clean exif data from photos online

Protect your privacy by stripping GPS coordinates, camera models, and timestamps from your images before sharing them online.

Privacy Photo Cleaner

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Why You Should Clean EXIF Data From Photos Online

Every time you take a photo with a smartphone or digital camera, hidden information called EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data is embedded into the file. While this data is useful for photographers to track camera settings, it often contains sensitive personal information. Our tool allows you to clean exif data from photos online instantly, ensuring your privacy is protected before you upload images to social media or public forums.

What Kind of Metadata is Hidden in Your Images?

Metadata is more than just the date a photo was taken. It can act as a digital fingerprint, revealing:

  • GPS Location: The exact latitude and longitude where the photo was snapped.
  • Device Information: Your phone model, camera brand, and serial numbers.
  • Camera Settings: ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and flash usage.
  • Software Details: The editing software used to process the image.

By using a metadata viewer, anyone can see this info. Stripping it is the best way to stay anonymous.

The Privacy Risks of Sharing Uncleaned Photos

Sharing a photo of your new home or a vacation spot might seem harmless, but if the GPS data is still attached, you are essentially sharing your home address or current location with the world. Stalkers, advertisers, and data miners use this information to build profiles on users. Cleaning your photos is a simple yet powerful step in digital hygiene.

Our tool works similarly to an exif viewer but in reverse—instead of showing you the data, it scrubs it clean. This is especially important for journalists, activists, or anyone concerned about their physical safety.

How Our Metadata Stripper Works

Unlike other online tools that upload your files to a server, our privacy photo cleaner processes everything locally in your browser. When you "clean" an image, we draw the pixels onto a virtual canvas and then save that canvas as a new file. Since the canvas only understands pixels and not metadata, the resulting image is a "clean" copy with zero hidden tags.

If you are also looking to optimize your images for the web, you might want to use our lossless image compressor after stripping the metadata to ensure fast loading times without sacrificing quality.

Protect Your Digital Footprint

In an era where data is the new currency, taking control of what you share is vital. Whether you are selling items on Craigslist, posting on Reddit, or sending photos to strangers, always take a second to scrub image data. It takes less than five seconds and provides peace of mind that your private details remain private.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, our Remove Image Metadata tool is 100% free with no hidden costs or limits on the number of photos you can clean.

Absolutely! You can use this tool on any modern smartphone (iPhone or Android) directly through your mobile browser to clean photos before sharing them on social apps.

No. We value your privacy. All image processing is done locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your photos are never uploaded to our servers.

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