About the Remove EXIF Data tool
Photos can carry GPS coordinates, device details, and timestamps you may not want to share. This tool strips every metadata block by re-encoding the image on your device.
This runs entirely on your device. Photos often carry more private information than people realize, so keeping them off a server is the sensible default.
How to use it
- Add your photos.
- All metadata is stripped as the file is re-encoded.
- Download the clean copies.
The one field most people care about
GPS coordinates are written into EXIF by default on most phones. Publishing a photo taken at home can therefore publish your address, accurate to within a few meters.
Stripping metadata also removes the timestamp, device model and camera settings — useful if you would rather not advertise when a photo was taken or what you shot it with.
How the stripping works here
The image is redrawn onto a canvas and re-encoded, which produces a file containing only pixel data. No metadata block survives that process, because none is written.
Verify the result with the EXIF Viewer — the table should come back empty.
Common mistakes
- Stripping metadata from your only copy of a photo you will want the details for later.
- Removing EXIF but leaving identifying detail visible in the image itself.
- Assuming a filename is harmless. IMG_20260901_HOME.jpg gives away as much as the metadata did.
Questions people ask
Does removing EXIF change how the photo looks?
No. Only the metadata is removed; the pixels are unchanged apart from ordinary re-encoding.
Will the orientation flag be lost too?
The rotation is applied to the pixels before stripping, so the image stays the right way up.
Can I verify it worked?
Yes — run the cleaned file through the EXIF Viewer and confirm the fields are gone.