What it does: View and remove photo metadata
Phone photos hold much more than the picture: the GPS coordinates of where they were taken, the exact date and time, the phone model and sometimes its serial number. When you send them as a file or upload them to a website, that information travels with them.
This tool shows you what each photo carries and cleans it by removing those blocks from the file, without recompressing the image: the pixels stay identical. Orientation and colour profile are kept so it looks the same.
How to use it
- Choose or drag in one or more photos.
- Check what each one stores: the most sensitive items (location, serial number, author) are highlighted.
- Press “Download without metadata” on each photo, or clean them all at once into a ZIP.
- Share the clean version instead of the original.
Examples
Selling something second-hand
The photo of the sofa taken at home carries the coordinates of your front door. Clean it before uploading it to the listing.
Sending photos as files
Some apps strip metadata, but photos sent as documents or by email arrive complete. Clean them first.
Limits, formulas and assumptions
- Works with JPG, PNG and WebP. Removes EXIF (including GPS), XMP, IPTC, comments and embedded text.
- In JPG only the orientation, so the photo doesn't appear rotated, and the colour profile are kept.
- Anything some phones append after the image, such as the video of “motion photos”, is also dropped.
- Photos are read in your browser: they are never uploaded to a server.
Frequently asked questions
Don't messaging apps and social networks already remove the location?
When you send a regular photo, most of them recompress it and strip almost everything. But if you send it as a document, by email or upload it to a website, the metadata arrives intact.
Does the photo lose quality?
No. It isn't recompressed: only the metadata blocks are removed and the image stays identical, byte for byte.
How do I stop my phone saving the location?
Turn off the location permission for the Camera app (on iPhone: Settings › Privacy › Location Services › Camera; on Android, in the camera settings).
Why aren't HEIC photos supported?
Most browsers can't open them. Sharing an iPhone photo usually converts it to JPG; otherwise switch to Settings › Camera › Formats › Most Compatible.