Image Metadata Remover

Typically: when and where the photo was taken (GPS coordinates from your phone), the exact device and settings, editing software history, and sometimes embedded captions or author fields. It rides inside the file as EXIF, XMP and IPTC blocks. The remover reads your file locally, tells you what it found, flags GPS specifically, and hands back a clean copy.

No, and this is the whole point of building it in-browser: the file is read, cleaned and re-assembled on your device. Nothing leaves your machine, which you can verify in your browser’s network tab while using it. For a profile banner, the same privacy holds in our banner checker.

Not with this method. The remover performs byte-level surgery: it copies your file minus the metadata blocks, leaving the compressed pixel data untouched. No re-encoding, no recompression, zero quality change. Color profiles are deliberately kept so colors do not shift. Tools that "clean" by re-saving through a canvas do recompress; this one does not.

Major platforms strip most metadata on upload for display, yes. The honest catch: you are still handing the original file, coordinates and all, to the platform, and files you share by email, WhatsApp document mode, cloud links or your own website often travel with everything intact. Cleaning before sharing is the version you control.

JPEG and PNG, which covers the overwhelming share of photos and screenshots. For other formats, converting to JPEG in any image app strips metadata as a side effect of re-encoding (with some quality cost). We chose to do two formats losslessly and correctly rather than many formats approximately.

Because profile photos, portfolio images and "working from my desk" posts can carry your home coordinates and daily patterns to anyone who downloads them. Scrubbing takes seconds and closes a leak most people never think about. It pairs naturally with a profile pass: run your photo here, then your text through the profile scorer.