EXIF Viewer & Remover
See what a photo is quietly carrying — camera, timestamp, sometimes the exact spot it was taken — then strip it out.
JPEG carries the most metadata. Nothing is uploaded.
Read in your browser. The image is never uploaded — safe for confidential photos.
What EXIF is, and why it matters
Almost every photo a camera or phone produces carries a block of metadata called EXIF, embedded in the file alongside the pixels. It records the make and model of the camera, the exposure settings, the software that last touched the file, the exact date and time — and, if location services were on, the latitude and longitude to within a few metres.
None of that is visible when you look at the picture. It travels with the file when you email it, attach it to a listing, or send it to someone you have never met.
The location problem
GPS coordinates are the part worth caring about. A photo taken at home and posted publicly carries a home address in a form anyone can read with a tool like this one. It's a well-documented way people have been located from a single innocuous image.
Many large platforms — Facebook, Instagram, X, Reddit — strip EXIF when you upload, so a photo posted there is usually clean. What is not cleaned: files sent by email, direct message, cloud-drive link, or attached to a classified-ad listing. Those keep everything.
How this tool removes it
The stripped copy is built by walking the JPEG's internal segment structure and dropping the metadata blocks — EXIF, XMP, IPTC, Photoshop and comment segments — while leaving the compressed image data byte-for-byte untouched. That matters: it means no re-encoding and no quality loss. The common trick of redrawing a photo onto a canvas does remove metadata, but it also re-compresses the image and degrades it.
Orientation is worth one warning. Some photos are stored rotated with an EXIF tag telling viewers to turn them the right way up. Removing that tag can make such an image appear sideways. This tool tells you when the orientation tag is doing real work, so you can decide.
What it can't see
PNG and WebP files can carry metadata too, but in different containers, and they rarely hold GPS data. This tool reads EXIF proper, which in practice means JPEG and TIFF. If a PNG shows nothing here, that is usually accurate rather than a failure.