Remove the hidden location, device and date details from your photos before you share them — free, in bulk, and without the picture being re-compressed.
Photos are cleaned on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no limit.
Photo metadata removerFree · no sign-up
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Never uploadedPhotos are read and cleaned in your browser.
Image untouchedOnly metadata is removed; the picture is copied byte for byte.
Stays uprightOrientation and colour profile are kept.
No limitsAny number of photos, downloaded as a ZIP.
Good to know
What a metadata remover actually removes
Every photo carries a second layer of information you never see on screen: where it was taken, which phone or camera took it, its serial number, the exact second the shutter fired, the apps that edited it, and sometimes the name of the person who owns the device. This metadata remover strips that layer out and hands you back the same picture without it.
It works on your own device. The photo is read and rewritten inside your browser, so there is nothing to upload and no server on our side that could receive it.
Remove metadata from photos without touching the picture
Most tools that remove metadata from a photo do it by opening the image and saving a new copy. That works, but it re-compresses a JPEG and quietly costs you quality every time. This metadata remover takes a different route: a photo file is a sequence of blocks, and only some of them hold the picture. We keep those blocks exactly as they are and drop the rest.
The result is the same image, byte for byte, in the same format and with the same file extension. Nothing is decoded, resampled or re-encoded, which is also why cleaning a photo takes a few milliseconds rather than seconds.
Remove location from a photo, and the GPS data with it
Location is the detail people most often do not realise they are sharing. A phone photo can store GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres, plus altitude, the direction the camera faced, and sometimes the city and country written out in words. Post a picture taken at home and those coordinates can point straight to your front door.
The metadata remover takes all of it out at once — coordinates, place names and the GPS timestamp. It does not blur anything visible in the frame, so a street sign or a landmark in the shot can still give a place away.
Photo metadata remover for a whole folder
Drop in one photo or a few hundred. They are processed one after another, each with its own line in the results: what was found, what was removed, and whether the file was already clean. Files that fail are listed with the reason instead of being skipped silently.
Download photos one by one or as a ZIP. Very large sets are split into several archives, a new one every 50 files or 200 MB, so building the download never runs your browser out of memory.
What stays in the file, and why
A metadata remover that strips everything can do real damage. Two things are kept on purpose. The colour profile stays, because without it a photo shot in a wide colour space looks dull on other screens. The orientation tag stays too: phones often store portrait photos sideways and rely on that one tag to show them upright. We write back a tiny block holding only that value, and nothing else.
By default the tool also keeps AI and provenance labels — Content Credentials (C2PA) and the "made with AI" source tag some generators add. Names, places and dates are removed either way. If you would rather drop those labels too, untick the option before or after cleaning.
Metadata cleaner formats and limits
JPEG, PNG and WebP are cleaned losslessly, up to 100 MB per file, with no cap on how many files you add. HEIC photos from an iPhone can be opened and inspected, but cleaning them is not supported yet; the tool says so rather than handing back an unchanged file.
It runs in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on desktop and mobile. Because no pixels are decoded, even a large camera JPEG is handled quickly on a phone.
What this metadata remover does not do
It removes information stored in the file. It does not change what the picture shows.
It does not blur faces, number plates, screens or anything else visible in the image.
It does not remove invisible watermarks that live in the pixels themselves, such as SynthID.
It does not rename your files; a name like IMG_20260614_184207 can still reveal a date.
It does not clean HEIC, RAW, TIFF, GIF or video files yet.
No. The files are read and rewritten inside your browser, on your device. There is no upload step and no server on our side that could receive a photo. You can check it: once the page has loaded, turn off your internet connection and clean a photo. It still works.
Will removing metadata make my photos look worse?
No. The metadata remover copies the blocks that hold the image unchanged, so the picture you get back is identical to the original down to the last pixel. Only the metadata blocks are gone, which usually makes the file a little smaller.
Why did my photo keep its orientation if orientation is metadata?
Because removing it would turn many phone photos on their side. The pixels of a portrait shot are often stored in landscape, and a single orientation value tells every app to rotate them. The tool writes back only that value — about 26 bytes — so the photo still displays the right way up.
Does it remove Content Credentials or "made with AI" labels?
Not by default. Those labels say how an image was made rather than who you are, so they are kept unless you untick the option. If they are kept, a Content Credentials checker will report that the file was changed after it was signed, which is exactly how that system is meant to work.
Can I remove metadata from iPhone photos?
Yes, if they are JPEG files, which is what an iPhone often hands over when you pick a photo in a browser. Original HEIC files can be inspected here, but cleaning HEIC is not supported yet.
Don’t social networks remove metadata anyway?
Many large networks strip location data when you post, but you should not rely on it. Email attachments, cloud-storage links, messaging apps set to send originals, marketplace listings and your own website usually pass the file along unchanged, metadata and all — which is why running photos through a metadata remover before you share them is the safer habit.