EXIF Metadata Remover

How to Remove EXIF Metadata from Photos

Stripping metadata from your photos takes just a few simple steps:

1. Upload your photos — Drag and drop JPG, PNG, or WebP files onto the upload area, or click to browse. You can select multiple images at once. Need to resize before sharing? Try our Image Resizer tool.
2. Review detected metadata — The tool scans each image and shows you which metadata fields were found, such as camera make, GPS location, software, and timestamps. Images with no metadata are marked as clean.
3. Click Remove Metadata — The tool processes all images by re-encoding them through the Canvas API. This strips all EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, and other embedded data while preserving the visual content of the photo.
4. Download cleaned images — Click "Download" on individual files or "Download All" to save every cleaned image. You can then safely share them online. To further reduce file size, use our Image Compressor tool.

Features

• Client-side processing — your photos never leave your browser
• EXIF, GPS, IPTC, and XMP metadata detection
• Shows detected metadata fields for each image
• Batch processing — upload and clean multiple images at once
• Before/after file size comparison
• Supports JPG, PNG, and WebP formats
• Canvas API re-encoding ensures complete metadata removal
• Individual file download or download all at once
• Drag and drop or click to upload
• No sign-up, no watermarks, no usage limits

Benefits

Common Use Cases

Best Practices

• Always strip metadata before sharing photos online, even on platforms that claim to remove it automatically.
• Check the before/after file size — a significantly smaller cleaned file usually means metadata was successfully removed.
• Process photos in batches to save time when you have multiple images to share from the same event or location.
• Keep a copy of your original files with metadata intact if you need the EXIF data for personal archiving purposes.
• Disable GPS geotagging in your phone's camera settings if you don't need location data in your photos.
• Use this tool alongside our Image Compressor to both clean metadata and reduce file size for faster online sharing.
• After removing metadata, use our Image Resizer to adjust dimensions for specific platform requirements.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Assuming social media always strips metadata — not all platforms do, and some may preserve it in downloadable versions.
• Forgetting that screenshots can contain metadata too — always check before sharing any image file.
• Only checking one image from a batch — if your camera or phone embeds metadata, it likely does so for all photos from that session.
• Using lossy re-compression (JPEG) for images that need pixel-perfect quality — be aware that canvas re-encoding applies a new compression cycle.
• Not keeping a backup of originals — once metadata is stripped, you cannot recover it unless you kept the original file.