Remove EXIF and GPS data from photos
Photos from phones hide your GPS location, the time they were taken and your camera model. Drop them here to see what's inside and remove it, without re-saving the picture, so quality stays exactly the same. Your photos never leave your device.
Drop photos hereChoose photos
Location and camera details are removed on your device.
Your files stay on this device. Nothing is uploaded.
How to remove EXIF and GPS data from photos
Add your photos
Add JPG, PNG or WebP photos on this page: drop them on the blue box or choose them from your device. Add as many as you like.
See what was removed
Each photo lists what it contained, such as GPS location, camera model or the date it was taken, and is cleaned in a fraction of a second.
Download the clean copies
Download photos one by one or all together as a ZIP, ready to post or send.
Remove location from photos: details
- Removes
- EXIF (GPS, camera, date, software), XMP, IPTC, comments and PNG text, also from images stored inside the photo, such as HDR gain maps and depth maps
- Motion photos
- The short video part is removed, because it carries its own location; the still photo is kept
- Keeps
- The picture itself, its colour profile and which way up it is (JPG, PNG and WebP)
- Checked
- Each cleaned file is scanned again; if any location were left, you'd get an error instead of a download
- Quality
- Unchanged; the image is not re-saved or re-compressed
- Formats
- JPG, PNG and WebP
- Upload
- None; photos are cleaned in your browser
- Price
- Free, no limits, no sign-up
Remove location from photos: questions
What is EXIF data?
EXIF is information a camera or phone stores inside a photo: the date and time, camera model and settings, and often the exact GPS location where the photo was taken. Anyone who gets the original file can read it.
How do I remove the location from a photo?
Remove the EXIF block that holds the GPS coordinates without re-saving the picture. On tuul.io/exif-remover/ you add the photo, the tool lists what it contains, and you download the clean copy; nothing else in the picture changes, and the photo never leaves your device.
Does removing EXIF reduce photo quality?
Not here. Most tools re-save the picture, which compresses it again. This one only cuts out the metadata blocks and copies the image data as it is, so the picture is byte-for-byte the same.
Will my photos turn sideways?
No. Phones often store a photo sideways and use EXIF to say which way is up. This tool keeps that single orientation setting so your photos stay upright, and removes everything else.
What about motion photos and HDR photos?
Phones can store more inside one JPG: a second image (an HDR gain map or a depth map) or a short video. Those carry their own metadata, often with your location. This tool cleans the extra images too and removes the video part, so the still photo is what's left. The row says when that happened.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. Everything happens in your browser. That matters here: uploading a photo to remove its location would give its location to whoever runs the server.
Do social networks remove EXIF data?
Most large networks strip it from public images, but email, messaging apps sending files as documents, cloud links, forums and marketplaces often keep it. Removing it yourself is the only way to be sure.
Next steps
- Compress imagesMake photos smaller in KB or MB, many at once: by quality, or to a size like 100 KB.
- Resize photosChange the size in pixels, many at once: exactly 1080 × 1080, half the size, or the longest side.
- HEIC to JPGTurn iPhone photos (HEIC) into JPG files, many at once.
Guides
- How to remove location from photos before sharingPhone photos store where they were taken. How to remove the GPS location on iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac before you share, and which apps strip it.
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