EXIF Privacy Cleaner

How to use the EXIF Privacy Cleaner

Drag and drop or click to upload any photo. The tool instantly inspects your image for hidden EXIF metadata including GPS coordinates, camera model, and other device information. When you're ready, hit Download Cleaned & Private Photo to save a version with all metadata stripped out.

Why strip photo metadata?

Every phone photo can carry hidden data: GPS coordinates, the exact date and time, your camera or phone model and sometimes a serial number. Stripping it before you post a photo to a marketplace, forum or email keeps your home address and daily routine out of the file.

Step by step: clean a photo

1. Drop a JPG, PNG or WEBP photo onto the panel.
2. Review the metadata the tool finds — especially any GPS location.
3. Click to remove the metadata.
4. Download the cleaned image and share that copy instead of the original.

Quick reference

Hidden metadata	Why it matters
GPS location	Can point to your home or workplace
Date and time	Reveals routines and when a home is empty
Device and serial number	Links a photo to one specific device
Editing software	Shows the image has been edited

Sharing photos safely

• Keep the original file; stripping metadata rewrites the image, so work on a copy.
• Many social networks strip metadata on upload, but email attachments, forums and cloud links often keep it.
• Clean photos before selling an item online — a picture of a bike can include the exact pickup address.
• Removing metadata does not affect image quality; only the hidden tags are dropped.

Is it private and secure?

Yes. All processing happens entirely inside your browser using HTML5 Canvas re-encoding. No image data is ever uploaded to any server. Your photos never leave your device.