Remove Metadata

Image files can carry data that is not part of the picture: camera model, capture time and sometimes GPS coordinates. This page reads those blocks from the file and can write a cleaned copy that leaves them behind.

  • Read EXIF, XMP, ICC and text fields from the file bytes.
  • Choose Remove EXIF or Remove All, then press Clean Metadata.
  • Keep the original if you may need the capture details later.

See what the file actually contains

Press Detect Metadata. The tool reads the first part of the file as bytes and lists the EXIF, XMP, ICC and text fields it can decode. The preview cannot show this, because a browser turns the file into pixels and pixels have nowhere to store EXIF. If a block is present but not decoded, the report says so rather than pretending the file is clean.

ORIGINAL FILE CLEANED FILE pixels kept EXIF · camera and date GPS · location XMP · edits pixels only No EXIF · XMP · GPS filled from visible pixels CLEAN
Example: the picture data stays; the EXIF, XMP and text blocks are not written into the cleaned file.

Remove EXIF and GPS data

Choose Remove EXIF Data for camera details, timestamps and location, or Remove All Metadata to drop every block the tool can address, including the ICC profile the browser attaches when it encodes JPEG and WebP. Press Clean Metadata. The tool decodes the picture to a canvas and writes a new file from those pixels, so the embedded blocks do not survive. Orientation is baked in during the same decode, so a phone photo stays upright without relying on a tag. The output keeps the current format.

Before you clean a file

Keep the original if you may need the capture date, camera settings or location later, because the cleaned copy does not keep them. Cleaning a JPEG or WebP is a fresh lossy encode, so the picture is close but not identical; a PNG is lossless. If you are already compressing, the Compress tool can also drop EXIF and XMP when it rewrites a JPEG or WebP; for a PNG, its Remove Metadata switch asks for that rewrite, though the original is kept if re-encoding would grow the file.

Check the cleaned file with Detect Metadata again if the image is sensitive. A new encode is the reliable way to drop these blocks, and the panel reports only the fields it found.

Common questions

Can I remove GPS location from a photo?
Yes. Load the photo, choose Remove EXIF Data or Remove All Metadata, and press Clean Metadata. The location is part of the EXIF block, so a cleaned file written from pixels does not carry it.
Does removing metadata change the picture?
The pixels are re-written, so a JPEG or WebP is encoded again and can differ slightly. A PNG stays lossless. Dimensions stay the same.

All image processing happens in your browser. Your image is never uploaded, and there is no signup.