Free tool
Remove metadata from photos
Strip the location, date, phone model and other hidden EXIF data from your photos before you share them. The picture stays exactly the same.
- Runs on your device
- Nothing uploaded
- No loss in quality
Cleaned on this device. Your photos are never uploaded.
How it works
How to remove metadata from a photo
Phones and cameras save hidden details inside every photo, mostly as EXIF data. This metadata remover takes them out of a copy of your photo, so you can share the picture without the details.
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Choose your photos
Pick one or up to 50 photos, or drop them on the box. JPEG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC photos work.
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We clean them on your device
The tool lists what each photo carries, removes it, then checks the cleaned copy to make sure nothing personal is left.
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Download the clean copies
Save each photo, or all of them as one zip file. Your originals aren't changed.
What’s removed, and what’s kept
Everything that could identify you goes. Only what's needed to show the picture correctly stays.
Removed
- GPS location, including altitude and direction
- Date and time the photo was taken
- Phone or camera make, model, lens and serial number
- Camera settings, editing software, names, captions and copyright notes
- Hidden extras some phones add, like a small preview copy of the photo
Kept
- The picture itself. JPEG, PNG and WebP photos aren't re-saved, so there's no loss in quality.
- The rotation flag, so your photo isn't sideways.
- The colour profile, so colours look the same. It describes the screen colours, not you.
Without a tool
How to remove the location from a photo on your phone or computer
Your devices can remove the location too. Most only remove the location, though, and leave the date and device details in place.
On iPhone or iPad
To share without location: tap Share, then Options at the top, and turn off Location. To remove it from a photo in your library: swipe up on the photo, tap Adjust next to the location, then No Location.
On Android
In Google Photos, open the photo, swipe up, tap the edit button next to the location, and choose Remove location.
On Windows
Right-click the photo, choose Properties, then Details, then Remove Properties and Personal Information. Choose to make a copy with all possible properties removed.
On a Mac
Open the photo in Preview, choose Tools, then Show Inspector, open the GPS tab and click Remove Location Info.
Why it matters
Why remove metadata before you share
Where you live
A photo taken at home can carry GPS coordinates precise enough to find your front door.
Your routine
Dates and times across several photos show when you're usually where.
Your devices
The phone model, and on some cameras a serial number, can link photos back to you.
Check a photo first
Not sure what a photo gives away? The photo location finder shows where it was taken, when, and on what phone.
Where was this photo taken?Some photos shouldn’t be shared at all
VaultShield keeps private photos and videos encrypted on your iPhone, behind a lock of their own.
See the photo vaultIt's information saved inside a photo file that you can't see in the picture: when it was taken, on which phone or camera, the camera settings and, if location was on, the GPS coordinates. Most of it is stored as EXIF data, with some as XMP or IPTC.
No. The photo is cleaned by your browser, on your device, and never sent to any server, ours or anyone else's. The page blocks itself from connecting to the internet, so you can turn on airplane mode after it loads and it still works.
Not for JPEG, PNG or WebP photos. The tool removes the metadata without re-saving the picture, so the image data is exactly the same. iPhone HEIC photos are the exception: they're saved as a high-quality JPG so they open anywhere.
Only the rotation flag, so your photo isn't sideways, and the colour profile, so colours look right. Neither says anything about you, where you were or what you used. After cleaning, the tool reads the new file again to check nothing personal is left.
When you share, tap Options at the top of the share sheet and turn off Location. To stop new photos saving a location at all, go to Settings, Privacy & Security, Location Services, Camera, and choose Never. Or clean photos here before you send them as files.
Many do when you post, but not all, and not every way of sharing. Sending a photo as a file, by email, AirDrop or a cloud link, usually keeps everything. Cleaning it yourself means you don't have to rely on someone else.
Not from the cleaned copy: it's gone from that file. Your original photo is untouched and still has its metadata, so share the clean copy and keep the original private.
Not yet. This tool works with photos: JPEG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC.