EXIF Data Viewer & Remover
See what metadata is hidden in your photo — camera, GPS location, timestamp — and strip it.
EXIF Data Viewer & Remover
Drop a photo here or click to browse
JPG photos usually carry the most metadata
How to Use
- Drag and drop a photo onto the drop zone, or click to browse.
- Review the metadata found — camera details, date taken, and GPS location if embedded.
- Click "Show all raw metadata tags" to see the complete unfiltered data.
- Click Download Without Metadata to save a clean copy with all EXIF data stripped.
Frequently Asked Questions
QDoes my photo get uploaded to a server?
No. Metadata is read and stripped entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your photo is never uploaded anywhere.
QWhy would a photo contain my GPS location?
Most smartphones embed the exact GPS coordinates where a photo was taken into its EXIF data by default. If you share the original file online, anyone who downloads it can see where it was taken.
QHow does the "remove metadata" step actually work?
The photo is redrawn onto a blank HTML5 Canvas and re-exported as a new file. Canvas re-encoding does not carry over EXIF metadata, so the output file has none — regardless of what the original contained.
QDoes removing metadata reduce image quality?
The pixel data itself is unaffected. Re-encoding to JPG uses a high quality setting (95%) to keep any recompression loss imperceptible.
About This Tool
Metadata is parsed client-side using the exifr JavaScript library, which reads JPEG/TIFF EXIF, GPS, and IFD segments directly from the file bytes. The "remove metadata" step draws the decoded image onto an HTML5 Canvas and re-exports it — canvas re-encoding inherently discards all EXIF/XMP/IPTC metadata, providing a reliable strip regardless of what tags were originally present.