Strip a photo's hidden data
See what a photo quietly carries, from GPS coordinates to the phone that took it, then save a copy with all of it removed. The photo never leaves your machine.
How it works
Drop in a photo. The page reads the metadata block inside the file and lists what it finds: when the photo was taken, where, on what device, and with what settings. Then Save a clean copy redraws the picture into a fresh file that carries none of it.
The cleaning works by re-encoding rather than by editing tags, so nothing is left behind: every metadata field goes, including ones this page did not know how to display. Rotation is applied to the pixels first, so a sideways phone photo comes out upright even after the orientation tag is gone.
Good to know
Where the data comes from. Phones and cameras write it by default. A modern phone with location services on for the camera records latitude and longitude to several decimal places, which is precise enough to identify a house.
Screenshots usually have none. A screenshot is drawn by the phone, not captured through a lens, so there is normally no camera or GPS data in it. Photos that have been through an editing app vary: some editors strip the data, some keep it and add their own.
Sending a photo does not always strip it. Social networks often remove metadata when you upload, but messaging apps, email attachments, and cloud file links often pass the original file through untouched. If you do not know which case you are in, send a clean copy.
The honest limit. For a JPEG, the clean copy is a lossy re-save at quality 0.95, so the file is re-compressed once. For a PNG the copy is lossless and transparency is kept. HEIC files from an iPhone are not readable here yet; convert one to JPG with the Image Converter first, then bring it back.
Check for yourself that nothing is uploaded
You don't have to take our word for it, which is the whole reason this tool exists as a page and not a service. Every browser has a built-in panel that shows everything a page sends or receives over the internet. On a computer (this doesn't work on a phone):
- Press F12, or right-click anywhere on this page and choose Inspect.
- In the panel that opens, click the Network tab.
- Now use the tool: drop in a photo, read the metadata, and press Save a clean copy.
- Watch the Network list while it works. Your photo never appears in it. There is one item you will see the first time you use the page: a file called exifr.umd.js, about 75 KB. That is the metadata-reading code arriving from this site to your browser, a download to you, not your photo going out.