Remove metadata from photo
Your phone wrote down where you were standing. This takes that back out, and leaves the photo itself alone.
What this looks for
Add a PNG, JPEG or WebP and every metadata block in it is listed here by name and byte count, before anything is removed. It looks for EXIF, XMP, IPTC and Photoshop resource blocks, free-text comments, modification timestamps, and C2PA Content Credentials. The colour profile is left alone on purpose, because deleting it changes how the image looks and it says nothing about you.
A watermark encoded into the pixels themselves, such as SynthID, is a different mechanism and is not something this or any metadata tool can remove.
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A whole folder works too · Ctrl/Cmd+V pastes · on phone this opens your photo library · up to 60 MB per file
What a phone writes into a photo, and how to remove that metadata
A phone camera fills an EXIF block before the file ever reaches your gallery: the make and model, the lens, the exposure settings, the moment of capture down to the second, and if location services were on, the latitude and longitude to several decimal places. In a JPEG that block sits in an APP1 marker segment near the front of the file. The tool finds it by its length field, reports its size, and rebuilds the file without it. The compressed image data further down is copied over untouched.
What it cannot do
- This removes the location the camera recorded. It does not remove a location visible in the picture, and a recognisable street corner identifies a place regardless of what the file says.
- Some messaging apps and social networks strip metadata on upload anyway, and others keep it. Which do which changes without notice, so cleaning the file first is the only part you control.
- It cannot touch a watermark encoded into the pixels of an AI-generated image. That is a different mechanism entirely and this tool does not reach it.
Questions people actually ask
- Does my phone really record where I took a photo?
- If you granted the camera location access, yes, as latitude and longitude in the EXIF block, usually precise to a few metres. Some phones also record the direction the camera was pointing and the altitude. Add a photo above and the listing tells you whether yours did.
- Will this reduce the quality of my photo?
- No, and that is worth being specific about. The image data is copied across byte for byte and never decoded, so the photo you get back is pixel-identical to the one you put in. Only the metadata blocks are gone.
- Doesn't compressing a photo already remove the EXIF?
- It does, as a side effect, because re-encoding produces a fresh image with nothing attached. But it also costs you quality for no reason if the file size was never the problem. Use compression when you need a smaller file and use this when you only want the metadata gone.
- What about the date and time?
- Removed along with the rest of the EXIF block, including both the capture timestamp and any modification timestamp. Note that your operating system keeps its own file dates outside the image, and this tool has no reach into those.
- Should I not just take a screenshot of the photo instead?
- That does strip the metadata, and people do it for exactly this reason, but it costs you the photo. A screenshot is limited to the resolution of your screen, it is re-encoded at whatever quality the system picked, and it often picks up the surrounding interface. This keeps every pixel of the original at full resolution and removes only the block you were shown, which is the same outcome without the damage.
- What is the embedded thumbnail, and why does it matter?
- EXIF often carries a small preview of the photo so a gallery can show it quickly. On some cameras and phones that preview is not regenerated when the image is edited, so a photo you cropped can travel with a thumbnail showing what you cropped out. It is a small image and easy to overlook, and it has embarrassed people who were careful about the visible frame. Removing the EXIF block removes the preview with it.
