Remove image metadata

By decoding the picture to raw pixels and encoding those pixels again with the jSquash codecs. Metadata is not edited or blanked; it is simply never written into the new file. That removes every block at once, including EXIF, GPS, camera and lens details, timestamps, IPTC, XMP, any thumbnail and any embedded colour profile.

Slightly, for lossy formats. Because the file is re-encoded, a lossy format is compressed again at the Quality option, which defaults to 92, so there is a small generation loss. A PNG is re-encoded losslessly and looks identical. The pixel dimensions never change.

No. Anything drawn into the pixels is part of the image and stays exactly where it is. This tool only affects data stored alongside the pixels. To hide something visible, use Pixelate / blur region, and to cut it out of the frame, use Crop image.

Your name with a -clean suffix and the same format, such as holiday-clean.jpg. Every format Convert image reads is accepted, matched on the file extension; anything else stops with a message naming your file and the formats that are readable. A HEIC is stripped and handed back as holiday-clean.jpg, since nothing here writes HEIC. Drop as many files as you like.

Run the result back through View EXIF data. A stripped file reports "no EXIF data". Doing it in that order also tells you what was in there to begin with, which is worth knowing before you share the original anywhere. All of this runs in a Web Worker on your device with nothing uploaded.