See the hidden details in your photos, like GPS location and phone model, and download a clean copy. Nothing is uploaded.
This tool lets you remove EXIF data from photos and see exactly what was there first. Every phone photo carries hidden details inside the file: often the GPS location where it was taken, the phone model, the date and time, and the editing software. A photo taken at home can show your home address to anyone who opens the file. This free EXIF remover reads JPG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC photos, lists the metadata in plain words, warns you in red if there is a location, and gives you a clean copy. It works as a photo metadata remover for up to 30 files at once, and it removes GPS from photos online without uploading them: the file is cleaned in your browser, on your device. Below we explain exactly which parts of the file are removed and kept, show our measured results, and say clearly what the tool cannot do.
Photo files are made of blocks: some hold the picture, some hold information about it. The tool reads the file byte by byte, finds the blocks, and handles each format like this:
Worked example (measured). In our own Chrome test we used a 2000×3000 JPG with GPS 28.61389, 77.20833 (New Delhi), camera “Apple iPhone 15”, software “iOS 18.1” and orientation 6 (stored sideways). The tool listed Location, Camera / phone and Software and showed the red GPS warning. The clean JPG was 672,741 bytes instead of 672,917: only 176 bytes of metadata were removed, the pixels were identical, and the photo still displayed upright at 2000×3000. A 70.2 KB WebP became 70.0 KB, and a PNG without metadata kept exactly its size.
Drop, choose or paste (Ctrl+V) up to 30 photos. JPG, PNG and WebP are cleaned without re-saving; HEIC is saved as a clean JPG.
Each photo gets a table: location, camera or phone, lens, date taken, software and more. Photos with GPS get a red warning.
Click Download for one photo, or Download all (ZIP). Clean files are named like photo-clean.jpg.
A clear table per photo shows what the file carries: location, camera, lens, date taken, software, author, serial number, XMP, IPTC and comments.
If a photo has GPS coordinates, you see them and a red line: “This photo shows where it was taken.”
JPG, PNG and WebP are cleaned by cutting out metadata blocks. The picture data is not touched, so there is no quality loss at all.
Photos are read and cleaned on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, which is the point of an EXIF remover.
EXIF (Exchangeable image file format) is a standard way for cameras and phones to save facts about a photo inside the file. You can’t see it in the picture, but any app, website or person who has the file can read it. Typical EXIF data includes:
Most of the time this is useful, for example to sort your gallery by place. The risk comes when a stranger gets the original file: a photo of something you sell, taken at home, can reveal where you live. Removing metadata before sharing with people you don’t know is a simple habit, like not writing your address on a parcel you give away.
| Row | What it means | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Location (GPS) | Latitude and longitude, shown to 5 decimals, with a red warning | EXIF GPS section |
| Camera / phone | Make and model, e.g. Apple iPhone 15 | EXIF |
| Lens | Which lens or camera on the phone | EXIF |
| Date taken | When the photo was taken | EXIF |
| Software | App or system that saved or edited it, e.g. iOS 18.1 | EXIF |
| Author | A name saved in the file | EXIF |
| Camera serial number | A number that can link photos to one camera | EXIF |
| EXIF data | EXIF is present but holds none of the rows above | EXIF |
| XMP data (edit history) | Extra data written by editing apps | XMP block |
| IPTC data (captions, copyright) | Captions, keywords, copyright notes | IPTC block (JPG) |
| Comment | Text comment inside a JPG | JPG comment block |
| Text info | Named text blocks in a PNG, e.g. from the program that made it | PNG text chunks |
If nothing is found you see “No location or camera details found. You can still save a clean copy.” Screenshots and photos that already went through some apps are often clean.
| Format | Removed | Kept | Picture re-encoded? | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPG | EXIF (incl. GPS), XMP, IPTC, comments, other app blocks | JFIF, colour profile, Adobe block, orientation | No | 672,917 → 672,741 bytes |
| PNG | tEXt, zTXt, iTXt, eXIf, tIME | All picture and colour chunks | No | No metadata: same size |
| WebP | EXIF, XMP | Colour profile, picture, animation | No | 70.2 KB → 70.0 KB |
| HEIC and others | Everything | Only the pixels | Yes, new JPG at 95% | not measured |
The location is part of the EXIF block, so removing EXIF data removes the GPS too. Add the photo; if it has a location you see the coordinates and the red line “This photo shows where it was taken.” Download the clean copy and share that one, not the original. You can check your result by adding the clean file again: it should show no Location row.
Note that a location can also live outside the file. Google Photos, Apple Photos and Facebook can store a place for a photo in your account; that is a setting in those apps, not something a file tool can change.
Apple gives you two built-in options. When sharing from Photos, tap Options at the top of the share sheet and turn Location off; that leaves out the location for that share only, and other details stay. To stop new photos from saving a location at all, go to Settings, Privacy & Security, Location Services, Camera and choose Never.
