asantoolRemove metadata from an image
Photos carry more than the picture. A phone writes the camera model, the date and time, the settings, and often the exact GPS coordinates where the shot was taken. This shows you everything hidden in your file, then removes it — without touching a single pixel of the image.
Drop a photo to see what's hidden in it
JPG · PNG · WebP · GIF · BMPUp to 50 MB · Your files never leave your device4 steps, no waiting.
- 01Add your photoDrag a file onto the page or pick one from your device. It is read in your browser, not uploaded.
- 02See what's in thereThe tool lists every field it finds — camera, lens, timestamps, editing software, and GPS coordinates if location was switched on.
- 03Remove itThe file is rebuilt without those sections. The compressed image data is copied across untouched, so nothing is re-encoded.
- 04DownloadThe saved file holds the picture and nothing else, and decodes to exactly the same pixels as the original.
Common questions
What exactly gets removed?
Everything the camera wrote alongside the picture: make and model, the date and time it was taken, exposure and lens settings, orientation, software used, and GPS coordinates if location was on. The output keeps only the pixels.
Why would a photo contain my location?
Most phones record GPS coordinates into every photo by default. It is invisible in the picture but readable by anything that opens the file, which means a holiday photo or a marketplace listing can reveal exactly where you were standing.
Does removing metadata change how the photo looks?
Not at all. This is not a re-save. The tool rewrites the file's structure without the metadata sections and copies the compressed image data across byte for byte, so the result decodes to pixels identical to the original. Re-encoding a photo to strip its metadata — which is how most tools do it — quietly costs you quality and can even make the file bigger.
What about the rotation flag?
That one is worth knowing about. A photo taken sideways is often stored sideways with a flag telling viewers to rotate it, and that flag is metadata. If your photo has one, removing it would leave the picture displaying the wrong way up — so the tool detects this and says so instead, and points you at the editor, where rotating bakes the correction into the pixels.
Which formats does it handle?
JPEG, PNG and WebP, which is where camera and phone metadata actually lives. The tool reads each format's container directly rather than relying on the browser to re-encode it.
Is my image uploaded anywhere?
No. The work happens in your browser using image APIs it already ships with, so the file never leaves your device. There is no upload to wait for and nothing stored on a server afterwards.