View, remove or edit photo EXIF data
See the camera, date, location and serial numbers inside a photo. Nothing changes until you choose to remove or edit them, and the picture is never re-encoded. Everything happens on your device.
Drop a photo, or click to choose
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC or AVIF.
How it works
- Choose a photo. JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC or AVIF. The browser reads its bytes on your device.
- Read what it carries. EXIF, GPS, XMP and IPTC fields appear under plain headings (Location, Author, Camera, Date, Software), with anything personal marked. Every field as stored sits behind a disclosure for the detail. Nothing in the file changes while you look.
- Remove or edit, then download. Remove everything, only the location, or tick fields one by one. Or edit the date taken, artist, copyright, description or GPS position. The new copy is read back so you see exactly what it holds before you save it.
What photo metadata gives away
Phones and cameras write a block of EXIF data into every photo. Most of it is harmless exposure detail, but a few fields say more about you than the picture does.
| Field | What it can reveal |
|---|---|
| GPS latitude and longitude | Where the photo was taken, often to a few metres |
| Date and time taken | When you were there, with the time zone |
| Camera maker and model | Which phone or camera you own |
| Body and lens serial numbers | A number that links every photo from one device |
| Artist, Copyright, Author | Your name, if the camera or an app wrote it in |
| Software and edit history | Which apps touched the picture |
| Embedded preview | A small copy that can show the photo before it was cropped |
Changed without touching the pixels
Many tools strip metadata by drawing the photo onto a canvas and saving it again. That works, but it re-compresses a JPG (a little quality lost each time) and drops the colour profile, so colours can shift. This tool edits the file's structure instead: it takes out or rewrites only the metadata segments and chunks and copies the compressed image data byte for byte. The picture you download is the same picture, in the same format, at the same quality.
When you remove everything, two things stay on purpose. The colour profile stays so colours look the same. And if your phone saved the photo sideways with a “turn this” tag, a one-line orientation tag stays so the photo does not appear on its side; it holds nothing about you.
It runs in your browser
Your photo is read, cleaned and edited on your device and is never uploaded. That matters most for exactly the photos you want to check: ones taken at home, of your family, or of documents. The map link appears only when a photo has a position, and it opens openstreetmap.org in a new tab only if you click it.
What it does not do
- HEIC and AVIF files can be read but not cleaned or edited here. Convert the photo to JPG and its metadata is left behind.
- Metadata is not the only giveaway. A street sign, a face or a screen in the picture says where you were; blur those areas before sharing.
- Some sites remove location data when you upload and some keep it. Cleaning the photo first means you do not have to rely on either.
Popular uses
- Remove location from photo: Take the GPS position out of a photo and keep the date and camera details.
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