EXIF Viewer & Remover

Every photo from a phone or camera carries a hidden layer of text called EXIF metadata. The camera writes it automatically at the moment of capture: the device make and model, the exact date and time, exposure settings like shutter speed and ISO, the editing software used, and, when location services were on, GPS coordinates precise enough to identify a building.

The format dates back to the 1990s, designed so cameras and printers could exchange technical details. Photographers still rely on it to study their settings, and photo apps use it to sort libraries by date and place. The data itself is useful, the surprise is that it travels invisibly with the file.

This tool reads all of it in your browser and lays it out plainly. If coordinates are present, a clear warning appears, because that single field is the one with real-world consequences.

The risk case is concrete. A photo taken at home and posted with its metadata intact can carry your address as a pair of coordinates. A marketplace listing photographed in your living room, a pet picture from the backyard, a child's drawing photographed at the kitchen table, each can quietly say where you live, when you were there, and what device you own.

Some platforms strip metadata on upload and some do not, and policies change without notice. Direct routes, email attachments, cloud drive links, and file transfers, generally hand over the file exactly as it is. The dependable approach is not memorizing which platform does what, it is stripping the data yourself before the file leaves your hands.

The inspection here is also the fastest way to check a photo you received or downloaded, revealing when it was really taken and what edited it, which is occasionally illuminating.

For JPG photos, the clean copy is produced without touching the image itself. Metadata lives in separate labeled segments inside the file, and the tool removes those segments byte by byte while copying the pixel data through untouched. No re-encoding happens, which means genuinely zero quality loss, and the cleaned file even shrinks slightly by the size of the removed data.

One technical block is deliberately kept: the color profile. Stripping it would visibly shift the photo's colors on wide-gamut screens, and it contains nothing personal. Everything else goes, camera identity, timestamps, location, software traces.

Other formats like PNG and WebP take a different route, the image is re-drawn into a fresh PNG, which carries none of the original metadata. Either way the tool works entirely in your browser. For a metadata remover that is the whole point: a service that uploads your photo to strip its location data has already received your location data.

Strip before anything public: social posts, marketplace listings, forum uploads, files sent to strangers. The clean copy looks identical and carries nothing but the picture. It also pairs naturally with the other preparation steps, shrink with the Image Resizer or compress with the Image Compressor after cleaning, both of those output fresh files without the original metadata anyway.

Keep the original files in your own archive. Capture dates drive photo library sorting, and the technical settings are how photographers learn from their own shots. Metadata is only a liability when it leaves your control.

Two cases worth knowing. Screenshots contain little metadata to begin with, so an empty result there is normal. And photos exported from messaging apps usually arrive pre-stripped, the app removed the data in transit, which the viewer here will confirm in seconds.