EXIF Privacy Cleaner

View and strip EXIF metadata from photos. Remove GPS location, camera info, and other privacy-sensitive data from JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF images

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About EXIF Privacy Cleaner

Every photo your phone or camera saves carries a hidden manifest — GPS coordinates down to the meter, the camera make and model, exposure settings, lens serial number, the editing software used, and a creation timestamp accurate to the second. For a portrait it's harmless trivia; for a photo of your child at a park, the apartment you're selling on Craigslist, or a sample image attached to a job application, it's a precise map of where you live, work and travel. Social platforms strip most of it, but file-sharing, email attachments and cloud sync usually don't.

This EXIF privacy cleaner shows you exactly what's inside an image and rewrites it with the metadata stripped. The View action surfaces every tag — camera body and lens, GPS latitude/longitude/altitude (with a Google Maps link so you can see precisely what would have leaked), the date the shot was taken, the editing chain that touched it, and any embedded thumbnails that often retain GPS even after a half-hearted edit elsewhere. The Clean action removes all of it without re-encoding the pixels — image quality stays identical, file size shrinks by the metadata bytes, and a before/after summary tells you exactly what came off (number of tags removed, whether GPS was present, remaining technical tags). For batches, drop up to 20 images at once and download a zip of cleaned originals.

Use it before posting selling photos to a marketplace, before emailing a portrait to a recruiter, before uploading screenshots from a "where do I live" angle, before forwarding kid photos to extended family, or during journalism workflows where source identification through EXIF is a real threat. Supports JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF, files up to 20 MB each, and every image is discarded from the serverless function immediately after the response.

EXIF Privacy Cleaner Use Cases

  • Selling on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace without leaking your home address
  • Parents sharing kid photos to family chats without exposing daycare locations
  • Recruiters and applicants exchanging portraits without leaking commute home addresses
  • Journalists and activists protecting source devices and shoot locations from EXIF
  • Real-estate agents posting listing photos without source-camera fingerprints
  • Bloggers and creators batch-cleaning 20-image carousels before publishing
  • Anyone forwarding screenshots that quietly carry editing-app and device fingerprints

EXIF Privacy Cleaner Features

  • View every EXIF tag — camera body, lens, GPS lat/lon/altitude, timestamps, editing chain — before deciding to clean
  • Strip all metadata in one pass without re-encoding pixel data — image quality stays bit-identical, only the metadata bytes are dropped
  • GPS detection with a Google Maps link so you can see exactly what coordinate would have leaked
  • Batch mode handles up to 20 images per submission, returned as a zip of cleaned originals
  • Supports JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF — the four formats that actually carry meaningful EXIF in the wild
  • Before/after summary shows tag count removed, GPS presence, file-size delta and the remaining technical tags
  • Files up to 20 MB processed in a stateless serverless function and discarded immediately after the response

How to Use EXIF Privacy Cleaner

Upload an image

Drag-and-drop a JPEG, PNG, WebP or TIFF (up to 20 MB) into the upload zone. For a quick batch, switch to Batch mode and select up to 20 images at once — the cleaned files come back as a single zip download.

View what's inside

Click View to see the EXIF tag table — camera make and model, lens, exposure, ISO, GPS latitude and longitude (if present), date taken, software chain. If GPS is detected, a Google Maps link appears showing the exact coordinate.

Click Clean

Clean rewrites the file with every metadata block removed but the pixel data byte-identical — there's no re-encoding, so JPEGs don't suffer generation loss and PNG palettes stay untouched. The before/after summary lists what was removed.

Verify the summary

The result panel shows tags removed (a count), whether GPS was present, original vs cleaned file size and any remaining technical tags (image dimensions, colour profile — things readers need to display the file).

Download the cleaned image

Single-image mode offers a single download button; batch mode bundles up to 20 cleaned files as a zip. Open the result in your usual tool and verify the EXIF tab is empty before sharing.

EXIF Privacy Cleaner FAQ

No. Uploads are processed in a stateless serverless function and deleted immediately after the response. Nothing is logged to durable storage, no thumbnails are cached, and the cleaned image is delivered straight back as a download. For maximum paranoia in a journalism or activism context, run a local exiftool pass after to double-check (or use a fully in-browser tool like MetaClean) — but the surface area here is small.

No. The cleaner rewrites the file at the container level, removing EXIF/IPTC/XMP/ICC chunks but leaving the pixel data byte-identical. JPEGs are not re-encoded (no generation loss), PNG palettes and bit depth are preserved, WebP and TIFF pixel arrays pass through untouched. File size drops by the metadata bytes — usually 30 KB to 200 KB for a typical phone photo.

20 MB per individual file, and up to 20 files per batch. This covers raw smartphone exports, mid-resolution camera JPEGs and most marketplace-bound product shots. Multi-hundred-megapixel TIFFs from medium-format cameras can exceed 20 MB — for those, exiftool locally is the right tool.

EXIF (camera/lens/exposure/GPS), IPTC (caption, copyright, byline), XMP (Lightroom and Photoshop's preferred metadata block), MakerNotes (vendor-specific EXIF extensions like Nikon, Canon and Sony shooting modes), embedded thumbnails that often still carry GPS even when the main EXIF block is edited, and any orphan APP markers in JPEGs. The ICC colour profile is preserved by default so colours render correctly.

MetaClean and similar fully in-browser tools do all processing locally with no upload — the lowest-trust option. This tool uses a stateless serverless function so it can handle TIFF and edge-case formats reliably plus show GPS on a real map and produce a structured before/after diff. Pick the in-browser option if upload-to-anyone is a hard no; pick this one if you want the diagnostics and batch convenience.

Not currently — supported formats are JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF. iPhone HEIC files carry the same EXIF risks but the HEIF container needs a different decoder. The simplest workaround is to share-as-JPEG from the Photos app first (Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible, or use the share sheet's 'Compatible' export), then clean the JPEG with this tool.

Yes. Image dimensions, colour profile and the data needed to render the file are preserved. Some technical EXIF tags remain (orientation flag, colour space) because removing them would change how viewers display the image. The before/after summary lists exactly what stayed; everything privacy-sensitive (GPS, MakerNotes, timestamps, software chain, embedded thumbnails) is gone.

Supports JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF formats, max 20MB

Select an image to view or clean its EXIF metadata

Use the same file selected in the "View EXIF" tab, or select a new one there first.

All EXIF metadata will be stripped from the image, including GPS location, camera info, timestamps, and more.

All metadata will be stripped from each image

EXIF Privacy Cleaner Tutorial

Why Clean EXIF Data?

Photos taken with smartphones and cameras contain hidden metadata (EXIF data) that may include:

  • GPS Location: Exact coordinates where the photo was taken
  • Camera Info: Device model, serial number
  • Timestamps: When the photo was taken
  • Software: Editing software used

Sharing photos with this data can compromise your privacy.

How to Use

  1. View: Upload an image to inspect all EXIF metadata
  2. Clean: Strip all metadata and download a clean copy
  3. Batch: Clean up to 20 images at once

Supported Formats

  • JPEG / JPG
  • PNG
  • WebP
  • TIFF / TIF