Photo metadata remover
See what a photo reveals about you, such as where and when it was taken, and save a copy without it.
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You can also paste a photo or drop a file here.
- Location
- Camera or phone
- Date taken
- Software
- Camera settings
- Lens, exposure and other technical details
- Editing details
- Editing history and extra descriptions (XMP)
- Caption and author
- Caption, author, keywords or copyright (IPTC)
- Comment
- A text comment saved inside the file
- Preview image
- A small copy of the photo, which can show it as it was before cropping
- Extra data
- Data after the image, for example the video of a motion photo
- Text notes
- Text saved inside the file, for example by an editing or AI tool
- Other
- Other data that isn't needed to show the picture
Runs in your browser. Nothing is sent or saved.
Good to know
Phones save more than the picture: often the exact place, the time and the phone model. Anyone who gets the original file can read them.
The photo is opened in your browser only. It is not uploaded, and this site can't see it. You can check: the tool keeps working with the internet turned off.
The clean copy is the same picture, not compressed again, so the quality doesn't change. Rotation and colour information stay, so it looks the same. Everything else is removed.
Messengers usually remove this data when you send a picture as a photo, but not when you send it as a file or document. Email and many websites keep it. Removing metadata doesn't hide what the picture itself shows: faces, street signs, screens.
A word about AI
Removing metadata is no longer the whole story. AI models can often work out where a photo was taken from the picture alone: the buildings, signs, plants, even the light. If the place must stay private, check what is visible in the background, not only what is stored in the file.
If you upload a photo to an AI chatbot, the service receives the original file, hidden data included. Clean it first if the place or time matters.