Remove image metadata
Strip EXIF, GPS and camera data from photos before you share them.
Runs on your device. The file is never uploaded.
Remove image metadata decodes a JPG, PNG or WebP to raw pixels and encodes those pixels again. EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, thumbnails and colour profiles are never written into the new file. The format is kept, quality defaults to 92 and the name gains a -clean suffix. Anything drawn into the pixels themselves stays exactly where it is.
Questions
How does it remove the 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.
Does it change how my photo looks?
Slightly, for lossy formats. Because the file is re-encoded, a JPG or WebP 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.
Does it remove a visible watermark, a face or a date printed on the picture?
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.
What is the clean file called?
Your name with a -clean suffix and the same format, such as holiday-clean.jpg. JPG, PNG and WebP are accepted, matched on the file extension; anything else stops with "only JPG, PNG and WebP are supported". HEIC files cannot be stripped here even though View EXIF data can read them. Drop as many files as you like.
How do I check it worked?
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.