Remove EXIF Data & GPS Location From Photos — Without Uploading
See and remove hidden metadata from your photos: GPS location, camera model, date taken and more. Lossless for JPG, PNG and WebP, and your photos are never uploaded.
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What your photos reveal
A photo taken on a phone can carry dozens of hidden details. The most sensitive is the GPS position: post a picture taken at home, and anyone who downloads the original file can find your address. Metadata can also reveal the exact date and time, your phone model, the software you edited it with, and sometimes your name.
How this tool removes it
- Shows you first what each photo contains — location, camera, date, software and author — before removing it.
- Removes it losslessly for JPG, PNG and WebP: metadata is cut out of the file and the image data is copied unchanged, so quality is exactly preserved.
- Handles hidden images — many phone JPGs carry extra embedded images, each with its own location data. They are removed too.
- Keeps the rotation so photos still display the right way up.
- Checks its own work by reading the cleaned file back and confirming no location or camera data remains.
Why do it in your browser
Uploading a photo to a website to strip its location means handing that location to the website first. This tool runs entirely on your device: the photo is read into memory, cleaned, and handed back to you, with no network request involved. You can verify it by disconnecting from the internet after the page loads.
Stopping location tagging at the source
On an iPhone, open Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera and choose Never. On Android, open the Camera app's settings and turn off location tags; the exact wording varies by manufacturer. iPhones also let you turn off location for a single photo when sharing it: tap Options at the top of the share sheet and switch off Location.
Frequently asked questions
What is EXIF data?
EXIF is information your camera or phone saves inside every photo: the date and time, the camera and lens, the exposure settings — and, if location services were on, the exact GPS position where the photo was taken, often accurate to a few metres.
Does removing metadata reduce photo quality?
Not for JPG, PNG and WebP. The tool cuts the metadata out of the file without decoding or re-compressing the image, so the pixels are byte-for-byte identical to the original. Other formats, such as HEIC or GIF, are re-encoded to JPG at high quality, which the tool tells you when it happens.
Won't my photo appear sideways afterwards?
No. Phones record which way is up in the same metadata block as the location. Removing that block naively makes portrait photos display sideways, so this tool keeps a tiny metadata block containing only the rotation — nothing that identifies you or the place.
Don't social networks remove this anyway?
Many large social networks strip location data from photos when you post them. But email attachments, cloud-storage links, photos sent as files or documents in messaging apps, and many forums, marketplaces and personal websites keep the original file — metadata included. Cleaning photos yourself means you don't have to know which is which.
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Last updated September 25, 2026