EXIF Data Viewer & Remover

Upload an image to view its metadata (camera settings, GPS location, etc.) and optionally remove it for privacy.

What this page reads, and what it removes

Phone and camera files often carry a metadata block beside the pixels. That block can include the camera or phone model, exposure settings, software name, capture time, and GPS coordinates. The table above shows the tags this page could parse into text, numbers, or dates. GPS latitude and longitude are shown as decimal degrees rounded to six places, not as the original degrees-minutes-seconds string.

“Strip Metadata & Download” does not edit the original file in place. It draws the decoded bitmap onto a canvas and saves a new PNG. A PNG written from pixel data does not carry the JPEG/HEIC metadata container, so the camera block and GPS block are left behind. The original file on your device is unchanged.

Worked example: a listing photo

Suppose you photographed a room with a phone and the file is living-room.jpg.

  1. Select the file. If the table shows GPSLatitude and GPSLongitude, those numbers can place the photo near the address where it was taken.
  2. Also look for Make, Model, and DateTimeOriginal. Those are not a map pin, but they still describe the device and when the shutter fired.
  3. Click “Strip Metadata & Download”. Save cleaned_living-room.png.
  4. Select that PNG in the same file input. The expected result is an empty metadata table, or no original GPS row. If the original GPS values reappear, do not publish that download.

Use the cleaned PNG for the public listing. Keep the original JPEG if you still need the camera data for your own archive.

Limits you should not ignore

  • The browser must be able to decode the file. Many HEIC, RAW, and some TIFF files fail here even though a desktop photo app can open them.
  • An animated GIF becomes one still frame. Transparency and the original compression are not guaranteed to survive the PNG redraw.
  • The cleaned file can be larger than the JPEG because PNG is a different encoding, not a smaller privacy filter.
  • This is not a forensic wipe of every byte a specialist tool might recover from the original, and it does not remove text, faces, or license plates that are visible in the picture.
  • A missing table does not prove a file never had metadata. It means this parser did not return displayable tags. Always re-check the downloaded PNG.

After you are satisfied with the metadata check, a visible credit can be added with the text watermark tool. That step is separate and does not inspect EXIF.

Privacy

Parsing and the canvas redraw happen in the browser. This tool does not upload the selected image to a processing server. Advertising and cookies on the website are separate; they are described in the privacy policy and cookie policy.

The preview address is a temporary object URL for the current tab. It is released when you leave the page. The downloaded PNG stays wherever you saved it.

Questions about this remover