EXIF viewer and metadata remover
See every EXIF, GPS, IPTC and XMP field hidden in a photo, and save a copy with all of it removed.
Or choose them. Files are processed in this tab and never uploaded to any server.
A phone photo records far more than the picture: the camera and lens, the exact second it was taken and, unless you turned it off, the GPS coordinates of where you were standing. This reads all of it with exifr — EXIF, GPS, IPTC captions and credits, XMP edit history, even the colour profile — and puts the fields that matter at the top. Then it can hand you a clean copy, redrawn so that not one metadata tag of the original is left in it, before you post the photo or send it to a stranger.
How it works
- exifr reads JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, PNG and WebP by fetching only the header chunks it needs, so even a large photo is parsed almost instantly.
- The summary pulls out camera, lens, capture time, exposure, and GPS position with an OpenStreetMap link, followed by every raw field grouped by segment.
- The clean copy is decoded with its EXIF rotation applied and re-encoded from the pixels alone, so it stays the right way up after the orientation tag is gone.
Where your data goes
Nowhere. This tool runs entirely in your browser: the text you paste is processed by the page and is never transmitted to a server or written to a log.
This tool is free and needs no account. Its results exist only in your open page and are not saved anywhere.
What it costs
This tool is free, with no sign-in and no points.
Common questions
- Do WeChat or social networks remove the location from my photos?
- Most large platforms strip EXIF when they recompress an upload, but sending a photo as an original file, attaching it to an email or putting it in a cloud drive usually keeps everything. Checking the file here before you share it is the only way to be sure what it carries.
- Does removing metadata reduce quality?
- PNG copies are lossless. JPEG and WebP copies are re-encoded at quality 92, which is visually indistinguishable but not bit-identical, and the embedded colour profile is dropped, so wide-gamut photos can look slightly less saturated. For lossless stripping, run exiftool -all= on the original.
- Why is there no clean copy for my HEIC photo?
- Chrome and Firefox cannot decode HEIC images, so there are no pixels to redraw; the metadata is still read and shown. Safari decodes HEIC and produces the copy, or you can export the photo as JPEG first.
The open-source behind it
This tool runs on MikeKovarik/exifr, released under MIT. If you need the same behaviour inside your own program, that is the library to reach for.
MikeKovarik/exifrAlso known as
- exif viewer
- photo metadata viewer
- remove exif data
- check photo gps location
- strip metadata from image
- exif data online