Free tool · works offline · no upload
Remove location and metadata from a photo
Photos often carry the exact spot where they were taken, plus the device, the date and more. Choose a photo to see what it holds, then download a clean copy.
- 1Choose
- 2Check
- 3Process
- 4Verify
- 5Download
Runs entirely in this page. Your files are never uploaded: apart from a cookie-free visit count, this page's security policy blocks it from sending anything.
How to use it
- Choose one or more JPEG, PNG or WebP photos, or drop them on the box.
- The tool lists what it found in each one: location, camera, dates, software and any other metadata blocks.
- It removes all of it and copies the picture itself across unchanged, byte for byte.
- It reads the new file back to check that nothing is left and that the photo still opens at the same size.
- Download each photo, or all of them as one ZIP.
What it finds and removes
Most photos from a phone or camera carry a block of EXIF data. Depending on the device and its settings, that can include:
- Location: the latitude and longitude where the photo was taken, sometimes with the altitude. Coordinates from a phone are often accurate to a few meters, which is enough to point at one house.
- Device: the maker and model, the lens, and on some cameras a serial number or an owner name.
- Time: when the photo was taken, to the second.
- Software: the app or editor that last saved it.
- A thumbnail: a small copy of the photo. After a crop, the thumbnail can still show the part you cut out.
Photos can also hold XMP data (often from editing apps, and sometimes a second copy of the location), IPTC captions and credits, comments, and extra data stored after the picture itself, such as a second image or a short video clip. The tool shows each of these by name, then removes all of them.
How it keeps quality
Most metadata removers redraw the photo and save it again, which recompresses it and costs a little quality every time. This tool works on the file’s structure instead. A JPEG, PNG or WebP file is a series of labeled blocks, and only some of them hold the picture. The tool keeps the picture blocks and the color profile exactly as they are and drops the rest. Nothing is recompressed.
Private by design
Checking a photo for its location shouldn’t mean sending it to a stranger’s server. This page reads your photos with your browser’s own file reader, and the cleaned copies are made in the page’s memory. The only thing the page sends is a cookie-free visit count (which page, the site you came from, your browser type and how fast the page loaded), and its security policy blocks every other connection.
Questions
Does removing metadata lower the photo's quality?
No. The tool doesn't re-save the picture. It copies the image data exactly as it is and leaves out only the blocks that hold metadata, so the result looks identical and is usually a little smaller.
Why does the cleaned photo still have an orientation tag?
Phones often store a photo sideways and add a tag saying which way up to show it. Without that tag the photo would appear rotated, so the tool keeps that one tag and nothing else. It says nothing about you.
Can I use it on HEIC photos?
Not directly. Convert it with the HEIC to JPG tool on this site first. The JPG it makes already has no location or other metadata, so there is nothing left to remove.
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The photos are read and cleaned inside this page. Apart from a cookie-free visit count, the page's security policy blocks it from sending anything, which you can confirm in your browser's network panel.
Does this remove faces or things visible in the picture?
No. It removes data stored alongside the picture, not anything you can see in it. A street sign or a house number in the photo can still reveal where it was taken.