How to use EXIF Remover
- Choose one photograph or several at once.
- Leave Keep the colour profile (ICC) ticked unless you want that removed too.
- Press Remove metadata, then download the cleaned copies (named
-clean). - Check the What was removed table: it lists the blocks taken out of each file, the method and the size before and after.
- Keep the original if you need its date or copyright fields.
- The photographs never leave your browser, which matters given what you are removing.
What your photographs are telling people
A photo straight from a phone typically carries the exact latitude and longitude, to within a few metres, plus the date and time to the second and the device model and serial-adjacent identifiers. Posted publicly, that is your home address attached to a picture of your living room. Most large social platforms now strip EXIF on upload, but plenty of forums, marketplaces, messaging apps and file-sharing services do not, and attachments sent by email keep everything.
How stripping works here, and what it costs
For JPEG, PNG and WebP files the tool works on the file’s structure, not its pixels. It walks through the file’s blocks and drops the ones that carry metadata — EXIF, XMP and IPTC in a JPEG, text, EXIF and time chunks in a PNG, EXIF and XMP in a WebP — and copies everything else byte for byte. The picture is not decoded or re-compressed, so the quality is identical and the file usually gets slightly smaller. Other formats, such as GIF or BMP, are decoded and saved as a new PNG, which removes everything but can make the file larger.
What is lost besides the location
A JPEG keeps its orientation, so a portrait photo stays upright, and it keeps its colour profile unless you untick that option, so wide-gamut photos keep their colours. Copyright and author fields go with the rest — worth knowing if you are a photographer, since those are the fields that assert your authorship. The capture date is gone too, so keep an original if the photographs are records rather than posts.
Frequently asked questions
What metadata does it remove?
Can I clean several photos at once?
Is my data secure?
Does removing EXIF change how the photo looks?
Do social media sites remove EXIF automatically?
Can EXIF be recovered after stripping?
How do we know nothing is uploaded? Test it yourself on the privacy proof page.