Remove EXIF Data

How to remove EXIF data from photos

1. Add your JPG, PNG or WebP files; several at once is fine.
2. Choose how to handle the orientation tag for photos taken sideways (see below).
3. Click Remove metadata.
4. Download the cleaned files and, if you like, confirm with the Image Metadata Viewer.

Lossless removal

Instead of redrawing and re-encoding the image, this tool deletes the metadata sections directly from the file: EXIF, XMP and IPTC blocks in JPEGs, text and EXIF chunks in PNGs, and EXIF and XMP chunks in WebP files. The compressed image data itself is left exactly as it was, so there is no quality loss at all.

The orientation catch

Phones often save sideways shots unrotated and add an orientation tag telling viewers to turn the picture. Removing that tag can make such photos appear on their side. The tool can bake the rotation into the pixels for those files so they stay upright everywhere. This requires re-encoding just those photos at high quality; all other files are cleaned losslessly.

What gets removed

GPS coordinates, camera make and model, serial numbers, timestamps, software names, embedded preview thumbnails, captions and copyright fields are all removed. If you want to keep your authorship visible, add it to the picture itself with Watermark Image. iPhone HEIC photos can be cleaned by converting them with HEIC to JPG, which does not copy metadata. Cleaned files are often slightly smaller too, because thumbnails and metadata blocks can take up tens of kilobytes.

Frequently asked questions