EXIF Viewer & Remover

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a block of information cameras and phones embed inside a photo: the make and model of the device, the date and time it was taken, exposure, aperture, ISO and lens, and — if location services were on — the exact GPS coordinates where the shot was taken. None of it is visible in the picture, but it travels with the file. Removing it protects your privacy before sharing a photo publicly, strips the home or workplace location a GPS tag can reveal, and makes the file a little smaller. This tool shows you exactly what is embedded, then removes it.

No — the remover does not re-encode or recompress your image — it performs byte-level surgery, deleting only the metadata segments (EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments, and PNG text chunks) while copying the compressed pixel data through untouched. The result is pixel-for-pixel identical to the original, just without the hidden information. That is different from tools that re-save the image, which can soften it slightly; here the picture quality is guaranteed to be exactly the same.

No — your photo never leaves your browser. Everything runs locally using JavaScript — your photo is read, inspected and cleaned entirely on your own device and is never sent to a server, logged or stored. It would defeat the purpose to upload the file in order to make it private. The tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded, and closing the tab clears everything.

The remover handles JPG and PNG, the two formats that carry the metadata people most want gone. In a JPG it removes the EXIF and XMP blocks (APP1), the IPTC/Photoshop block (APP13) and any comment segments, while keeping the JFIF and ICC colour-profile data so the image still renders identically. In a PNG it removes tEXt, zTXt, iTXt (which can hold software names and captions), the eXIf chunk and the tIME chunk. For iPhone HEIC photos, the HEIC to JPG converter already strips location and EXIF as it converts.

You don't need a different tool for each device — this remover runs in any modern browser, so it works the same on iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. On a Mac you can also open a photo in Preview and use Tools ▸ Show Inspector to delete location data; on Windows, right-click ▸ Properties ▸ Details ▸ "Remove Properties and Personal Information". Those built-ins are handy but only cover some fields. On iPhone and Android there's no one-tap EXIF stripper for a saved file, so a browser tool like this is the simplest cross-platform option — and because it runs on your device, the photo is never uploaded.

Yes — stripping the GPS location is one of the main jobs this tool does. If a photo contains GPS coordinates, the viewer flags them prominently with a link to the exact spot on a map, so you can see what the file would reveal, and the remover deletes the entire GPS block along with the rest of the EXIF. This is the safe way to share a photo taken at home, at school or at work without disclosing where that is. Some social networks strip EXIF on upload, but many messaging apps, email attachments and cloud links do not — so removing it yourself first is the reliable option.