Remove EXIF
A photo from a phone usually carries where it was taken, when, and on what. This removes that.
It does it without re-encoding the picture. The metadata segments are dropped and everything else is copied through byte for byte, so the image data in the file you get back is identical to the one you put in. It is not re-saved, not softened, and not a fraction larger.
Drop images here, or
JPG, PNG and WebP. They stay on your device.
There is nothing to set. The metadata comes out and the picture is copied through untouched. There is no quality setting, because nothing is re-compressed.
Questions
- Are my photos uploaded?
- No. Each file is read from your disk, worked on inside the browser tab, and saved back to your disk. Nothing is sent to us or anyone else, and there is no server here that could receive a photo. Open your browser's network tab and run a batch: no request carries an image.
- Can I do a whole folder at once?
- Yes. Drop in as many as you like and they are handled one after another, with the finished set offered as a single ZIP. They go one at a time on purpose, because decoding twenty large photos simultaneously is how a phone browser runs out of memory and kills the tab.
- What exactly is removed?
- The EXIF block, which is where GPS coordinates, the camera model and serial number, and the date and time live; XMP, which carries editing history; and any embedded comment. The JFIF block is kept, because it holds the image's density and dropping it changes how some software reads its physical size.
- How is this different from re-saving the photo?
- Re-saving through a canvas is the usual approach, and it does remove the metadata, by decoding the picture and compressing it again from scratch. The result is a different, softer, often larger file. This tool never decodes the image: it removes the metadata segments and copies the rest through unchanged, which is checked in the tests by comparing the image data of the original and the result byte for byte.
- Does it work on PNG and WebP?
- Not yet. This handles JPEG, which is what phone cameras produce and where EXIF actually turns up. Anything else is handed back untouched and told you so, rather than being quietly converted.
- Is the location really gone?
- The EXIF block that holds it is gone from the file, and you can confirm it with any metadata viewer. Worth knowing separately: a copy you have already shared, backed up or uploaded still has it. This changes the file you have, not the ones already elsewhere.