When to use it
Remove EXIF Data strips hidden information from photos before you share them. Phone photos usually record the exact GPS location, date and time, and device details. That’s handy in your own photo library, but risky when posting to marketplaces, forums, dating sites or blogs, or emailing photos to people you don’t know well. Cleaning a photo removes those details without changing how it looks.
How to remove metadata from photos
- Tap Choose photos, or drag JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC files onto the box. You can clean several at once.
- Wait a moment while each photo is cleaned.
- Check the result: each photo lists what was removed, such as “GPS location, camera, date taken”.
- Press Download clean photo (or the ZIP for several). Files end in “-clean”.
- Press Start over for more photos.
A worked example
You’re listing a sofa on a local marketplace with three photos taken in your living room. Drop all three onto the box. The results say each contained a GPS location, the phone model and the date taken, and that these were removed. Download the clean copies and upload those. Buyers see the sofa, not your home’s coordinates. Check one in the Image Metadata Viewer if you want to confirm.
When to clean photos
- Online marketplaces and classified ads.
- Forums, blogs and review sites that keep original files.
- Dating profiles and photos sent to new contacts.
- Photos of children, your home, car or valuables.
- Files sent as attachments, which usually keep everything.
Tips
- Clean copies, keep originals. Your photo library benefits from dates and places.
- Turn off camera location on your phone if you rarely want it recorded.
- Remember what’s in the picture: house numbers, street signs and school uniforms can reveal as much as GPS. Blur them with Blur Image.
What stays
The picture itself, its size in pixels and, for JPG photos, the colour profile and the setting that keeps them the right way up. Nothing that identifies where, when or with what device the photo was taken.
Common mistakes
- Sharing the original by accident. Upload the files ending in “-clean”.
- Assuming screenshots are safe. They have little metadata but may show private details on screen.
- Relying on apps to strip data. Many do, but email and file sharing usually don’t.
Private by design
Photos are cleaned in your browser and never uploaded.
Related tools
See what a photo contains with the Image Metadata Viewer, cover details with Blur Image, or shrink photos with Compress Image.