Remove Metadata
Strip the GPS, camera and timestamp tags a photo carries without telling you.
Strip the GPS, camera and timestamp tags a photo carries without telling you. Free, with no sign-up, no watermark and no upload: it all runs in your browser.
What Remove Metadata is for
A photograph off a phone records where it was taken to within a few metres, when, and which camera body took it, serial number included. None of it is visible and all of it travels with the file. This takes it out without touching the picture itself.
How to use it
- Add your files. Drop them on the page or choose them. They stay on your device.
- Set the output format and quality. The defaults suit most files.
- Press convert and save the results, individually or as one ZIP.
Questions
What is actually in my photos?
Usually GPS coordinates accurate enough to find a front door, the exact date and time, the camera or phone model and often its serial number, the software that last edited the file, and sometimes a thumbnail of an earlier version of the image. Estate agents, job applicants and anyone selling something second-hand have all published more than they meant to this way.
Does removing it reduce the quality?
No, and that is the point of doing it this way. JPEG, PNG and WebP files are edited directly: the metadata blocks are cut out and the compressed picture data is copied across untouched. Re-saving the image to drop its tags would cost a generation of quality to solve a privacy problem, which is a poor trade.
What about video?
The same idea. Video and audio files have their tags and chapters removed while the streams are copied rather than re-encoded, so it is lossless and takes about a second however long the recording is.
Do social networks not strip this already?
Most of the big ones do, on upload, after your file has reached their servers. That does not help with a file you email, put in a shared folder, attach to a listing or send in a message, and it means trusting each of them to keep doing it.
Is the colour profile removed too?
No, deliberately. The ICC profile says how the colours in the file should be interpreted, and dropping it would leave a wide-gamut photograph to be guessed at as sRGB, shifting every colour in it. It identifies nobody, so it stays.