Remove EXIF Data from Photos

A photo carries two kinds of information: the pixels and the metadata around them. Metadata is the part you cannot see — the camera, the lens, the shutter speed, and often the exact coordinates where the picture was taken.

This page removes EXIF data or rewrites it, and leaves the pixels alone.

What metadata can reveal

• Where the photo was taken. GPS coordinates are often precise to a few metres, and they travel with the file when it is posted, mailed or uploaded.
• When and how it was taken. The camera model, lens, exposure settings and timestamp are all stored alongside the image.
• Who edited it. Some editors write their name into the software tag.

None of this is needed by a viewer, and all of it can be removed here.

Remove only the location

Choose Remove GPS location and every image in the batch loses its coordinates. Everything else stays: the camera, the timestamp, the orientation. This is the usual choice when you want to share a photo without publishing where it was taken.

An image with no GPS data is reported as such rather than counted as changed.

Clear everything

Clear all EXIF drops the whole metadata block, including the camera and timestamp. The orientation tag is kept on purpose: without it, some viewers would rotate an already-upright photo a second time.

Write your own fields

The fields section writes Copyright, Author and Date taken into every image. Empty fields are skipped, so you can add a copyright line without erasing the existing shooting date. Date taken is stored in the EXIF format, which is what most software reads.

Why the picture is unchanged

Other tools decode the image and re-encode it as JPG just to change its metadata. That costs quality, and it flattens transparency in PNG and WebP files. This tool edits the file’s header directly and copies the compressed image data untouched, so a PNG stays a PNG and a JPEG keeps its original quality.

How to use it

1. Drop in a batch. JPG, PNG and WebP are read; anything else is refused with a reason.
2. Pick an action. Remove GPS, clear all EXIF, or fill in the fields and apply them.
3. Check each card. It reports whether the file had GPS data and whether the rewrite succeeded.
4. Download. Save files one by one, or take the whole batch as a ZIP.

To inspect a single photo before editing it, open the DPI and metadata checker. To change the print resolution instead, use the DPI converter. If the cleaned file still has to clear an upload limit, image compression comes next; to change the container rather than the metadata, use the format converter.