Remove EXIF Data

See what a photo reveals — location, camera, date — and remove it without re-saving the image.

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Keep orientation

Photos carry more than the picture: where they were taken, the camera and its serial number, the date and time, and the software that edited them. Add photos to see everything they record, then download copies with all of it removed, or only the location. JPG, PNG and WebP files are cleaned without re-saving the image, so not a single pixel changes. Photos are read on your device and never uploaded.

What a photo can reveal

Location. Phones record a GPS position with each photo when location access is on for the camera, precise enough to pick out a building, and can add the altitude and the direction the camera faced. Photo apps and agencies add place names (city, state, country) in XMP or IPTC. A few photos taken at home are enough to show where you live.

Camera. Make, model and lens, and on many cameras a serial number, which links every photo taken with that camera to the same owner. Some cameras also store an owner name.

Date. When the photo was taken, often with the time zone offset, and when it was last edited.

Other. Descriptions, captions, author and copyright; an embedded preview image, which an editing app can leave as it was before cropping; the prompt and settings that AI image generators write into PNG text; and Content Credentials (C2PA), a signed record of how the image was made.

Each field is listed under its group with where it is stored (EXIF, XMP, IPTC or the format's own text), the name its standard gives it, such as DateTimeOriginal, so it can be checked against other EXIF readers, and whether the chosen option removes it or keeps it. The list also says plainly when a file records no location.

How to use it

Remove — All metadata (the default) removes every field the list shows except the colour profile, which decides how the colours look, and the orientation while Keep orientation is on. Location only removes the GPS position and place names and keeps every other field: camera, dates, captions and copyright stay.

Keep orientation (on by default) keeps the one tag that tells apps to turn a photo upright. Phones store many photos on their side; without the tag, they show that way.

Add up to 50 files at once. Each downloads with -no-metadata or -no-location added to its name, or all of them together as a ZIP. A file with nothing to remove downloads as the original, and says so.

HEIC and AVIF files cannot yet be cleaned without re-saving them, so they are re-saved at quality 92: HEIC as JPG; AVIF as AVIF where the browser can save it, otherwise as WebP or JPG. This loses a little detail, and each file says so. With Location only, a re-saved JPG or WebP keeps its camera details and dates, without its embedded preview, maker notes, XMP and IPTC; a re-saved AVIF keeps no metadata, and says so.

How it removes metadata without re-saving

An image file is a series of blocks: some hold the image, others hold metadata. The tool copies the image blocks byte for byte and leaves the metadata blocks out, so the picture is exactly the original's. Tools that redraw the image instead re-compress it and lose detail.

Location only edits blocks in place rather than dropping them. The GPS section of the EXIF is zeroed and unlinked, and XMP and IPTC place names are taken out, while every other field, the camera maker's notes and the embedded preview keep their exact positions. Content Credentials are removed whole, since any change to the file breaks their signature and they can record the location. Extra images stored after a JPG (HDR and depth data) stay unless they could record the location, which a motion photo's video can; then they are removed and the file says so.

Examples

A GPS position, as the tool shows it

Stored in EXIF: 19° 4′ 34.56″ N, 72° 52′ 39.6″ E
Shown as: 19.076267, 72.877667
Degrees, minutes, seconds: 19° 4′ 34.56″ N, 72° 52′ 39.6″ E
Map link: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=19.076267&mlon=72.877667#map=16/19.076267/72.877667

EXIF stores degrees, minutes and seconds; the tool also shows decimal degrees, the form map sites take. The map link opens OpenStreetMap only when clicked, and opening it sends these coordinates to OpenStreetMap.

Location only, on a photo with Content Credentials

Remove: Location only
Note on the result: Also removed whole, as it may hold the location: Content Credentials (C2PA).

The GPS position and place names are removed in place; the Content Credentials go whole, since they could record the location and no longer match the edited file anyway.

Where each format keeps metadata

The blocks each format stores metadata in, all removed with All metadata, and what the tool always keeps

Format	Metadata removed	Always kept
JPG	EXIF (APP1), XMP (APP1), IPTC (APP13), comments, Content Credentials (APP11), extra images or video after the image	Colour profile (APP2), print resolution (JFIF), Adobe colour transform
PNG	EXIF (eXIf), XMP and other text (tEXt, zTXt, iTXt), last-modified time (tIME), Content Credentials (caBX)	Colour profile and colour chunks, transparency, print resolution, animation
WebP	EXIF, XMP, Content Credentials and any other chunk	Colour profile, transparency, animation

Frequently asked questions

Not for JPG, PNG or WebP: the image data is copied unchanged, so the photo is identical, only smaller by the metadata removed. HEIC and AVIF files are the exception: they are re-saved, which loses a little detail.

Keep orientation was off. Many phone photos are stored on their side with a tag telling apps to turn them; with the tag removed, apps show the photo as stored. Turn Keep orientation on and download it again.

No. It removes the fields that record a location: the GPS position and the city, state, country and sub-location fields. A place named in a description, caption, keyword or the file name stays. Use All metadata to remove captions too, and rename the file if its name gives the place away.

The tool removes recorded data, not what the picture shows. A street sign, a landmark or a view from a window can still give a place away.

No. Your browser reads, cleans and saves the images on your device; they are not sent to CornerTools or anyone else. To check, open the browser's developer tools at the Network tab and add an image: no request carries it. The first HEIC photo you add downloads a decoder from this site: a download to your browser, not an upload of your photo.