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📷 EXIF Viewer / Strip

Extract and display EXIF metadata (shooting date/time, GPS location, camera model, lens, ISO, shutter speed) from JPG, HEIC, TIFF, WebP, and other formats. A clean version with EXIF data removed is also available for download to protect privacy.

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Drag & drop an image, or click to select

JPG / JPEG / HEIC / TIFF / PNG / WebP

⚠️ Privacy Notice

• Images captured on smartphones may contain embedded GPS location data. We recommend removing EXIF metadata before uploading to social media or the web.

• All images are processed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

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📖 Where people get stuck

Reads the EXIF embedded in an image (capture time, GPS, camera model, lens, ISO, shutter speed and so on) inside your browser and lists it. The image is never sent to a server. Note, however, that "EXIF removed" and "no metadata left" are not the same statement. EXIF is only one kind of metadata an image file can carry; XMP, IPTC, ICC profiles and maker notes live in separate areas. And the information the photograph itself carries — a nameplate or station sign in frame, a reflection in a window — cannot be removed by any tool.

Case What happens What to do
No GPS tag does not mean the location is unknown Location can be reconstructed from things other than the GPS tag. First, EXIF often embeds a reduced-size thumbnail, and some editors leave the pre-crop image in that thumbnail — the accident where you crop out a face or a document and the thumbnail still contains exactly what you cropped away has happened for real. Next, the Wi-Fi SSID, the timezone and the capture time are all clues, and lining up the capture times of several photos lets someone infer a route. Beyond that, the filename itself (IMG_20250714_193002.jpg) and the filesystem modification time sit outside EXIF, so they survive its removal. Before publishing, check with this tool whether a thumbnail exists and what it contains. If entries like ThumbnailImage appear in the list, assume it may hold a different picture from the main image. To be certain, rebuild the image rather than deleting metadata — a re-encode removes the thumbnail and the maker notes structurally. Always rename the file to something meaningless such as photo-01.jpg. And a workflow of checking one image at a time will always break down — if you publish continuously, build a batch step into your publishing procedure, such as exiftool -all= -overwrite_in_place *.jpg.
Relying on social platforms to strip it for you The major social platforms re-encode uploaded images, so EXIF is largely dropped as a side effect. Relying on that is risky, though. Messaging apps with a "send at original quality" option, cloud storage share links, and files attached to email or chat strip nothing at all. The moment you hand something over as a file, the EXIF reaches the other party intact. More fundamentally, even when a platform removes GPS from the public copy, the platform itself received the GPS. Who can see it and whether you handed over the data are two different questions. Strip it yourself before uploading — that is the whole answer. The order matters: "send it and then delete it" does not work. In practice the most reliable step is to turn off location recording in your phone camera settings in the first place (on iOS, Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Camera; on Android, inside the camera app settings). What is never recorded can never be forgotten. For photos you have already taken, adopt a procedure where a separate folder holds anything destined for publication and everything entering it goes through the batch step. The point is to avoid making "being careful" your control.
The stripped download is a re-encode to PNG The button labelled "download EXIF-stripped copy" on this page redraws the image into a <canvas> and writes it out as PNG. That is thorough, in the sense that metadata disappears structurally, but it has three side effects. The first is file size: PNG is not a format meant for photographs, so a 3 MB JPEG coming out at around 15 MB is not unusual. The second is quality and color — the JPEG is recompressed and the ICC profile is lost, so a photo shot in a wide gamut will come out flatter and slightly shifted. The third is the extension: the output is always .png. For a single image you are about to post, that is fine, but it is not suitable for deliverables or for archiving. If you want the original format and size preserved, use a tool that removes only the metadata area — exiftool -all= photo.jpg and jpegtran -copy none never touch the pixel data. Because the image is not recompressed, quality and color are preserved exactly. Conversely, there are situations where re-encoding is the better choice: when you want to be certain of dropping steganography or unknown proprietary segments, the canvas approach that extracts only pixels is the stronger one. Which to use follows from your purpose: for privacy either works, to preserve quality use exiftool, and to neutralize an image of unknown provenance re-encode it.

Removing EXIF is not always the right move. Capture time, equipment and exposure are the provenance of the photograph itself, and in journalism, record-keeping, insurance evidence or real-estate listings, stripping them reduces the value of the image. Copyright fields (Copyright, Artist) also live in EXIF, so a blanket deletion erases your own rights notice along with everything else. Do not treat this as a choice between all and nothing — you can drop only the GPS, as in exiftool -gps:all= photo.jpg. One further practical caution: what social platforms strip is the public image, not the analytics data tied to your account. And finally, what this page shows you is only the values currently present in that file — EXIF is writable, so capture time and camera model cannot be treated as evidence.

📖 How to Use

  1. 1
    Upload an image
    Drag & drop an image or click to select a file. Supports JPG / JPEG / HEIC / TIFF / PNG / WebP. You can also paste from the clipboard.
  2. 2
    Review the EXIF metadata
    Capture date, GPS location, camera model, lens, ISO, shutter speed and more are listed. If GPS data is found, a link to Google Maps is shown.
  3. 3
    Download the EXIF-stripped copy
    Click the Download EXIF-stripped copy button to download a PNG with all EXIF metadata removed. Use this before uploading to social media to protect your privacy.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What metadata might be in my photo?
Photos may contain capture date/time, camera model, lens, exposure settings, ISO, shutter speed, flash, software, and GPS coordinates (latitude, longitude, altitude). GPS poses the biggest privacy risk.
Is my image uploaded to a server?
No. All processing happens locally in your browser using the exifr library and Canvas API. Nothing is uploaded.
Does stripping EXIF affect image quality?
This tool redraws the image on a Canvas and exports as PNG, so JPEG compression is not preserved. The visual content is unchanged, but PNG files may be larger than the original JPEG.
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