To remove all metadata from photos you already have, open this page in Safari and add them. If the iPhone hands over a HEIC file, the tool saves a clean JPG instead (and cannot list HEIC metadata first); if it hands over a JPG, you get the full table and a lossless clean copy.
Options depend on your phone’s camera and gallery apps. Many camera apps have a setting to stop saving location tags, and some galleries can leave out the location when you share. For photos you already have, open this page in Chrome, add them and download the clean copies. This works the same on Samsung and other brands.
On Windows, a photo’s Properties, Details tab has “Remove Properties and Personal Information”. On a Mac, Preview’s Inspector can remove location info. Both work for single files. This page shows everything at once for up to 30 photos and also cleans XMP and IPTC blocks, in any browser.
We have not tested every app and their behaviour can change with updates, so here is the general picture rather than a promise:
Because you often can’t tell which path a photo took, cleaning it yourself before sending is the safe choice.
For JPG, PNG and WebP: no, not even slightly. The tool never decodes and re-saves these pictures; it copies the image bytes and leaves out the metadata blocks. In our test the cleaned JPG had identical pixels and was only 176 bytes smaller. For HEIC, the photo is re-saved as a JPG at 95%, which is a very small, normally invisible loss, and gives you a file that opens everywhere.
No. This tool is for photos only. To see what a video file says about itself (codec, resolution, frame rate), use the video metadata viewer; it shows the information but does not remove it. Re-encoding a video with the video compressor writes a new file, but we have not checked which tags every format keeps, so we don’t promise it removes location from videos.
Removal is exact: for JPG, PNG and WebP the tool removes every block of the types listed above, whatever is inside them. The table of what was found is a summary, not a full dump. Honest limits:
An EXIF remover that uploads your photo to clean it is a strange idea: to protect your location, you first send the photo with the location to a server. This one reads and cleans the file inside your browser, on your device, so the original never leaves it.
It is also lossless for the common formats. Many tools “remove metadata” by opening the photo and saving it again, which re-compresses the picture and can turn a sideways phone photo the wrong way. This tool cuts out the metadata blocks and copies the picture bytes untouched, keeps the colour profile, and writes back only the orientation value so the photo still stands upright. And it shows you what it found before you download, so you know what you are removing rather than trusting a button.
For each photo, the tool reads the file’s structure and, from the EXIF block, the GPS coordinates, camera make and model, lens, date taken, software, author and serial number. It notes whether XMP, IPTC, comment or PNG text blocks are present. After cleaning it shows the new file size and whether the picture was kept unchanged (“Cleaned. size, picture unchanged.”) or re-saved as JPG.
What we do not do: we don’t edit what is visible in the photo, we don’t change dates or add fake data, we don’t remove locations stored in your online accounts, and we don’t collect any data about your photos; the page has no way to send them anywhere.
| VidHaul | Typical upload-based sites | |
|---|---|---|
| Upload needed | No, cleaned on your device | Yes, the original with its location |
| Shows metadata first | Yes, table plus GPS warning | Sometimes |
| JPG, PNG, WebP quality | Lossless, pixels identical | Often re-saved, slight loss |
| Photos at once | Up to 30, ZIP download | Often one at a time on free plans |
| Sign-up or watermark | Neither | Sometimes |
| Works offline after loading | Yes | No |
Next steps: make the clean photo smaller with the image compressor, change its pixels with the image resizer, or turn iPhone photos into JPG with HEIC to JPG.
This tool removes metadata stored in the file. It cannot hide things that are visible in the picture itself.
Drop the photo onto the box above. You see what metadata it has. Click Download to save a clean copy without EXIF, GPS, XMP or IPTC data.
Add the photo here. If it has GPS coordinates, they are shown with a red warning. The clean copy you download has no location, along with the other metadata removed.
When sharing from Photos, tap Options at the top of the share sheet and turn Location off; that removes only the location for that share. To remove all metadata, open this page in Safari, add the photo and download the clean copy.
It depends on your camera and gallery app; some can share without location. On any phone, open this page in Chrome, add the photos and download the clean copies.
Not for JPG, PNG and WebP: they are cleaned without re-encoding, so the pixels stay exactly the same. HEIC and other formats are saved as a new JPG at 95% quality.
Chat apps usually re-compress normal photo messages, which tends to drop metadata, but a photo sent as a document is sent as the original file, metadata included. We haven’t tested every app version, so clean the photo first to be sure.
Big social apps generally remove EXIF data from public posts. But the original file you email, share by cloud link or send as a document keeps it, so clean it before sending it that way.
No. That stamp is drawn into the picture itself, as pixels. This tool removes hidden metadata only; it does not edit what you can see in the photo.