Photos carry hidden metadata: exact GPS coordinates, the time, your camera or phone model, sometimes even your name. Drop images here and download clean copies with every tag removed. Processing happens locally, so the originals (with their metadata) never leave your device.
What is Remove EXIF?
Our remove EXIF tool deletes the hidden metadata stored inside your photos before you share them: GPS coordinates, the date and time, your camera or phone model, and other tags such as captions and editing history. You drop the images, and you get clean copies back with all of that removed.
Most people never see this data, but anyone who receives the original file can read it. A photo of your new sofa can reveal your home address; a picture sent to a buyer can show which phone you own. Stripping metadata takes seconds and happens on your device, so the originals, with their location data, never leave it.
How to remove EXIF
- Drop photos.
- Click Remove.
- Download the clean files.
How Remove EXIF works
When a phone or camera takes a picture, it writes extra information into the file alongside the pixels. EXIF holds camera settings, timestamps and, if location services are on, precise GPS coordinates. IPTC can hold captions, names and copyright notes, and XMP records edits made in photo software. None of it is visible when you look at the photo.
This tool removes metadata by rebuilding the image from its pixels alone. Each photo is decoded into a blank canvas in your browser, which keeps only the picture, and a fresh file is written from that canvas. Because the new file is created from scratch, none of the original tags come along.
PNG files are rewritten without any quality loss. JPG and WEBP are re-encoded at the quality you choose, 95% by default, which is visually identical to the original. iPhone HEIC photos are saved as clean JPGs.
Key features of Remove EXIF
Strip metadata for free
Clean a whole batch of photos in one run at no cost, with no watermark. Drop a whole batch and download the clean files one by one or together in a ZIP.
Every tag removed
Files are rebuilt from pixels alone, so EXIF, GPS, IPTC and XMP tags are all left behind rather than selectively edited. Image dimensions stay exactly the same, and JPG quality is adjustable from 70% to 100%.
Clean copies in seconds
Since nothing is sent to a server, most photos are cleaned in about a second each. A batch from a phone gallery is ready to share almost as soon as you drop it in.
Clean phone photos on the phone
Phones add location data by default, so this works where you need it: in Safari on iPhone and Chrome on Android, as well as desktop browsers on Windows, macOS and Linux. No app is required.
Simple keyboard workflow
Drop or pick files, press Enter or the labelled Remove button, then download. Every control works with the keyboard, progress is announced to screen readers, and the page supports dark mode and zoom.
Location never leaves your device
Sending a photo to a website to strip its GPS data would hand that location to a server first. Here the original never leaves your browser; you can confirm in the network tab that nothing is sent.
What makes EZCompressor's Remove EXIF different
Originals never sent anywhere
Online metadata removers usually receive your full original file, location and all. This tool reads and cleans photos entirely in your browser, which is the only approach that keeps the location private from the start.
Batch cleaning with ZIP
Strip metadata from a whole holiday album or a set of listing photos at once and download a single ZIP, instead of cleaning images one by one in separate apps.
Quality under your control
Choose the JPG quality yourself. The default of 95% keeps photos visually identical and PNG files are rewritten losslessly, so cleaning metadata does not quietly degrade your pictures over time.
Why use Remove EXIF?
Location data is the main risk. A photo taken at home and sent to a stranger, posted in a forum or attached to a marketplace listing can reveal your address down to the building. Removing photo metadata before sharing closes that gap, even when the site you post to might strip it later.
There are other reasons to delete EXIF data too. Timestamps reveal when you were somewhere, camera models reveal what equipment you own, and some editing software writes your name into the file. Journalists, activists and anyone selling items online have good reason to share pictures that show only the picture.
Who can use Remove EXIF?
Marketplace sellers
Remove GPS data from item photos taken at home before posting listings, so buyers cannot work out your address from the files.
Journalists
Strip metadata from photos supplied by sources before publishing or forwarding them, so devices and locations cannot be traced back.
Parents
Clean photos of children before emailing or posting them, removing the location of your home, their school or other regular places.
Dating app users
Remove location and device tags from profile pictures before uploading them or sending them to people you have not met yet.
Property managers
Clean inspection and listing photos before sharing them with contractors and tenants, removing timestamps, GPS locations and the details of your device.
Settings explained
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| JPG quality | Higher keeps more detail but makes a larger file. 80–90% is visually identical to the original for most photos. |