Remove EXIF and GPS Data from a Photo
Delete the metadata before the photo travels. For JPEG and PNG the strip is lossless — this tool rebuilds the file keeping only the segments needed to draw pixels, so image quality is untouched while GPS coordinates, serial numbers and timestamps vanish. Free, local, immediate.
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How it works
- Drop the photo you plan to share.
- The clean copy is built instantly — the notice lists what was removed.
- Compare the file sizes: the difference is pure metadata.
- Download and share the clean file instead of the original.
Worth knowing
Most "EXIF removers" quietly re-encode your image: they decode it to pixels and save a fresh JPEG, which means a second generation of compression loss on top of removing the data. This tool takes the structural route instead. A JPEG is a sequence of tagged segments; only a handful — quantisation tables, frame headers, Huffman tables and the entropy-coded scan — are required to render it. Everything else (APP1 with EXIF and XMP, APP2 with the ICC profile, comment blocks) is dropped, and the remaining segments are reassembled untouched.
The result is verifiable: the pixel data in the clean file is byte-for-byte identical to the original. Open both in the EXIF viewer and compare the segment tables — the clean copy is missing exactly the metadata segments and nothing more. PNG gets the same treatment through its chunk structure, discarding tEXt, iTXt, eXIf, tIME and friends while keeping every critical chunk intact.
What actually leaves the file: GPS coordinates and altitude, capture and modification timestamps, camera make, model and body serial number, lens details, software history, embedded thumbnail (which can preserve pre-crop content), and any copyright or author fields. If you need to keep authorship data while removing location, strip everything here and re-add the credit in your publishing platform — selective field editing creates more mistakes than it prevents.
When to reach for this: photos of your home or children sent outside the family, marketplace listing shots taken inside your house, images attached to public posts or support tickets, and anything captured by a phone with location on. The safest habit is simple — originals stay on your device; stripped copies travel.
Stripping is lossless here because JPEG metadata lives in self-contained segments: this tool removes them the way you would pull chapters from a binder, leaving the image chapters untouched — no decode, no re-encode, no generation loss.
What this tool will not do
- It will not remove what is printed in the pixels — a visible timestamp burned into the corner of the photo survives any metadata strip.
- It does not edit fields selectively; the block goes as a whole, because half-cleaned metadata gives false confidence.
- Embedded ICC colour profiles are removed along with the rest — pixel bytes are untouched, but a photo with a wide-gamut profile may render slightly differently in colour-managed viewers afterwards.
Questions people ask
Does removing EXIF reduce image quality?
Not here. JPEG and PNG are stripped structurally, without decoding the image — the pixel data in the output is identical to the input. Tools that re-save the image do lose quality; this one does not.
How much smaller does the file get?
Typically 10–60 KB for a phone photo, occasionally far more: an embedded ICC profile or a large XMP block can add hundreds of kilobytes. The before/after sizes are shown so you can see exactly what the metadata weighed.
Why should I remove GPS from photos?
Coordinates in a shared original can place your home, workplace or daily route to within metres. Listings, forum posts and file transfers all pass EXIF along unless something strips it.
What about WebP or HEIC files?
Their metadata sits inside container structures without a simple lossless-removal path, so this tool offers a clean re-encoded PNG copy for them and says so explicitly rather than pretending the strip was lossless.
Do social networks already strip EXIF?
Uploads to major networks are stripped, yes. Email attachments, cloud-drive links, messaging "send as file" and marketplace uploads frequently are not — those are the paths this tool exists for.
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