How to use it
- Click Choose files or drop your photos on the box. JPEG, PNG and WebP files work.
- Read the report under each file: camera, date, settings and any GPS location.
- Click Remove metadata, then download each copy or all of them as a ZIP.
What a photo reveals about itself
A digital photo often carries an EXIF block (the standard CIPA DC-008, Exif 2.32): the camera make and model, the date and time, the exposure, lens and focal length, the software that saved it and, on many phones, the GPS coordinates where it was taken. Photo editors add XMP packets with their history, and the file may also hold comments, text or a second, smaller picture.
How the removal works
The tool reads the file's structure and copies it piece by piece. In a JPEG it drops the segments that hold EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments and other application data, and anything after the end of the picture; the colour profile stays. In a PNG it drops the tEXt, zTXt, iTXt, eXIf and tIME chunks. In a WebP it rewrites the RIFF container without the EXIF and XMP chunks and corrects its size. The compressed picture data is never decoded or written again, so the pixels stay the same.
Colour profiles (ICC) are kept, because they describe how the colours should look, and they hold no personal details.
Why a sideways photo stays upright
Phones store a photo in its sensor's orientation and write a single orientation tag beside it. Viewers turn the picture when they show it. Removing that tag would show the photo sideways, so the tool keeps a minimal EXIF block that holds only the orientation tag. It carries no camera, date or location. A photo that is already upright gets no EXIF block at all.
Example: a phone photo before sharing it
A photo from a phone shows the camera model, the exact date and a GPS location, which together reveal where and when it was taken. Add it to the tool, read the location warning, then remove the metadata. The copy has the same pixels and the same orientation; the location and the date are gone.
Share the copy. The original file on your phone is not changed.
Frequently asked questions
Does removing the metadata change the picture?
No. The pictures are not decoded or saved again. The parts that hold metadata are dropped and everything else is copied byte for byte, so the pixels are identical.
Why does a photo still show upright after the removal?
Phones store the sideways orientation as a tag. The tool keeps that single tag, which holds no personal information, so the picture is still shown the right way up.
Why should I remove the GPS location?
A GPS location tells anyone who has the file where the photo was taken, which may be your home or your children's school. Remove it before you post a photo online.
Are my photos uploaded when I check or clean them?
No. The file is read and copied by your browser on your own device. You can check this by turning off your internet connection after the page has loaded.
Why is a file refused?
The tool reads JPEG, PNG and WebP files. Other formats, such as GIF and HEIC, are not supported here. A file whose structure is broken is refused, because it cannot be cleaned safely.
Can I clean several photos at once?
Yes. Add up to 50 files, clean them all with one click and download the copies as one ZIP file. Each copy keeps its name with -clean added.
Sources
- CIPA DC-008: Exif 2.32, the EXIF file format standard
- ITU-T T.81: the JPEG standard, marker segments in Annex B
- W3C: Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification, third edition
- Google: WebP container specification (RIFF chunks)
Figures and text last checked on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.