EXIF and Metadata Remover

No. The file is read and rewritten entirely in your browser using its raw bytes, and the cleaned copy is built locally. Nothing is uploaded, which is what makes this safe for private or sensitive images.

No. The process is lossless. Only the metadata segments are stripped; the compressed pixel data is copied through byte for byte, so the picture looks pixel-for-pixel identical to the original.

For JPEG, the EXIF and XMP (APP1), IPTC and Photoshop (APP13) and comment (COM) segments, which is where GPS, camera model and edit history live. For PNG, the tEXt, zTXt, iTXt, eXIf and tIME chunks. The JFIF header, ICC color profile and image data are always kept.

JPEG and PNG, the two raster formats that commonly carry this metadata. Other formats such as HEIC, TIFF or WebP are not accepted and will not be modified.

EXIF often pins the exact latitude and longitude where a photo was taken along with device details that fingerprint your gear. Stripping it stops strangers from geolocating you when you post images publicly.

Yes. The ICC color profile in a JPEG is treated as image data, not metadata, so it is preserved. Colors render the same in a color-managed viewer after cleaning.

Usually a little. The tool shows the before and after sizes and the bytes removed. Savings depend on how much metadata was present; a heavily tagged photo shrinks more than a bare one.

The tool reports that no metadata was found and that the image is already clean. You can still download a fresh copy, which will match the original since there was nothing to strip.

No. It only removes structured metadata segments, not pixels. A watermark burned into the image or data hidden inside the pixel values stays because the pixel data is never altered.