the camera, and copyright text.
The software and version that last saved the file.
Remove EXIF data without re-saving the image
The usual way to remove EXIF data is to open the photo in an editor and export a new copy. The new copy has no EXIF, but a JPEG exported again is compressed again, so detail and colour degrade a little each time.
This EXIF data remover never re-encodes the photo. It locates the EXIF segment inside the file, cuts it out, and joins the remaining pieces back together. The compressed image data is carried over untouched, so the cleaned photo decodes to exactly the same pixels as the original.
The hidden thumbnail inside EXIF
EXIF can carry its own small preview image, stored separately from the main picture. Some editors update the main image when you crop or retouch a photo but leave that preview alone. The result is a file that shows your crop on screen while still holding a thumbnail of the original frame.
Because the EXIF remover deletes the whole EXIF block, the embedded preview goes with it. The photo viewer on this site lists it separately, so you can see whether a file has one before you clean it.
EXIF data remover vs. other kinds of metadata
EXIF is only one of several places a photo keeps information. XMP holds edit history, creator names and keywords; IPTC holds captions and copyright notices; PNG files keep text chunks, which is where some AI image generators write the prompt used to create the picture. Removing EXIF alone would leave all of that behind.
So this tool removes them together, keeping only what the image needs to display correctly. If you want the broader picture of every kind of photo metadata, the metadata remover page covers it.
Why one EXIF tag is written back
There is one EXIF value an image cannot do without: orientation. Phones frequently store a portrait photo as a landscape image and add a tag telling apps to rotate it. Delete that tag and the photo appears on its side.
When the original has a rotation, the EXIF remover writes back a 26-byte EXIF block containing that single value and nothing else — no date, no device, no location. Photos that were already upright get no EXIF at all.
Limits, and what the EXIF remover leaves alone
JPEG, PNG and WebP files up to 100 MB are supported, any number at a time, with results downloadable individually or as a ZIP. HEIC files can be inspected but not yet cleaned.
Colour profiles are kept, so colours look the same after cleaning.
Content Credentials (C2PA) are kept by default; untick the option to remove them too.
Anything visible in the picture itself — faces, signs, screens — is not changed.
Yes. EXIF is descriptive information about the photo, not part of the image itself. Removing it with the EXIF remover does not affect how the picture looks, apart from rotation, which this tool preserves by writing the orientation value back.
Does the EXIF remover reduce image quality or file resolution?
No. The image data is copied without being decoded or compressed again, so resolution and quality are unchanged. The file usually gets slightly smaller, because the EXIF block and any embedded preview are gone.
Can I remove EXIF data from many photos at once?
Yes. Give the EXIF remover a whole set or drag in a folder. Each photo is cleaned in turn and listed with what was removed; the results can be downloaded together as a ZIP.
Why does my cleaned photo still have an EXIF block?
If the original photo was rotated by its orientation tag, the tool writes back a minimal EXIF block holding only that tag, so the image does not appear sideways. It contains nothing else.
Does removing EXIF data remove GPS location too?
Yes. GPS coordinates are stored inside EXIF, and location names sometimes appear in XMP or IPTC as well. All of these are removed together.
Where does the processing happen?
In your browser, on your own device. The EXIF remover never sends the photo to a server, which is also why it keeps working if you go offline after the page has loaded.