# Remove EXIF Data from Photos

Remove EXIF, GPS location and camera data from a JPG or PNG without re-encoding it. The pixels are copied across untouched and nothing is uploaded.

Canonical page: https://filetity.com/remove-exif

## Capabilities

- Free: Yes, with no watermark and no page limit.
- Account required: No. There is no account system.
- Processed on device: Yes. The file is read by your browser and never uploaded. There is no server to send it to.
- Formats: JPG and PNG in, the same format out, several at a time. Other formats are refused rather than rebuilt, because rebuilding changes the pixels.
- 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.
- Mobile: Yes, on any modern mobile browser. Large files are limited by the memory the phone gives the browser.
- Offline: Yes, once the page has loaded. The tool keeps working with no network connection.

## Questions

### 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.

## Related tools

- [Rotate Image](https://filetity.com/rotate-image): Turn a photo the right way up, and mirror it if you need to.
- [Image Compressor](https://filetity.com/image-compressor): Compress an image to a size you name, or to a quality you pick, and see the real result before downloading.