EXIF Remover

What this tool does

EXIF Remover cleans personal and technical metadata out of JPG, PNG and WebP files by cutting out the metadata segments directly, so image quality is untouched. Keep the colour profile and orientation if you like, and clean dozens of photos in one go.

A photo shared as an original file can reveal where it was taken, when, with which device and sometimes the device serial number or the owner's name. That is a privacy risk when selling items online, sending pictures of your home or publishing images on a personal website.

Instead of redrawing the image, which would re-compress it, this tool parses the file structure and removes the metadata blocks: APP1 EXIF and XMP, APP13 IPTC, comments and other application segments in JPEG; tEXt, iTXt, zTXt, eXIf and tIME chunks in PNG; EXIF and XMP chunks in WebP, with the WebP header flags and RIFF size corrected. The compressed pixel data is copied byte for byte. Formats that cannot be edited this way are re-encoded as PNG or JPG, which also discards all metadata.

How to use EXIF Remover

1. Add your photos by dropping, browsing or pasting them.
2. Decide what to keep: the ICC colour profile and the JPG orientation flag are kept by default.
3. Leave Remove trailing data on to delete hidden extra images appended after the JPEG data.
4. Choose how other formats such as HEIC, AVIF or GIF are handled.
5. Press Remove metadata and read the list of removed blocks for each file.
6. Download the cleaned files or press Download all (ZIP).

Tips for better results

• Check a file with the EXIF Viewer before and after to see exactly what was removed.
• Keeping orientation writes back a tiny EXIF block containing only the rotation flag, so portrait photos stay upright and nothing personal remains.
• The ICC profile only describes colours; removing it from Display P3 phone photos can make them look duller.
• Cleaned files keep their original format and gain a -clean suffix so you do not overwrite the originals.

Common use cases

• Removing home GPS coordinates before listing items on a marketplace.
• Publishing photos on a blog without exposing camera serial numbers.
• Sending images to a journalist or lawyer with the device details removed.
• Reducing file size slightly by dropping embedded thumbnails and maker notes.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Forgetting that visible content, such as a house number or street sign, can still reveal a location.
• Removing orientation from phone photos, which can make them display sideways.
• Cleaning a copy but sharing the original by accident; check the file name ends in -clean.