Remove EXIF online: delete the geotag and metadata from photos

How to remove EXIF from a photo

1. Choose a mode. “All metadata” removes the date, camera, coordinates and other tags; “Geotag only” — just the coordinates, the date and camera are kept.
2. Choose a photo. Click “Choose photos” or drag files into the frame — cleaning starts immediately, and the files are not uploaded anywhere.
3. Download the result. Download the cleaned photo or all of them at once as a ZIP archive; on a phone the “Share” button will send them to a messenger. The table shows what was removed and that there is no GPS any more.

Why photo metadata is dangerous

A phone records more than the image in every shot. From the metadata of a photo that is posted whole or sent as a file you can find out:

• where you live and go — geolocation accurate to the building entrance: a photo taken at home gives away your home address, a photo of a child — their school or playground;
• when you are not at home — the dates and times of shots add up to a daily routine, and a holiday is visible from photos of the sea;
• what device took it — the manufacturer, model, firmware version and sometimes the serial number of the camera or lens: it is used to link photos from different accounts;
• that the photo was edited — the processing software, the modification date and sometimes the original thumbnail from before cropping.

Messengers and social networks remove EXIF from photos sent as an image, but a photo sent “as a file”, by e-mail, through the cloud or posted on a website goes out with all its metadata. You can check a particular photo in the EXIF viewer.

Remove only the geolocation or all metadata

All metadata — for publishing, when nothing about the shot should remain: EXIF (date, camera, lens, shooting settings, software), GPS, XMP, IPTC, comments, the thumbnail and additional images inside the file are removed. Only the Orientation rotation tag — otherwise a vertical photo would open sideways — and the ICC colour profile remain.

Geotag only — when the date and camera are needed (for an archive, a photo bank, a competition) but the location is not: the geodata — coordinates, altitude, direction and GPS time — is zeroed, XMP is deleted entirely, and the other tags are left alone.

No loss of quality

JPEG, PNG and WebP are not recompressed: only the metadata blocks are cut out of the file, and the pixels are copied byte for byte — the size decreases by the amount of metadata, and the image stays the same. Formats that cannot be cleaned this way (HEIC from iPhone, AVIF, TIFF) are redrawn by the page into JPEG at 92% quality (HEIC with its own decoder, in any browser) — the table says “recompressed to JPEG” for such a file.

Remove EXIF and geolocation on a phone

This page also works in a phone browser: choose the photo through “Files”, clean it and tap “Share” — it will go to Telegram or WhatsApp already without metadata. Built-in methods:

• iPhone: in the “Share” sheet tap “Options” and turn off “Location”; to stop the geotag being recorded at all — “Settings” → “Privacy & Security” → “Location Services” → “Camera” → “Never”.
• Android: in the camera settings turn off “Location tags” (or “Save location”); when sending from the gallery — “Remove location data”, if there is such an option. Separate apps — apps for removing EXIF and geotags on Google Play.

How to remove photo metadata on a computer

This page works in any browser on Windows, macOS and Linux. The systems’ built-in tools:

• Windows: in File Explorer right-click the photo → “Properties” → the “Details” tab → “Remove Properties and Personal Information” → “Create a copy with all possible properties removed”. Windows may leave some data (XMP, manufacturer data) — check the copy in the EXIF viewer.
• macOS: open the photo in “Preview” → “Tools” → “Show Inspector” → the “i” tab → GPS → the button to remove the location; in “Photos” — “Image” → “Location” → “Hide Location”.
• Many files: the free ExifTool — exiftool -all= -tagsfromfile @ -Orientation *.jpg will remove everything except the rotation, exiftool -gps:all= *.jpg — only the geolocation.

How to check the result

For every photo the table shows what was removed and whether any coordinates remain: the page re-reads the cleaned file. All the remaining tags can be seen by opening the file in the EXIF viewer: the capture date, camera and export to Excel are there too.

Photos stay on your device

Files are read and cleaned in the browser and are not sent to the server; the result is hidden from Webvisor recording. More details in the privacy help article.

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