See what your photos reveal, then remove it. On your device.
A photo file holds more than pixels. Cameras and phones also write a block of notes into it, called EXIF. It can include the camera make and model, the date and time the picture was taken, the software that saved it, and, if location was switched on, GPS coordinates. Some files carry two more kinds of notes, XMP and IPTC, which editing programs and photo libraries use for captions, keywords and credits. This tool reads the start of each file and lists what it finds before you remove anything. For a JPEG it can show the camera, the date, whether a location is stored and, only if you ask, the coordinates themselves, on this screen. It also names other hidden blocks it sees, such as a comment, text notes or a colour profile, without showing what is in them. The list is not complete for any format. A file can hold data in places this page does not read, so the page never tells you that your original is clean.
Coordinates in a photo can point to a street, a house or a workplace. A picture of a parcel on a doorstep, a child at school or a bike in a garage can give away more than you meant to share. The date and time say when nobody was home. The camera model and the editing software are smaller clues, but they help link several pictures to one person. None of this shows in the picture itself, which is why it is easy to forget. If you post or send a photo as a file, whoever receives it may be able to read these notes. Checking a photo first tells you what is actually inside before you decide.
The tool does not edit the notes inside your file. It decodes the picture and draws it again onto a blank canvas, then saves that canvas in the same format: JPEG, PNG or WebP. Only the pixels reach the canvas, so the notes in the original are not carried over. This has costs, and the page states them. Every photo is re-saved, so the pixels change very slightly. JPEG copies are saved at quality 95, so the difference is small, but it is not zero. The photo's own colour profile is not kept, and some browsers write a standard one of their own. The rotation flag that phones store is applied first, so a portrait photo stays upright. A copy can also come out larger or smaller than the original, and the result row shows both sizes. The tool then walks the blocks of the new file and says no EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, comment or text blocks were found only when that walk reaches the end of the file and finds none. That line reports what the walk looked for; it is not a promise about every byte. A colour profile written by the browser is named but not inspected.
Many apps and websites remove location data from photos you post, but not all do, and the rules change between apps, versions and the way you share. This page does not list which ones. It also cannot tell what happens to a photo after you hand it over. The safe habit is not to rely on the receiving end. A copy you cleaned yourself is the same wherever it goes, whether you attach it to an email, add it to a form, or send it as a file. The limits are worth knowing. Only the file is cleaned: a street sign, a face or a house number in the picture stays visible, and so does anything you type in a caption. Nothing here is uploaded. The page counts visits with Google Analytics using rough groups, never a file name, an image or a coordinate.
Yes. The copy is drawn fresh from the pixels, so the GPS block is not carried over. The tool then walks the blocks of the new file and shows the line No EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, comment or text blocks were found in the cleaned file, but only when that walk reaches the end of the file and finds none.
Slightly. Removing metadata means re-saving the picture, so a JPEG is saved again at quality 95 and a WebP at the same setting. The photo's own colour profile is not kept and rotation is applied to the pixels. A PNG is saved without lossy compression, but it is still redrawn, and its colour profile is not kept either.
No. The photo is read and redrawn by your browser in this tab. Nothing is sent to a server, and the coordinates you can reveal on screen are not sent to a map or a lookup service. The page counts visits with Google Analytics, using rough groups such as 1 to 10 MB, never a file name or an image.
A screenshot usually carries little or no EXIF. The tool lists what it finds at the start of the file and does not check the rest, so it never tells you the original is clean, and it never hands the original back. Download the cleaned copy: it is drawn again from the pixels and then checked.
Yes, up to 50 files at a time in JPEG, PNG or WebP. Each file is listed with what was found before you press the button. JPEG gets the most detail; for PNG and WebP only the kinds of hidden blocks are named. With two or more copies you get a single zip, named like photo-clean.jpg and photo-clean-2.jpg when names repeat. HEIC, GIF and RAW files are not supported.