Remove Image Metadata

Photos leak. A picture taken on a phone with location services enabled records the coordinates where you were standing, accurate to a few metres, and carries them into every copy of the file you send. Sell something online with photos taken at home and the listing can tell a stranger your address. The metadata also holds the device you used, the software you edited with and the exact second the shutter fired.

This tool removes all of it. The image is decoded to raw pixels and re-encoded from scratch, so everything wrapped around those pixels — EXIF, GPS, camera and lens details, timestamps, editing history, embedded thumbnails and colour profiles — is simply not carried across. That is a more complete removal than editing individual fields, because there is no chance of missing a block you did not know was there.

Before it strips anything, it shows you what was in the original, which is worth reading once: most people are surprised by how much a photo knows about them. The picture itself is unchanged in size and dimensions, so the cleaned file drops into the same places the original would have. Nothing is uploaded — the file never leaves your device, which is rather the point of a privacy tool.