Strip the hidden data your camera embeds — GPS location, camera model and timestamps — before you share a photo. Cleaning is lossless (the image never re-encodes) and runs entirely in your browser, so your photos and their location data never leave your device.
Quick answer: Drop a JPG or PNG below. The tool detects any hidden metadata — GPS coordinates, camera model, date taken — strips it without touching the image pixels, and gives you a clean copy to download. Nothing is uploaded; the whole thing happens on your device.
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What metadata is hidden in your photos
Every photo your phone or camera takes carries a block of EXIF data baked into the file. It usually includes the exact GPS coordinates where the shot was taken, the phone or camera model, the lens and exposure settings, and the precise date and time. That is useful for photographers, but when you post or send the photo, anyone who opens the file can read it — which can quietly reveal your home address, your workplace, or your daily routine.
This tool removes it the clean way. For JPEG it walks the file's marker segments and deletes the metadata ones — APP1 (EXIF and XMP), APP13 (IPTC) and comments — while leaving the compressed image data completely untouched, so there is no re-encoding and no quality loss. For PNG it strips the text and eXIf chunks the same way. It also peeks inside the EXIF first so it can tell you exactly what a photo was carrying — GPS, camera, or timestamp — before it is gone.
Frequently Asked Questions
EXIF is hidden data embedded in photos by cameras and phones — GPS coordinates, camera/phone model, and the exact date and time. Sharing a photo with EXIF intact can reveal your home address or routine, so removing it protects your privacy before posting or sending.
No. For JPEG and PNG the tool strips only the metadata segments and leaves the image data untouched — no re-encoding, so zero quality loss. The pixels are bit-for-bit identical.
Yes. The GPS location in the EXIF is removed with the rest of the metadata, and the tool tells you when a photo contained GPS, camera details or a timestamp before cleaning.
JPEG/JPG and PNG are cleaned losslessly at the file level. Other formats are cleaned by re-drawing them, which also strips metadata. Phone photos are almost always JPEG, which is fully supported.
No. Everything happens in your browser — the file is read and rewritten locally, so your photos and their location data never leave your device.
Some strip it on upload, but many messaging apps, email attachments and cloud shares keep EXIF — and 'original quality' uploads often preserve it. Removing it yourself first guarantees the data is gone wherever the photo ends up.