EXIF Viewer & Remover
See what your photo is secretly carrying — then clean it before you share.
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or drag it here
JPG, PNG, or WebP photos
Your files stay on your device
What this does
Drop a photo here to see its hidden info, like where and when it was taken. Remove it without changing the picture. Your photo stays on your device.
Photos carry more than the picture. Your phone or camera quietly saves extra info inside the file — called EXIF — like the date and time, the camera model, and often the exact spot where you took it. You can’t see it, but anyone you send the file to can read it.
Drop a photo onto the box above. You’ll see everything it’s carrying, with anything that could identify you marked. Click Remove hidden info and save the clean copy. The picture itself stays exactly the same.
Posting photos online, selling something, or sending pictures taken at home? It’s worth a quick check first.
What your photos can reveal
Not every photo has all of these. It depends on the camera and its settings.
| Info | What it reveals |
|---|---|
| GPS location | Where the photo was taken, often within a few metres |
| Date and time taken | When you were there, to the second |
| Camera make and model | Which device — enough to link different photos to one owner |
| Camera and lens serial numbers | Your exact camera, not just the model |
| Owner or artist name | Your name, if the camera was ever set up with it |
| Software | Which app edited the photo |
| Small preview image | A tiny copy of the original photo — which may still show what you cropped out |
Good to know
Some photos keep a tiny preview of the original inside them. If you cropped something out, the preview may still show it. Removing the hidden info removes the preview too.
This only removes the hidden info. Anything you can see in the picture — a street sign, a house number — stays visible.
The colour profile is kept by default. It helps colours look right and says nothing about you.
FAQ
Can anyone else see my photo while I check it?
No. Your photo is read and cleaned on your device and never sent anywhere — which matters here, since it might show your home address.
Does removing the info lower the picture quality?
No. The picture stays exactly the same. The only exception is if you ask it to fix a sideways photo, and it tells you first.
Why did my photo turn sideways after cleaning it somewhere else?
Phones often store “which way is up” in the hidden info. Remove it and the photo can flip. This tool spots that and offers to keep it upright.
Don’t social networks remove this already?
Most big ones do, but not all, and not always. Email attachments and file-sharing links usually keep everything, so it’s worth checking.
Which files work?
JPG, PNG, and WebP. For iPhone HEIC photos, convert them to JPG first, then clean them here.
Can I get the info back afterwards?
No, so keep your original if the date or camera settings matter to you.
How it worksFor the curious
A JPEG is a sequence of length-prefixed segments, a PNG a sequence of chunks, and a WebP a RIFF container. This page walks the file structure to find the EXIF, XMP, IPTC, PNG text chunks, and vendor blocks, rather than decoding the image.
Removing them is a rewrite of the container, not a re-encode. Drawing the image to a canvas and saving it again would also strip the metadata, but it would throw away the original compression and cost a generation of quality. Here the metadata segments are omitted and the compressed image data is copied across byte for byte.
Phones often store portrait photos as landscape pixels plus an EXIF Orientation tag. Removing the metadata removes that instruction, so a correctly cleaned photo can appear sideways. When a file is affected, the tool offers to rotate the actual pixels instead — the one case where it re-encodes, and it says so.
The embedded EXIF thumbnail is written at capture and not always updated by editors, which has caused real disclosures of cropped-out content. It is removed along with everything else. The ICC colour profile is kept by default, because dropping it visibly shifts colours on wide-gamut images.
HEIC is not supported, because removing its metadata here would require re-encoding. Convert it with HEIC to JPG first and clean the result. And nothing encoded into the pixels themselves — visible watermarks, printer tracking dots, steganography — can be removed by stripping metadata.