How to remove EXIF data from a photo
- Choose your photos. Click the box above and pick one photo or many. Each one shows what it gives away: the place it was taken, the camera or phone, the date and the editing software.
- Click Remove metadata. The metadata is cut out of each file in this tab. The picture itself is copied unchanged, so there’s no loss of quality.
- Download the clean copies. Each photo gets its own Download link, with the size before and after. With two or more, Download all as ZIP saves them in one file.
Good to know
- No quality loss. Nothing is re-compressed: the photo’s image data is copied byte for byte and only the metadata blocks are left out. The file usually gets a few KB smaller.
- What is removed. JPG: EXIF (location, camera, dates, thumbnail), XMP, IPTC, comments and other app data. PNG: eXIf, text and time chunks. WebP: EXIF and XMP chunks.
- What is kept. The colour profile, so colours look the same, and for photos stored sideways, the orientation tag, so they still show the right way up. Neither says where, when or with what the photo was taken.
- Extra images after a JPG are dropped. Some phones attach a depth map or HDR map after the photo. The clean copy is a standard photo without them.
- HEIC isn’t supported. For iPhone HEIC photos, use HEIC to JPG: its JPGs don’t carry the location or camera details over.
- On an iPhone, there’s also a switch. In the share sheet, tap Options at the top and turn Location off before you send a photo.
Your photos stay on your device
Uploading a photo to a website to remove its location would hand that location to the website. Here, every photo is read and cleaned inside this browser tab, by a few kilobytes of code that only cuts blocks out of the file.
The page’s security policy tells your browser to block uploads, so your photos can’t leave your device even by accident. You can check: open your browser’s developer tools, watch the Network tab, and clean a photo. How InTheTab works
You’ll also see a few small requests to Google Analytics. That’s our visit counter, and it never receives your files. Privacy policy
Questions
How do I remove the location from a photo?
Open inthetab.com/remove-exif/, pick the photo and click Remove metadata, then download the clean copy. The GPS coordinates are cut out of the file together with the camera model, date and software, and the photo is never uploaded. On an iPhone you can also tap Options in the share sheet and turn Location off before sending.
Does removing EXIF data reduce photo quality?
Not here. The metadata blocks are cut out of the file and the compressed picture is copied byte for byte, so the photo is not re-compressed and looks exactly the same. Tools that redraw the photo on a canvas and save it again do lose a little quality.
Do WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook remove the location from photos?
Photos posted to Instagram and Facebook, or sent as a normal photo in WhatsApp, are re-compressed and generally lose their EXIF data on the way. Photos sent as a file or document, by email, by AirDrop or through a cloud storage link usually keep it, location included. Removing the metadata first means you don’t have to rely on the app.
Why is the orientation kept?
Phones often save a photo sideways and store “rotate 90°” in its EXIF data. If that tag were removed, the clean copy would show sideways. So for rotated photos one tag is kept: the orientation. It says nothing about where, when or with what the photo was taken.
Can I remove metadata from iPhone HEIC photos?
Not on this page: it handles JPG, PNG and WebP. Convert HEIC photos with HEIC to JPG instead. The JPGs it makes are drawn fresh from the pixels, so the location and camera details are not copied across.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The photos are read and cleaned by your own browser and are never uploaded. We never get your files or text: the site has no accounts, and its only analytics, Google Analytics, counts visits without ever seeing what you add here.