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Remove EXIF and GPS Data from Photos
Find out what your photo says about you before you share it: where it was taken, when, and on which phone. Then remove it, without re-compressing the picture.
Choose a photo to see its metadata first. Folders work too.
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How to remove EXIF data from a photo
Open the photo
Drop a JPG, PNG or WebP, or a folder of them. On a phone, tap Open image and pick from your photo library.
Read the report
You see what the file holds before anything changes: GPS location, date and time, camera and lens, and whether a small preview of the original is embedded.
Save the clean copy
Save the photo without its metadata. JPG, PNG and WebP are cleaned without re-encoding, so the picture itself is untouched, byte for byte.
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What this page does
Metadata report first
A plain list of what the file reveals, with GPS called out: “This photo contains a GPS location. It will be removed.”
No re-compression
For JPG, PNG and WebP the metadata blocks are cut out of the file and the image data is copied as it is. No quality is lost.
Stays the right way up
The orientation tag and color profile are kept, so portrait photos don’t turn sideways and colors don’t shift after cleaning.
Batch clean
Clean a whole folder at once. The summary tells you how many photos had a location, so you know what you just protected.
What a photo’s metadata can reveal
Phones and cameras write EXIF data into every photo. Most of it is harmless, but some of it is personal, and it travels with the file wherever you send it.
- GPS location: latitude and longitude, often accurate to a few meters, and sometimes altitude and direction.
- Date and time the photo was taken, to the second.
- Phone or camera make and model, the lens, and on some cameras a serial number.
- An embedded thumbnail: a small copy of the original photo, which can still show what you cropped out or covered.
- Editing history in XMP, and captions, names or copyright notes in IPTC fields.
What stays, and why
Removing everything blindly can break a photo. Many phones store the pixels sideways and add an orientation tag that says “turn this 90°”. Strip that tag and a portrait suddenly shows on its side. Image Studio keeps a minimal orientation tag, and nothing else, in place of the original EXIF block.
The color profile stays too, so a photo from a wide-color phone screen doesn’t look dull after cleaning. HDR photos keep the markers that tell a screen how to show their extra brightness, while the personal data inside them is removed.
Where location data leaks
Large social networks usually strip location data from public posts. Plenty of other paths don’t: email attachments, files sent in messaging apps as documents, cloud-storage share links, marketplace listings and forum uploads can all deliver the original file, location included.
On iPhone, the share sheet has an Options button with a Location switch. On Android, the camera app can stop saving location in its settings. Those help for future photos; this page cleans the ones you already have.
Is it really private?
A metadata tool that uploads your photo has already received the location you were trying to hide. Here the file is read and rewritten inside your browser tab: the report, the cleaning and the saving all happen on your device.
The report itself is never stored. Close the tab and it is gone.
You don't have to take our word for it. Three checks:
- Open your browser's developer tools, choose the Network tab, then open and save an image. No request carries your file.
- Open an image here once, then turn on airplane mode and run the same job again. It still works, because nothing needs a server.
- Read the page's response headers: its Content-Security-Policy lets it connect only to this site itself, so there is no outside host a file could go to.
Reference
| Lossless cleaning | JPG, PNG and WebP: metadata removed, image data copied unchanged |
|---|---|
| Removed | EXIF (GPS, date, camera, thumbnail), XMP, IPTC, comments, PNG text chunks |
| Kept | Orientation, color profile (ICC) and HDR gain-map markers |
| Other formats | Re-encoded to remove metadata, which also removes it |
| Report | GPS, date and time, camera and lens, embedded thumbnail |
| Batch | Whole folders; summary of how many files had a location |
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove the location from a photo?
Open the photo here. The report shows whether it holds a GPS location, and saving the clean copy removes it. Send the clean copy instead of the original.
Does removing EXIF data reduce the quality?
No. For JPG, PNG and WebP, the metadata is cut out and the image data is copied unchanged, so the picture is identical to the original.
Will my photo turn sideways after removing metadata?
No. Many tools strip the orientation tag and leave portraits on their side. Image Studio keeps a minimal orientation tag so the photo displays the right way up.
Can I see the EXIF data before removing it?
Yes, that is the first thing you see: location, date and time, camera, lens and whether a hidden thumbnail is embedded. Nothing changes until you save.
Do social networks remove EXIF data anyway?
The big ones usually remove location from public posts, but email, messaging apps sending files as documents, cloud share links and many marketplaces pass on the original. Cleaning the file yourself is the only way to be sure.
What is the embedded thumbnail, and why does it matter?
Cameras often store a small preview of the photo inside the EXIF data. If you crop or cover part of the photo in an editor that keeps EXIF, the thumbnail can still show the original. Removing the metadata removes the thumbnail too.
Can I clean many photos at once?
Yes. Open a folder or select many files. Each one is cleaned the same way, and the summary tells you how many held a location.