EXIF Remover

About this tool

Every JPEG from a smartphone embeds GPS latitude and longitude, camera make and model, lens serial number, and shutter timestamps — invisible to you but readable by anyone who receives the file. This tool strips that metadata before you post photos to a forum, submit to a bug bounty, or share with a client. Stripping happens in your browser using the Canvas API: the image is decoded, redrawn and re-encoded locally without touching a server. Choose JPEG (the default) or WebP output with a quality slider from 60 to 98 (default 92), or PNG for a pixel-identical lossless result of the decoded image. For privacy-sensitive use cases — journalists protecting sources, security researchers, or real-estate agents removing GPS tags — the browser-only approach means even this site never sees the coordinates it removes.

Why use it

• Removes GPS Latitude and Longitude: Phone cameras embed exact lat/long in the EXIF GPSInfo block. Stripping them before you post a kitchen photo to a public forum means your home address isn't recoverable from the image file by anyone who downloads it.

• Drops Camera Serial and Lens Make: EXIF Make, Model, LensModel, and BodySerialNumber fields can de-anonymise leaked or published photos — linking different images to the same physical device. Re-encoding wipes all of these fields in a single step.

• Keeps Pixels Visually Identical: PNG output preserves the decoded pixels exactly. JPEG and WebP at the default quality of 92 are visually indistinguishable from the original. You are stripping invisible data, not degrading the image itself.

• 100% Browser-Side Processing: Canvas re-encode happens entirely inside your browser tab. The photo is never uploaded to any server, meaning even this site never has access to the GPS coordinates it is removing from your files.

• Three Output Formats: Use JPEG for the smallest photo file, PNG for a lossless archival copy, or WebP for a modern compressed version. All three strip metadata as part of the re-encode process.

• Drops Maker Notes and XMP Blocks: Proprietary maker-specific EXIF blocks such as Canon CustomFunctions and Sony LensType, plus XMP and IPTC data embedded in the file, are all removed — not just the standard Exif fields.

How to use

1. Choose the Output format: JPEG (default), PNG for lossless output, or WebP for modern compression
2. If you chose JPEG or WebP, set the quality slider (60–98, default 92 keeps the image visually identical)
3. Drop a JPEG, PNG, or WebP file (up to 20 MB) onto the upload area
4. Click Strip & download — the image is re-encoded in your browser and saved as scrubbed.jpg, .png or .webp
5. Verify by right-clicking the saved file on your OS and checking Properties or Get Info — GPS and camera fields should be absent

When it helps

• Before uploading personal photos to a public forum, Reddit, Imgur, or anywhere strangers can download the file
• When submitting screenshots to a bug bounty programme and you want to avoid leaking environment details
• Before sharing photos from a news shoot where the source location must remain confidential
• When sending real-estate listing photos where the embedded GPS reveals the exact property address
• Before posting photos to a pseudonymous account where camera fingerprinting could link images to a real identity
• When delivering client photos and the shoot location or camera details are commercially sensitive

Examples

Tips

• Re-encoding JPEG always incurs a tiny quality loss; for archival copies choose PNG output to get pixel-identical results with all metadata removed.
• Strip metadata after your final edit, not before — Photoshop, Lightroom, and other editors can re-write EXIF including GPS when saving.
• Many social platforms strip EXIF on upload, but not all — Reddit and some forums keep it intact. Never assume a platform will sanitise your metadata.
• Right-click the saved file and choose Properties (Windows) or Get Info (Mac) to verify that GPS and camera fields are absent in the output.
• If your photo has an embedded JPEG thumbnail in the EXIF block, that thumbnail also carries its own metadata — re-encoding strips both at once.

Frequently Asked Questions

Glossary

EXIF

Exchangeable Image File Format — a standard for storing camera metadata inside JPEG, TIFF, and WebP files, including GPS coordinates, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and camera make and model.

GPSInfo block

A sub-IFD within the EXIF data structure that stores GPS latitude, longitude, altitude, timestamp, and bearing recorded at the moment the shutter was pressed.

Maker notes

A proprietary EXIF tag (MakerNote) that camera manufacturers use to store brand-specific data such as focus modes, custom functions, and lens serial numbers. Contents vary by manufacturer and are not part of the EXIF standard.

ICC profile

An International Color Consortium file embedded in an image that describes the colour space in which the image was captured or edited. Stripping it typically has no visible effect for sRGB images displayed on screen.

XMP metadata

An Adobe-developed metadata format embedded in image files that stores editing history, copyright notices, keywords, and ratings. XMP data is separate from EXIF and is also removed during Canvas re-encoding.

Canvas re-encode

The process of drawing an image onto an HTML5 Canvas element and then exporting it via toDataURL or toBlob. This produces a new file containing only pixel data, stripping all embedded metadata from the original container.