EXIF · GPS → gone
EXIF and GPS remover
Drop a photo or a video and save a copy with its metadata blocks cut out. The rewrite happens in this browser tab, so the file never leaves your device and the pixels are never re-encoded.
Only metadata blocks are cut: the pixels and the video frames are copied byte for byte. Your original is not modified — the cleaned file is saved as a new copy.
At a glance
- Price
- Free
- Account
- None needed
- Upload
- None — the file is read in your browser tab, nothing is sent to a server
- Input
- JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg, .jfif, .jpe), PNG, WebP and GIF photos; MP4, M4V, MOV, WebM and MKV videos
- Output
- A cleaned copy in the same container with its EXIF and GPS blocks removed
- File size
- 256 MB per file
- Works on
- Any modern browser
How to remove EXIF and GPS metadata
Load the photo or video
Drop the file or pick it from disk. JPEG (including .jfif and .jpe), PNG, WebP and GIF photos are read, as are MP4, M4V, MOV and WebM/MKV videos, up to 256 MB per file.
Choose what to drop
For a video the box that clears the recording date also zeroes the container times. Leave the EXIF rotation flag ticked, or portrait phone photos open sideways in viewers and editors that rely on it.
Save the cleaned copy
The page reports what it found and what a strip would drop, then saves a new file with those bytes gone. Nothing is uploaded, and the page keeps working offline once it is loaded.
What the remover cuts, and what it keeps
A photo or a video is a picture plus a wrapper of text. EXIF holds the camera make and model, the lens, the software, the capture dates, ISO, shutter and aperture, body and lens serial numbers, the owner name and often a thumbnail of the shot itself; the GPS coordinates sit beside it. Videos carry the same idea in different places: MP4 and MOV user-data atoms such as ©mak, ©mod, ©swr, ©day, ©nam and ©xyz, QuickTime and iTunes ilst keys, WebM and MKV tags, and the container creation and modification times. The report shows all of it before anything is saved.
The strip works by rebuilding the wrapper. The metadata blocks are dropped, and the rest of the file — every frame of video, every pixel of the image — is copied across untouched, so no re-encode happens and the picture stays bit-for-bit what it was. Three things stay on purpose. The ICC colour profile stays, because dropping it shifts the colours. The JFIF and Adobe markers stay, because they describe the file rather than the shot. And the single EXIF orientation flag stays while its box is ticked, because without it phone photos display sideways everywhere. HEIC and HEIF files can be read and reported here, but not rewritten.
EXIF removal questions
Which file types can lose their metadata here?
Photos: JPEG, including the .jfif and .jpe spellings, plus PNG and WebP, and GIF, where the comment and any XMP block are what get cut. Videos: MP4, M4V, MOV and WebM/MKV. HEIC and HEIF, the format an iPhone writes, can be read and reported but not rewritten here.
Does removing metadata change the picture or the video?
No pixels and no frames are re-encoded, so the image is bit-for-bit what it was and only the metadata blocks disappear — a JPEG whose EXIF block is cut is simply a little smaller. The saved copy is a new file, and the original on your device is left exactly as it was.
What is kept on purpose, and what cannot be removed?
The ICC colour profile stays, because removing it shifts colours, as do the JFIF and Adobe markers. The EXIF rotation flag stays while its box is ticked, since phone photos would otherwise display sideways. A watermark or caption burned into the picture itself stays too, because it is part of the image, not metadata, and WebM keeps the MuxingApp and WritingApp fields of its Info element.
Is there a size or file limit?
Up to 256 MB per file and 20 files at a time. Files are handled one at a time, so a video is never held in memory twice over. Everything happens in the browser tab: no upload, no queue, no account.