EXIF Metadata Viewer & Remover
See what your photo reveals, including GPS, then strip it.
Drop an image here, or
Nothing is uploaded — the file stays in your browser.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste is uploaded, logged, or stored.
How to use it
- Choose a photo — JPEGs carry the most metadata.
- Review the tags found, especially any GPS coordinates.
- Strip the metadata and download the clean image.
What your photos are carrying
A photo straight off a phone or camera embeds far more than pixels: the make and model, lens, exposure settings, the exact timestamp, the software that touched it, and often the GPS coordinates where it was taken. Post that photo unchanged and you have published your home address in a form most people never think to check.
How stripping works
The tool decodes the pixels onto a canvas and re-encodes them. Canvas output carries no EXIF, IPTC, or XMP, so every metadata block is dropped as a side effect rather than being selectively edited. That's a stronger guarantee than deleting individual tags, though it means the image is re-compressed and the file size will change slightly.
Most social platforms already strip EXIF on upload, but not all do, and email attachments, cloud shares, and direct file transfers preserve it completely.
FAQ
- Are my images uploaded to a server?
- No. Every tool here decodes and re-encodes your file using your browser's own Canvas APIs. The image never leaves your device, which is also why it works offline once the page is loaded.
- Does this remove GPS location for certain?
- Yes. Re-encoding through a canvas discards every metadata block, GPS included. You can confirm it by running the cleaned file back through this tool — no tags will be listed.
- Will stripping metadata change how the image looks?
- The pixels are preserved, but re-encoding a JPEG re-compresses it, so there's a small generational quality loss and a different file size. Orientation is applied during decoding, so a rotated photo stays correctly oriented.
- It found no tags. Does that mean the image is clean?
- Probably. PNGs rarely carry EXIF, and images already processed by a social platform are usually stripped. It can also mean the metadata is in a format this reader skips — re-encoding removes it regardless.