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Image Metadata Remover

Photos carry more than pixels. A picture from a phone can record where it was taken, when, and on what device. This removes all of it by rebuilding the image from its pixels alone.

Image Metadata Remover tool

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How to use the Image Metadata Remover

  1. Add your images

    Drop one or more photos onto the upload area.

  2. Set the output quality

    Because the image is re-encoded, JPEG output involves a quality setting. Keep it high — 95% — unless you also want a smaller file.

  3. Clean and download

    Press Remove Metadata and download the cleaned images.

Where your files are processed

Your files are processed locally in your browser and are not uploaded to our servers.

The Image Metadata Remover runs as JavaScript on the page you are reading. When you choose a file, the browser hands it to that code directly — it is never put into a network request, so there is no upload to cancel, no copy sitting in a queue somewhere, and nothing for us to delete afterwards. We could not see your file if we wanted to.

You can verify this rather than take our word for it: open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and run the tool. You will see no request carrying your file. Better still, once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the internet entirely and the Image Metadata Remover will keep working — which it could not do if it depended on a server.

To be exact about what doesleave the page: like the rest of this site, it loads analytics, which record that a tool was opened and whether it succeeded. Those events carry the tool’s name and a duration — never a file, a file name, or anything read out of your file. The tool panel above is also excluded from session recording, so nothing shown inside it is captured either.

Frequently asked questions

Everything that is not a pixel: GPS coordinates, the date and time, camera make and model, lens and exposure settings, embedded thumbnails, and any editing history. The output contains the picture and nothing else.

Most large platforms do remove EXIF when they process an upload, but you are trusting them to do it, and you have already handed them the original. Files shared directly — by email, messaging apps that send as a document, or a link to cloud storage — very often keep everything intact.

Not visibly. The pixels are preserved and re-encoded at high quality. One thing to know: if the original relied on an EXIF orientation flag to display upright, that flag is gone — so check the result and use the Image Rotator if anything came out sideways.

Yes, and you should if it matters. Right-click the downloaded file and open its properties or info panel, or run it through any EXIF viewer. The camera and location fields should be empty.

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Credits

The file-processing behind this tool is adapted from DoxDock by Mithun Srinivas, used under the MIT Licence. Rebuilt here in TypeScript for this site.

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