How to remove exif data
- Add your photos. Straight-from-camera and straight-from-phone JPEGs carry the most metadata.
- The tool immediately lists what it found in each file — camera, lens, timestamp, and GPS coordinates if present.
- Press Strip metadata to re-encode each image with all EXIF, GPS and colour-profile tags removed.
- Download the cleaned files. Compare the before/after sizes — metadata can be surprisingly large.
Why this runs in your browser
Almost every other free image tool uploads your file to a server, processes it there and sends it back. Remove EXIF Data does the work with the Canvas and File APIs that are already built into your browser, so the picture never leaves your device. That is faster for large files, it works on a plane, and it means there is no copy of your photo sitting in somebody's S3 bucket waiting to be deleted by a retention policy.
Frequently asked questions
What is actually stored in my photos?
Typically the camera make and model, lens, exposure settings, the exact date and time, the software used, an orientation flag, an embedded thumbnail — and on phones with location services enabled, latitude and longitude accurate to a few metres.
Do social networks already strip this?
Most large platforms strip EXIF on upload, but plenty of places do not: email attachments, cloud drive links, forums, marketplace listings and direct file shares usually pass the original through untouched.
Does removing metadata change how the image looks?
The orientation tag is applied to the pixels before it is dropped, so the picture stays the right way up. Removing an embedded colour profile can shift colours very slightly on wide-gamut displays.
Can metadata be recovered afterwards?
No. The cleaned file is generated from raw pixels, so the original tags simply do not exist in it. Keep your original if you need the shooting data later.