What your photos tell strangers
A photo from a phone can carry the spot where it was taken, the time to the second, the phone model, the editing program and sometimes the name of the owner. Share the file as it is, and everyone who gets it can read that. This page shows you what a photo holds and removes it, in your browser, without touching the picture itself.
Photos shared through some websites and messengers lose their metadata on the way, but not through all of them. E-mail attachments, cloud links and messengers that send "as file" usually pass the original on.
Cleaning photos in five steps
- Drop one or many photos onto the drop zone, or choose them. JPEG, PNG and WebP are supported.
- Look at the badges. GPS location is marked in orange. Open Show metadata to read every field, from the camera model to the coordinates.
- Decide what to keep: the rotation of the photo, the color profile, and whether data behind the end of the picture is cut off.
- The cleaned copy is made at once. The line under each photo shows the size before and after and what was removed.
- Press Download cleaned copy, or Download all as ZIP when you added several photos.
Cut out, not re-encoded
The tool does not open the picture and save it again. It reads the structure of the file, drops the blocks that hold metadata and copies everything else byte for byte. In a JPEG those are the EXIF, XMP, Photoshop and comment segments. In a PNG they are the text, time and EXIF chunks. In a WebP they are the EXIF and XMP chunks. The pixels cannot change, so the quality stays exactly the same and a 20 MB photo is done in a blink.
One detail needs care: phones often store a photo sideways and note the rotation in the EXIF block. Strip everything and the photo opens turned. So the tool keeps a new, tiny block with the rotation only, and you can switch that off.
Reading the fields
- Position is the GPS latitude and longitude, shown as numbers. The tool does not look them up on a map and contacts no map service.
- Taken is the time of the shot, as the camera clock saw it. Camera make and Camera model name the device.
- Software names the program that saved the file last. Artist and Copyright hold names that someone typed in.
- Maker note is a block of the camera maker that the tool does not decode. It can contain serial numbers, so it is removed too.
- A small preview picture inside the file is removed with the EXIF block. It can show an older version of an edited photo.
Formats and limits
GIF, TIFF, AVIF and HEIC files are not supported. For an iPhone photo in HEIC, convert it to JPEG first, for example with the image converter on this site, and clean the result. A list may hold up to 100 files of 100 MB each. Screenshots rarely carry a location, but they can hold software names and comments, so the same check applies.
Where your photos stay
On your device. The files are read in the page, cut in memory and offered as a normal download. No request is sent, which you can confirm in the Network panel of your developer tools.