PHOTO -> NO METADATA · Local tool
Remove EXIF Data from Photos
Remove EXIF, GPS and camera data from photos without touching the pixels.
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How do I remove GPS location data from a photo?
Strip the file's EXIF block, which is where a phone writes the coordinates. filetity does it in your browser by rewriting the container rather than the picture: a JPEG's metadata lives in its own marker segments, so those are dropped and the compressed pixels are copied across bit for bit, with nothing decoded, nothing re-encoded and no quality lost. It lists what each file was carrying first, including whether there was a GPS location in it, and warns when a photo had an orientation tag, because removing that can make the copy display rotated. Nothing is uploaded, which is the only sensible way to remove a location from a file.
01 / Your device
the file stays here
02 / Browser memory
the work runs locally
03 / Back to you
saved on this device
When you would use this
Situations, not settings.
- A photo going to a stranger from a marketplace listing
- A picture of a sofa taken in your living room carries the coordinates of your living room. Removing them takes a second and cannot be undone afterwards.
- Images going onto a website you run
- Metadata is dead weight in a page and a small privacy leak. Taking it out here keeps the compression exactly as your editor left it.
- Photos handed over as evidence of something
- The camera model, the software history and the timestamps are all in the file. Sometimes that is the point and sometimes it is more than you meant to send.
How it works / no cloud
A conversion engine, not an upload form.
The obvious way to strip metadata is to draw the photo on a canvas and export it again, which works and quietly re-encodes the whole image: a JPEG that was already compressed gets compressed a second time and loses a little more. So this does surgery on the container instead. A JPEG is a sequence of marker segments with the pixels in one of them, and a PNG is a sequence of chunks with the same property, so the segments carrying EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC and comments are dropped and everything else is copied byte for byte. The file comes out smaller by exactly the bytes it names, and the compressed pixels are bit for bit the ones you started with.
- Offline ready
- Installable app
- No file limit queue
Straight answers
No accordion. Nothing hidden.
- Is it free?
- Yes, with no watermark and no page limit.
- Does it need an account?
- No. There is no account system.
- Is my file processed on my device?
- Yes. The file is read by your browser and never uploaded. There is no server to send it to.
- What formats are supported?
- JPG and PNG in, the same format out, several at a time. Other formats are refused rather than rebuilt, because rebuilding changes the pixels.
- What are the limits?
- The orientation tag is metadata too, so a photo taken sideways loses the flag that tells a viewer to turn it. That is reported per file when it applies.
- Does it work on mobile?
- Yes, on any modern mobile browser. Large files are limited by the memory the phone gives the browser.
- Does it work offline?
- Yes, once the page has loaded. The tool keeps working with no network connection.
- What is actually in my photo's EXIF?
- The date and time to the second, the make and model of the camera or phone, the lens, the exposure, the ISO, the software that last touched it, and on most phones the GPS coordinates of where you were standing. This page lists what it found in each file before it removes it, so you can see what was travelling with the photo.
- Does this reduce the quality of the photo?
- No, and that is the point of doing it this way. Nothing is decoded and nothing is re-encoded, so the compressed image data is copied across bit for bit. A tool that strips metadata by re-saving the picture costs you a generation of JPEG quality every time, and it will not tell you that it did.
- Why is my photo sideways now?
- Because the flag telling viewers to turn it was part of the metadata. Phones record the picture the way the sensor saw it and add an orientation tag, so removing every tag removes that one. This page says which files were affected, and the rotate image tool will bake the correct rotation into the pixels so the file no longer needs a tag.
- Do social networks not strip this anyway?
- Most large platforms do strip EXIF when they re-encode an upload, and that does not help with everything else: a file emailed, sent as a chat attachment, put in a shared folder or handed to a client keeps every field. It is also not a promise any of them make to you, and it says nothing about what they read before stripping it.
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