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EXIF Viewer & Remover

Read the date, camera model and GPS coordinates hidden inside a photo, then save a copy with the metadata removed. If location data is present, the tool says so straight away. Your images never leave this device.

Drag & drop photos here or click to choose files (JPEG / PNG / WebP, multiple allowed)

Nothing is re-encoded: the pixels are copied as they are, so JPEG quality is untouched. Dropping the orientation flag as well can make a portrait photo appear sideways, so by default that one field is kept.

How to Use

  1. Add photosDrag & drop JPEG, PNG or WebP files, or click to choose them (several at a time is fine).
  2. Look insideDate taken, camera, lens and GPS are listed field by field. Location data is flagged in red.
  3. Save a clean copyUse “Download without metadata” for each file, or take them all at once as a ZIP.

About This Tool

Every photo from a phone or a camera carries a second layer of data next to the pixels: when it was taken, which device took it, and — if location services were on — exactly where you were standing. Post that file to a marketplace or a social account and the coordinates of your home or office can travel with it. This tool lists all of it and puts a red banner on anything with GPS. You can open the coordinates on a map to check them, and only that click sends the two numbers to an outside map service.

Removal happens without re-encoding. For JPEG the EXIF (APP1), XMP, IPTC and comment segments are dropped and the already-compressed scan data is joined back together; for PNG the tEXt, iTXt, eXIf and tIME chunks go; for WebP the EXIF and XMP chunks go and the VP8X feature flags are rewritten to match. The pixels are never touched, so re-saving costs you no quality. The ICC colour profile is kept by default, since removing it can shift the colours. Camera MakerNotes and the embedded thumbnail — which sometimes still shows the picture as it was before cropping — are removed along with everything else.

Reading, parsing and stripping all happen inside the browser; no image is sent to a server (once the page has loaded it works offline). HEIC files from an iPhone are not supported — export them as JPEG first, or use the Image Resizer or WebP Converter to produce a supported file.

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