Remove Image Metadata Online

A new picture, not a tag editor

Remove Metadata does not open the EXIF directory and delete GPS, artist, or copyright fields one by one. It decodes the image and writes a new file from the pixels. The old container is discarded, so the tags that lived in that container are gone with it. That includes GPS coordinates, camera model, lens, timestamps, orientation, and whatever else the original format stored beside the bitmap. It also means you cannot keep a caption and drop only the location. There is no tag checklist.

PNG output is lossless. JPEG output uses quality 0.95 and fills the canvas with white first, so a transparent source becomes a white background. The download is name-clean.png or name-clean.jpg. The word “clean” means the container is new. It does not mean the pixels were sharpened, and it does not mean a watermark in the picture was removed. A street sign that shows a face is still in the pixels. Metadata removal does not anonymize the scene.

What still leaves the building inside the pixels

People confuse the file info panel with the photograph. Stripping EXIF stops a careless upload from attaching a home address that the camera stored. It does not stop a recipient from reading a house number painted on the door, a school name on a jersey, or a computer screen in the background. Crop those out on Crop Image before you publish. If you only run metadata removal, you have cleaned the header and published the scene.

Thumbnails and previews that some cameras store as a second image inside the file are part of the old container. They go away because the container goes away. A gallery that generated its own preview from the new PNG will build that preview from the same pixels you see here.

JPEG at 0.95 is still lossy. For a PNG or a screenshot you want unchanged, stay on PNG. For a camera JPEG you are about to email, the 0.95 rebuild is a reasonable privacy copy, and it can be slightly larger or smaller than the original. This page is not the compressor. Quality is fixed. If you need a smaller file after the tags are gone, take the clean PNG to Compress Image.

When the rebuild is the right job

• A listing photo from a phone, before it goes on a public page. You want the picture of the bike, not the GPS point of the garage.
• A screenshot you will paste into a bug report. Screenshots rarely have GPS, but they sometimes carry a name in the file metadata. The clean PNG is a plain bitmap.
• A scan of a paper form that picked up scanner tags. The pixels of the form remain. Black out the account number in another editor if the number is printed on the page. This tool will not.
• A logo PNG you will hand to a printer. Use PNG output so the rebuild does not flatten or recompress it as JPEG.

Steps

1. Drop the image. Confirm the preview is the picture you mean to publish, including anything readable inside the frame.
2. Choose PNG unless you specifically need a JPEG. PNG avoids the white flatten and the 0.95 recompression.
3. Download the -clean file.
4. If you still have the original, do not upload that one by habit. The original still has the tags.

Frequently asked questions