View photo metadata (camera, timestamps, GPS), then strip all EXIF or GPS only — JPG, PNG, WebP, iPhone HEIC and AVIF in your browser. Free, no signup — files stay on your device.
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Privacy: Viewing and stripping run entirely in your browser. Photos are not uploaded to our servers.
How strip works: For JPEG, Strip all removes EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments and other app segments without re-encoding; only the ICC colour profile and Adobe colour marker are kept so colours look the same, plus a tiny orientation-only EXIF tag when the photo was taken sideways, so it still displays upright. Strip GPS only removes EXIF GPS, XMP and comments, keeping other EXIF and IPTC. PNG and WebP clear metadata by canvas re-encode — pixels are rewritten; that is labeled in results.
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Phone photos often hide EXIF data: camera make/model, capture time, and sometimes GPS coordinates. Before you share on Discord, Telegram, email, or a marketplace listing, use this free EXIF remover to view that metadata and strip it — entirely in your browser.
Need smaller files after cleaning? Use the private image compressor (optional EXIF strip there too). Compare upload vs browser tools in our TinyPNG alternative guide. Preparing product shots? Try marketplace listing prep, batch-convert iPhone photos with HEIC to JPG (HEIC/AVIF also work directly here), or browse the best free client-side image tools. Multi-up sheets: image tiler. Still stuck with camera names like IMG_4821.jpg? The photo renamer lets you give a batch of photos descriptive filenames (it uploads photos to our server, unlike this tool). Metadata is only half of photo privacy — hide faces, plates, and names visible in the picture with Photo Redact (blur & pixelate).
A: Drop JPG/PNG/WebP/HEIC/AVIF files here, review the metadata table, click Strip all metadata (or Strip GPS only), then download or ZIP. Everything runs in your browser.
A: EXIF is embedded photo metadata — camera model, timestamps, and often GPS. Removing it before sharing helps protect privacy and location.
A: No. Viewing, HEIC/AVIF decoding, and stripping stay on your device (lossless segment cleaner for JPEG; canvas re-encode for PNG/WebP/HEIC/AVIF).
A: Yes for JPEG — Strip GPS only removes the EXIF GPS block, the XMP block (XMP can also store GPS) and comments while keeping other EXIF tags, IPTC and the colour profile. For HEIC/AVIF, the clean JPG gets the original camera/date EXIF minus GPS when it can be copied safely (the Method column says if it could not). PNG/WebP strip re-encodes via canvas and clears metadata that way.
A: JPEG strip removes metadata segments losslessly and does not re-encode pixels. PNG/WebP strip re-encodes via canvas, and HEIC/AVIF become a 95%-quality JPG (visually identical for normal viewing) — we label the method in the results.
A: For JPEG, Strip all metadata removes EXIF (camera, date, GPS), XMP (which can also hold GPS), IPTC/Photoshop data, comments, other app segments and any data after the end of the image. It keeps only the ICC colour profile and the Adobe colour marker so colours display the same, plus the orientation tag when a photo needs it (see below), and the compressed image data is copied unchanged. PNG and WebP are re-encoded in your browser, which writes pixels only (no EXIF, XMP or text chunks; the original colour profile is not carried over, though the browser may add a generic sRGB tag). HEIC/AVIF download as a new JPG/PNG with no metadata.
A: No. Phones often save photos sideways and add an EXIF orientation tag that tells viewers to turn them upright. When a JPEG has that tag set to anything other than normal, Strip all metadata writes back a new EXIF block that holds only the orientation value (36 bytes, with no camera, date or GPS data), so the photo still displays upright and the image data stays unchanged. The Method column says when this happens. Strip GPS only keeps the original orientation with the other EXIF. This applies to JPEG files.
A: Yes. Drop HEIC/HEIF or AVIF files: the tool reads the EXIF block inside the file (camera, capture time, GPS) so you can see what would leak, then decodes the photo in your browser and downloads a clean JPG (95% quality; PNG if it has transparency). Honest limits: browsers can’t write HEIC/AVIF, so the download is JPG/PNG rather than a stripped HEIC, the pixels are re-encoded, and some HEIC-only extras (Live Photo, depth map, HDR gain map) are not kept. Pixel dimensions stay the same.
A: Yes — batch up to 20 files and download a ZIP.
A: Download the cleaned file and drop it back into this viewer — GPS/EXIF should be gone after strip-all. This viewer shows EXIF tags; to check XMP and IPTC too, use another metadata viewer such as ExifTool.
A: Yes — free with no registration.
A: No. Stripping EXIF removes hidden metadata (GPS, camera, capture time) but not what is visible in the picture. To hide faces, license plates, house numbers, or text, use the free Photo Redact tool to blur, pixelate, or black out those areas — its download also strips EXIF/GPS.
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