EXIF viewer and metadata remover
Nothing is uploaded — the file is processed entirely in your browser.
See what metadata a photo carries, including GPS, and strip it out.
How it works
Reads the EXIF metadata embedded in a JPEG — camera, lens, settings, timestamps and GPS coordinates — and produces a copy with all of it removed.
The GPS field is the one that matters. Most phones record the exact coordinates where a photo was taken, and that data travels with the file. A photograph shared from home carries the home address in it, precisely enough to place the building. This has ended criminal cases and exposed people who assumed a photo revealed only what was visible in it.
Social platforms usually strip EXIF on upload, which is why people assume it is not a concern. Email attachments, cloud file shares, messaging apps that send "as file" rather than as an image, and direct downloads generally do not strip it.
Stripping works by decoding the pixels and re-encoding them, which discards everything that was not image data. That also discards colour profile and orientation tags, so a photo relying on an orientation flag is rotated to its correct position first rather than being left sideways.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to a server, logged or stored, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected.
Common questions
- Do photos contain my location?
- Most phone photos record GPS coordinates in the EXIF header, accurate enough to identify a building. It travels with the file unless removed.
- Does uploading to social media remove EXIF?
- Usually yes, but email attachments, cloud shares and messaging apps sending "as file" generally do not.
- How is metadata removed?
- By decoding the pixels and re-encoding them, which discards everything that was not image data. Orientation is applied first so the photo is not left sideways.
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Sources
- Calculated on this page — At One Place