Remove Image Metadata

Most JPGs that come off a phone or DSLR carry an invisible layer of EXIF: GPS coordinates, the exact capture timestamp, camera make and model, lens, shutter and ISO settings, and sometimes the owner or copyright field. Remove Image Metadata produces a clean copy with that layer gone, which is the practical step before a photo leaves your control. The clearest case is GPS: a single holiday or for-sale photo can pin your home or current location, and stripping it removes that risk before you post to a marketplace, forum, or social feed.

It also fits quieter jobs: photographers sending proofs without camera serial numbers or shoot dates, content teams cleaning images for a CMS or press kit, and anyone forwarding a sensitive photo who wants the embedded location and timestamp gone first.

Drop or select a JPG, PNG or WebP and download the cleaned file. It runs in your browser: nothing is uploaded, and nothing persists once you close the tab.

The mechanism is a clean canvas re-export. The image is decoded and re-drawn pixel-for-pixel onto a fresh canvas, then encoded back out. Because the canvas holds only pixels, the EXIF, GPS, and camera tags attached to the original container do not survive the round trip; the output is a brand-new file built from the visible image alone. By default it keeps the input's format, and you can choose JPG, PNG or WebP instead. If your browser cannot save WebP files, a WebP request comes out as PNG, and the file is named to match.

Be clear on what it does not do. It does not edit or selectively keep individual tags, it does not touch the visible pixels, and it is not a format converter beyond the supported set. RAW files, HEIC, and TIFF are not part of the input range here, so convert those to a supported format first if you need them cleaned.

Because the new file is built from pixels alone, none of the original's metadata blocks survive: EXIF (including GPS), XMP, IPTC captions, embedded thumbnails and color profiles are all left behind, and the browser writes only a minimal header of its own. What re-rendering cannot remove is information in the image itself: a face, a street sign or house number, a date stamp burned into a corner, or an invisible watermark woven into the pixels. Treat the result as free of attached metadata, not as anonymous.

A re-render also re-encodes, and that has visual cost. For JPG and WebP, the output is freshly compressed, so a photo that has already been through several saves can pick up additional artifacts; expect a small quality and file-size change rather than a byte-identical copy. A photo tagged with a wide color profile, such as Display P3, is color-converted by the browser and the new file carries no profile, so very saturated colors can shift slightly. PNG and WebP output keep transparency, but JPG cannot hold an alpha channel, so saving a transparent PNG as JPG fills the transparent areas with white.

Verify the output rather than trusting it blind. Open the cleaned file and compare it side by side with the original to confirm the visible image is unchanged and that quality and any transparency look right. Then check the downloaded copy in your operating system's file details (Get Info or the Preview inspector on a Mac, Properties and then Details on Windows) and confirm that the GPS, camera, and timestamp fields no longer appear.

Share the new file, not the original, and name them clearly. For legal or evidentiary use, check the file in a dedicated metadata inspector too; the tool clears attached data, it does not anonymize.