Remove EXIF Metadata from Photos
Of every tool on this site, this is the one where "nothing is uploaded" matters most: sending a file somewhere to have its location data removed defeats the purpose.
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Strips EXIF, including camera model, shooting date and GPS coordinates.
All processing runs in your browser. No file leaves this device.
A photo from a phone typically carries far more than people expect: the exact GPS coordinates where it was taken, the date and time to the second, the device model, and often the camera's serial number. Social platforms usually strip this on upload, but files sent by email, messaging apps configured to send originals, cloud folders, and forum attachments frequently do not. If you have ever posted a photo taken at home, the coordinates of your home may have gone with it.
This tool re-encodes the image without carrying the metadata block across, so what comes out is pixels and nothing else. It is a genuine removal rather than a flag telling software to hide the fields.
The trade to be aware of: re-encoding a JPEG means a second lossy compression pass. The quality setting is high by default to keep that minimal, but if you need the original bytes preserved exactly, a metadata editor that rewrites only the EXIF segment is the better tool for the job. This page is the right choice when you want certainty that nothing came along, and are fine with a re-encode.
Orientation is handled correctly. Many naive metadata strippers remove the EXIF block including the orientation tag, which leaves phone photos rotated sideways. Here the rotation is baked into the pixels before the metadata goes away, so the image stays upright.
If you want to see what a file is carrying before deciding, the EXIF viewer on this site shows every tag, including a warning when GPS coordinates are present — and it reads the file locally too.
Common questions
- Does this remove GPS location data?
- Yes. The entire metadata block is left behind, which includes GPS coordinates, altitude and any location-related tags, along with camera model, lens, shooting settings, timestamps and serial numbers.
- Is the image quality affected?
- Slightly, because the file is re-encoded rather than surgically edited. The default quality is high so the difference is not visible at normal viewing sizes. If you need byte-exact pixels, use a dedicated metadata editor instead.
- Will my photos end up rotated sideways?
- No. The orientation recorded in EXIF is applied to the actual pixels before the metadata is dropped, so the image stays upright. This is a common failure of simpler strippers, which remove the orientation tag and leave the pixels un-rotated.
- Are my images uploaded?
- No. Every step runs inside this page — decoding, the pixel maths, and encoding. Nothing is transmitted and no server receives your files. You can watch the Network tab in devtools while a batch runs, or simply go offline after the page has loaded.
This converter is part of a full editing pipeline — tone, colour, lens correction and batch export all run the same way, without uploading.
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