Every phone photo carries invisible data: the camera model, the date and time, and usually the GPS coordinates of where it was taken. Before selling something online or posting a photo of your home, remove that data. The tool below shows what your photos hide and creates a clean copy in your browser, without uploading anything.
Remove photo metadata →What your photos say about you
A photo taken with a phone usually stores more than pixels: camera make and model, date and time, editing software, and often the exact GPS coordinates of the shot. Shared as-is on a marketplace or social network, one photo can reveal where you live, when you were there and what device you use. Some platforms strip this data when you post; many second-hand sites, forums and email attachments keep it intact.
Check what a photo hides
- Open the metadata removal tool linked below.
- Choose a photo (JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP or HEIC). Nothing is uploaded: the check runs on your device.
- The tool lists the metadata categories it finds: camera, GPS location, date and software.
- Decide if you are comfortable sharing what you see.
Create a clean copy
- With the photo loaded, start the cleaning.
- The tool re-encodes the image in your browser, writes a copy without the metadata and checks the copy to confirm nothing is left.
- Download the clean copy and share that one. Keep the original with its data for yourself.
What cleaning cannot do
Removing metadata does not anonymize the image itself: faces, car plates, street names or documents visible in the pixels are still there. Also note that GIF and SVG are not supported, because re-encoding them would drop the animation or the vector format, and HEIC photos come back as JPG.
Keep your originals. Conversion creates a new copy; metadata, HDR and extra frames are not retained.
Questions, answered
Does deleting metadata change how the photo looks?
No. The copy keeps the same pixels and dimensions. Only the hidden data attached to the file is removed. For JPG and WebP the image is re-encoded at high quality and the difference is not visible.
Do social networks already remove this data?
Some do, some do not, and their policies change. Messaging apps and marketplaces are inconsistent. If you want certainty, share a copy you cleaned yourself instead of trusting each platform.
Can I clean a whole batch of photos at once?
Yes. Load several photos and each one gets a clean copy, ready to download one by one or as a ZIP.
Where does my photo go when I check it?
Nowhere. Detection, cleaning and verification all run in your browser on your device. No photo or filename is sent to any server.
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