EXIF Metadata Remover

A JPG is a sequence of labelled segments, and only some of them hold the picture. EXIF and XMP live in the segment called APP1: GPS latitude and longitude, camera or phone model, lens, exposure settings and the exact capture time. Editing history and captions from Photoshop or agency workflows sit in APP13 as IPTC data, and free text can hide in a comment segment. A PNG carries the equivalent in its tEXt, zTXt, iTXt, eXIf and tIME chunks.

No, and the reason is structural. The tool walks the container segment by segment, copies everything except the metadata ones, and stops copying selectively when it reaches the Start of Scan marker, the point where the entropy-coded pixel data begins. That data is transferred untouched, so the result is byte-for-byte identical as an image. This is what makes stripping different from re-saving a photo, which decompresses and recompresses it and costs real quality.

Because it is not private information: it describes which colour space the numbers in the file refer to. Remove it and viewers fall back to assuming sRGB, which visibly shifts colours on any photo shot in a wider gamut such as Display P3 or Adobe RGB. FlashPix data, which shares the same APP2 segment and does leak application details, is removed.

Yes, with no sign-up and no limits, and it accepts JPG and PNG. Stripping happens entirely in your browser, which is the only honest way to build this tool: a metadata remover that uploaded your photo would have handed over the GPS coordinates before removing them.

For the copy your contacts receive, mostly yes: photos sent the normal way are recompressed and stripped. Two holes remain. Sending a photo as a file or document skips that processing and delivers your full metadata, GPS included. And the platform itself receives your original before stripping it, so the data is removed for other users, not for the service. Cleaning the file before it leaves your device is the only version of this you control.

No. The metadata segments are not hidden or blanked, they are absent: the cleaned file simply no longer contains those bytes, so there is nothing to undelete. Keep in mind that the original photo on your device still has everything, so share the cleaned copy, not the original.

Because metadata has real weight: camera makers embed a preview thumbnail of the photo, editors add XMP blocks, phones add depth maps, and together they can amount to hundreds of kilobytes. The pixels are untouched, the metadata blocks are gone, and the size difference is exactly the metadata that was removed.