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Remove EXIF data from photos

Your photos are processed in this tab and never sent anywhere. Nothing is uploaded, stored or logged.

A photo carries far more than the picture: camera make and model, the body's serial number, the exact time it was taken, the editing software, and often a small thumbnail of the original frame before you cropped it. This removes that metadata without re-encoding the image, so the visible quality is untouched.

Drop your files here

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how your file is handled

  • It is read, not uploaded. The file is opened by JavaScript running in this tab and processed in memory, in a background worker.
  • The page cannot send it anywhere. This site is served with a Content-Security-Policy whose connect-src is 'self', so no script on the page is permitted to contact another server, even by mistake.
  • You can check it yourself. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab and convert a file: nothing is sent. Or turn off your Wi-Fi first, because these tools keep working offline.

how to use it

  1. 01Drop your photos onto the box above. Several at once is fine.
  2. 02Review what was found. Serial numbers, GPS and embedded thumbnails are listed first.
  3. 03Download the cleaned files, individually or as a zip.

questions

Does stripping metadata reduce image quality?
No. JPEG metadata lives in labelled sections that sit alongside the compressed image data rather than inside it, so they can be removed without decoding and re-encoding the picture. The tool hashes the image data before and after and shows you that the two match, which means not one pixel changed.
Will my photos come out rotated?
Not here. Orientation is stored as an EXIF tag, so naively deleting all EXIF makes portrait photos display sideways. This keeps a minimal orientation-only tag when the original had one, and discards everything else.
Is removing the EXIF section enough to be private?
On its own, no, and that is a common gap. Identifying data also hides in XMP, in IPTC inside a Photoshop section, in plain comment fields, and in secondary images such as depth maps or gain maps that some phones append after the main picture. All of those are removed too, and the result is re-scanned afterwards to confirm.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. Everything happens in this tab. The site is static with no server component, and its Content-Security-Policy restricts connect-src to 'self', so the page cannot transmit your photos anywhere. Turning off your Wi-Fi and stripping a photo anyway is the quickest proof.

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