Free Online EXIF Viewer and Remover
Your photo is decoded and edited in this tab. It stays local, including whatever its metadata says about where it was taken.
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How it works
Dropping segments, not re-encoding
A JPEG file is a chain of marker segments: EXIF sits in APP1 behind the identifier Exif\0\0, XMP in a second APP1, the ICC colour profile in APP2, and free text in COM. The image itself is separate entropy-coded scan data. Removing metadata is therefore a byte-level edit — drop the marker segments you do not want and write the rest through untouched — so the pixels come out bit-identical. Tools that strip EXIF by drawing to a canvas and re-saving recompress the whole image and lose the ICC profile with it. This keeps ICC, so colours do not shift.
- APP1 / Exif
- The main block: capture time, exposure, ISO, focal length, camera make and model, and often the lens and body serial number.
- GPS IFD
- Latitude and longitude as degree-minute-second rationals with N/S and E/W references, plus altitude — typically accurate to a few metres.
- MakerNote
- A vendor-private block inside APP1. Undocumented and frequently the largest tag, holding shutter count and per-body settings.
- ICC profile (APP2)
- Kept. It tells a viewer how to interpret the colour values, and discarding it is what makes stripped photos look washed out elsewhere.
- Orientation
- Lives in the same APP1 as GPS, so stripping removes it too. A photo that relied on the tag to display upright is flagged before you strip it.
How to use it
How to view and remove EXIF data online
- 01
Drop the photo in
It is parsed in the page. Nothing is uploaded, which is rather the point here.
- 02
Read the full tag list
GPS coordinates are shown as decimal degrees so you can see exactly what is there.
- 03
Download the cleaned file
Metadata segments are dropped and the scan data is copied through byte for byte.
Where it earns its keep
Where photo metadata matters
- Removing home GPS coordinates before posting photos of something you sold online.
- Checking whether an image you were sent still carries its original capture location.
- Cleaning client photographs of camera serial numbers before they are published.
- Confirming a capture date and camera body when the file's provenance is in question.
Questions
EXIF Viewer & Remover, answered
Does stripping EXIF change the image quality?
No, and that is the design. The compressed scan data is copied through unmodified, so the pixels in the cleaned file are byte-identical to the original. Only the metadata segments are gone.
Do social networks already remove this?
Most strip EXIF on upload, but not all, and not on every path — original-quality uploads, direct messages, cloud drive links and email attachments frequently keep the full block. Assuming it was handled for you is how coordinates end up published.
Is my photo uploaded to be inspected?
No. The file is parsed and rewritten in this browser tab. A tool that asked you to upload a photo to find out whether it leaks your location would be a strange thing to trust.
Can it remove metadata from PNG and WebP too?
Yes, by the equivalent mechanism — PNG tEXt, iTXt and eXIf chunks, and the EXIF and XMP chunks of a WebP RIFF container. Formats outside JPEG, PNG and WebP are not handled.