🔒 How to Remove Metadata From Your Photos

Every photo you take carries a hidden layer of information called metadata. Some of it is harmless. Some of it can reveal exactly where you live. This guide explains what's in there and how to remove it before you share — in a few clicks, without uploading your photos.

What your photos secretly reveal

A typical phone photo can contain:

• GPS location — the exact latitude and longitude where it was taken, often accurate to a few metres.
• Date and time — down to the second.
• Device details — the camera or phone model, lens, and settings.
• Editing software — what was used to process it.

You can see exactly what one of your photos exposes with our EXIF viewer — it reads the file in your browser and shows everything inside, including a map link if there's a location.

The biggest risk: location

The standout privacy concern is GPS. Post a photo taken at home — or sell something online with a quick snapshot — and the coordinates can point a stranger straight to your front door. If you only remove one thing, remove this.

Our Remove GPS Location tool strips just the location tags while keeping the photo and its date intact. It's the right choice when you still want the date and camera info but not the "where".

Removing everything

To anonymise a photo completely — for a forum, an anonymous report, a marketplace listing — use Remove All Metadata. It wipes location, date, device and software, leaving only the image. Importantly, this doesn't re-compress the photo, so there's no quality loss — the file just becomes lighter and anonymous.

Doesn't social media do this already?

Some platforms strip some metadata when you upload, but it's inconsistent, varies by platform, and does nothing for files you share directly over email, messaging or a USB stick. Removing metadata yourself first is the only reliable way to know a photo is clean.

A simple habit

1. Before sharing anything sensitive, drop it into the viewer to see what's there.
2. Remove just the location if you want to keep the rest, or strip everything for full anonymity.
3. Share the cleaned copy with confidence.

Because all of this runs in your browser, even sensitive photos never leave your device — which is exactly what you want from a privacy tool.