EXIF viewer & remover. See what your photos leak.

How to use the EXIF Viewer & Remover

This tool shows the hidden EXIF data inside a JPEG photo, such as the camera model, the date taken and the GPS position, and then saves a clean copy without it. It removes the data by drawing the picture onto a blank canvas and saving that as a new file, so nothing from the original file's header comes along. Use it before you post photos on a marketplace, a forum or a public profile.

Step by step

1. 1
   Add your photos

   Drop one or more images on the box that says Drop photos here, or click it to pick files. On a keyboard, focus the box and press Enter or Space. JPEG works best; PNG, WebP and GIF files work too.

2. 2
   Check each photo's card

   Each photo gets a card with a thumbnail, the file size and a table of what was found, such as Camera make, Camera model, Date taken, ISO speed and Focal length. Reading metadata appears for a moment while the file is read.

3. 3
   Look for the location warning

   If the photo stores a position, an amber box titled GPS location embedded shows the latitude and longitude, and the altitude in meters when present. View on map opens that spot on OpenStreetMap in a new tab so you can see what the photo gives away.

4. 4
   Save a clean copy

   Press Strip metadata & download on a card to save that one photo. The file keeps its name with -clean added, for example beach-clean.jpg. The card then shows the old and new file size.

5. 5
   Clean a whole batch

   Press Strip metadata & download all to clean every photo in the list. Each one downloads as its own file, one after another.

6. 6
   Tidy the list

   Press Remove on a card to drop that photo from the list, or Clear to empty the whole list and start again.

Reading the result

• GPS coordinates are shown in decimal degrees, for example 40.748817, -73.985428. A negative latitude is south of the equator and a negative longitude is west of Greenwich.
• No EXIF metadata found means the tool found none of the fields it reads in that JPEG. Saving a clean copy is still a safe step if you are unsure where the file came from.
• A PNG, WebP or GIF shows a note that the format does not carry camera or GPS data in a form this tool reads. You can still save a clean copy.
• After cleaning, the size line reads old size, an arrow, then the new size. JPEGs are saved again at quality 0.92 at full resolution, so the new file can be smaller or larger than the original.

Tips and common mistakes

• Clean the copy you plan to share, not your only original. The date and place in EXIF are useful in your own photo library.
• Any file that is not a JPEG comes out as PNG. A PNG made from a WebP or a photo can be much larger than the original.
• An animated GIF comes out as a single still PNG, because the canvas draws only one frame.
• When you use Strip metadata & download all, your browser may ask whether this site may download several files. Allow it, or only the first file arrives.
• Many social apps strip EXIF on upload, but email, file sharing links and some marketplaces send the file as is. Clean those yourself.

Privacy and limits

Your photos are read and re-saved inside your browser. They are not uploaded and nothing is stored after you close the tab. The only thing that can leave the device is the View on map link: if you click it, the coordinates are sent to openstreetmap.org in the link address.

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