🕵️ View & Remove EXIF

Step-by-step

1. Pick a photo Drag it in or click to select. JPG is where EXIF usually lives; PNG and WebP rarely carry it, and images downloaded from social platforms have generally been stripped already.
2. Read what comes back Camera, lens, timestamp, aperture, shutter, and ISO are all listed. If GPS coordinates are present you get a red warning and a map link, so you can check straight away whether that is a place you would rather not publish.
3. Choose the output format "Keep original" is the easy choice. Pick PNG for a fully lossless result — stripping EXIF works by redrawing the image, so JPG output is compressed once more.
4. Press start You get a copy containing pixels and nothing else. Your original file is untouched, so you can keep the full-metadata version for yourself and share only the clean one.
5. Download the clean copy The filename gains a -clean suffix. To confirm it worked, drop the downloaded file back into this page and look again.

When you would use this

What is hiding in your photos

When you press the shutter, the camera saves more than the picture — it writes a block of extra data called EXIF into the file. A typical phone photo carries:

• GPS coordinates — accurate to a few metres, which is street-address precision
• A timestamp — to the second, with the time zone
• Device details — phone model, lens, sometimes a body serial number
• Capture settings — aperture, shutter, ISO, focal length
• An editing trail — which app touched it and when

Each item alone looks harmless. Together they are not. A second-hand item photographed in your living room has your home in its coordinates; a run of photos from the same place at the same hour sketches out somebody's routine.

Who actually needs to care

Sending photos to people you know is usually fine. The situations that matter are public posting: marketplaces, rental listings, forums, community groups, job applications, anonymous submissions. The audience there is strangers, and GPS coordinates are useful information to a stranger.

The other commonly missed case is sending the file directly. Attaching it to an email, sharing it from cloud storage, sending it as a "file" rather than a "photo" in a messaging app — none of those paths strip anything for you.

How this page removes it

It does not hunt through the file deleting EXIF bytes. It redraws the image onto a completely new canvas and encodes a new file from that canvas. The new file contains pixel data and nothing else, so metadata of any kind in the original — EXIF, XMP, IPTC, vendor-specific blocks — simply cannot come along.

That is far more reliable than deleting fields one by one, because you never need to know in advance which fields exist. The cost is a re-encode when the output is JPG, which is why quality defaults to 95%. If you want not a single byte of the image to change, choose PNG.

Metadata is only half the job

With EXIF gone, everything the photo actually shows is still there. House numbers in the background, street signs, school uniforms, a licence plate on the car beside you — that is picture content, not metadata, and it needs handling separately. Use Blur & Redact for that, and remember to pick solid fill rather than blur.

Frequently asked questions

What you might need next

Image work rarely ends in one step. These pair up with View & Remove EXIF most often:

• 🫥 Blur & Redact — Hide faces, plates, and personal data
• 🗜️ Compress Image — Shrink file size while keeping quality
• 💧 Add Watermark — Text watermark with position & opacity

Want to share the result? Upload turns images, photos, or videos into a short link with optional password, expiry, and view limits. Or head back to all 12 tools.