Classified ads
Photos of an item for sale are usually taken at home. Stripping GPS avoids publishing where you live alongside the listing.
Remove EXIF metadata
Remove hidden info (location, camera) from a photo.
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What it is for
Every photo a phone takes carries far more information than you can see. That is the EXIF block: phone model, exact date and time, camera settings and, in many cases, the GPS coordinates of where it was taken. All of it travels with the file when you share it.
The consequences are not theoretical. Posting a photo taken at home can reveal the address to within metres. Selling something online with pictures taken at your address leaves that information available to anyone who knows how to look inside the file. Large social networks usually strip metadata on upload, but email, messaging apps that send as a file, and classified-ad sites frequently do not.
This tool redraws the image from scratch, copying only the pixels. The result looks exactly the same but carries no hidden data, because the new file is built clean rather than trying to erase fields from the original.
How it works
- Upload the photo you want to strip metadata from.
- Click "Process": the image is redrawn from scratch, without copying any hidden data.
- Download the clean copy, ready to share without location or camera info.
When to use it
Posting photos of other people
When sharing images with others in them, removing location and date protects their privacy too.
Sending paperwork
A photo of a document does not need to carry your phone model or the place you took it.
Practical tips
- Check what a photo carries by opening its properties or details in your file browser: camera, date and any location appear there.
- The only way to be sure is to clean before sharing. Once the file is sent, there is no taking it back.
- The cleaned image is visually identical; any size difference comes from recompression, not lost content.
- Removing metadata does not remove what is visible in the photo. A street sign in shot is still there: that is solved by cropping or pixelating.
Frequently asked questions
What exact information gets removed?
The entire EXIF block: camera model, exact date, and above all GPS geolocation if your phone recorded it when taking the photo.
Does the photo look any different visually?
No, the visual content is identical; only the hidden data that isn't visible when looking at the image disappears.