EXIF Remover
Strip location and camera data before you share a photo.
Drop a photo here
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC or AVIF. The file is read on your device and never uploaded.
Reading the file…
That didn't work.
This browser can't display that file, but its metadata has been read all the same.
Your photo never leaves your device, and the pixels are copied unchanged — only the metadata is dropped.
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About the Pathine EXIF Remover
Strips the hidden record out of a photograph — camera, lens, timestamps, serial numbers and, most importantly, the GPS coordinates of where it was taken — and hands back a clean copy.
The important part is how. Almost every other tool does this by redrawing the photograph through a canvas, which drops the metadata as a side effect and silently re-encodes the image: quality is lost, and the file often comes back larger. This one copies the original bytes and simply omits the metadata segments — or, in a HEIC or AVIF, overwrites them where they sit — so the compressed image data is carried across untouched. The pixels are identical to the ones you started with.
Colour profiles are deliberately kept. An ICC profile is not personal information, and removing one shifts the colours of the photograph — which is a change you did not ask for.
When you'd reach for it
Posting a photo taken at home
A picture of something for sale, taken in your kitchen, can carry the coordinates of your kitchen. Stripping the metadata first is the difference between selling a bike and publishing your address.
Sending photos to someone you don't know
Marketplace buyers, landlords, contractors. The picture is the point; the timestamps, the camera serial number and the location are not.
Publishing images on a site
Product and property photography routinely ships with the photographer's equipment details and the shoot location embedded. Usually nobody intended that.
Anonymising before sharing publicly
Journalists, researchers and anyone posting a photo of a place they would rather not be tied to. Removing the metadata is a smaller step than blurring, and often the one that matters more.
How to remove EXIF data from a photo
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Add the photo
Drop it here, paste it, or choose a file. It is read on your device — nothing is uploaded, which matters rather a lot for this particular job.
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See what is actually in there
The fields are listed before anything is removed, including the location if the file carries one, so you know exactly what you are stripping.
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Download the clean copy
The tool names what it removed and shows the size before and after. Your original file is untouched — the download is a new copy.
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Check it if you like
Run the result back through the EXIF Viewer. It should report that the file carries nothing at all.
Common questions
Does removing EXIF reduce image quality?
Not here. The photograph's compressed data is copied across byte for byte and only the metadata segments are left out, so the pixels are identical. This is worth checking elsewhere: tools that re-save the image through a canvas do lose quality, and frequently produce a bigger file than they started with.
What exactly gets removed?
Everything except the picture and how to draw it: EXIF (camera, exposure, timestamps, GPS), XMP (editing history and captions), IPTC (rights and description fields), Content Credentials, free-text comments, PNG text fields and timestamps, and vendor data blocks nothing needs to display the image. The colour profile is the one thing kept, on purpose — it is not personal data, dropping one changes how the photograph looks, and the tool says when it kept one.
Does it work with iPhone HEIC photos, PNG and WebP?
Yes, and AVIF too. PNG and WebP are handled like JPEG: the metadata blocks are left out of the copy, so the file gets smaller. HEIC and AVIF locate every part of the picture by its exact byte position, so cutting bytes out risks a photograph that no longer opens; there the metadata is overwritten where it sits instead. The location and camera details are gone just the same, the picture is untouched, and the file stays the same size — the tool says which of the two it did.
Does it remove Content Credentials (C2PA)?
Yes. Images from ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly and a growing list of cameras carry a signed C2PA manifest recording what made them and, for generated images, that they were AI generated. It is shown before it is removed, so you can see what it said. Some sites read it to label a picture as AI generated; taking it out removes that record, not the fact.
Does this remove the location?
Yes. GPS coordinates live in the EXIF block, so they go with it. The viewer shows you whether a location was present before you strip it, and you can confirm the result afterwards.
Don't social networks strip this anyway?
Most strip it from what they publish — after receiving the original, which they keep. It also does nothing for photos you send by email or message, or upload anywhere else. Removing it yourself means the data was never handed over.
Can the removed data be recovered?
Not from the clean copy — those bytes are simply not in the file. Your original still has everything, so keep it if the dates or settings matter to you.
Is the photo uploaded?
No. Everything happens in this browser tab. A tool whose purpose is to stop a photograph leaking private information should not begin by sending it to a stranger's server.