How to remove EXIF data from a photo
- Select Choose files, or drop your photos on the box.
- The tool strips the hidden data and shows what it found, such as GPS location, camera model and date.
- Select Download. The file is named with
-cleanso your original is kept.
What is EXIF data
EXIF is information that cameras and phones store inside a photo. It can include the exact GPS position where the picture was taken, the date and time, the device model, lens settings and sometimes the software used. Photos can also hold other tags such as IPTC captions and XMP data. When you share a picture, anyone who gets the file may be able to read it. A photo of your home or a child’s school could reveal an address.
How this tool removes it
For JPG files, the tool deletes the metadata segments directly from the file. The picture itself is not re-compressed, so quality and size stay the same. If the photo relies on an EXIF rotation tag to display upright, the tool instead redraws the image with the rotation applied, so it does not appear sideways after the tag is gone. For PNG files, it removes text, EXIF and timestamp chunks, again without changing pixels. For other formats, such as WebP, the image is re-encoded, which also drops the data.
Social networks often remove location data when you upload, but not always, and sending a photo by email or chat as a file usually keeps it.
Tips
- Check the removed note in the result. It tells you what was found.
- Cleaning does not blur faces or hide things visible in the picture.
- To also shrink the file, use the image compressor. Resize with the image resizer.
- iPhone HEIC photos hold metadata too. Convert them with HEIC to JPG, which removes it as well.
All of this happens on your device. Your photos are never uploaded, which matters most for a privacy tool.