🧹EXIF / Metadata Remover

Every photo from a phone or camera carries a hidden second file: the make and model, lens, exposure, the date and time it was taken, often the exact GPS coordinates of your home or warehouse, and sometimes a thumbnail of the original frame before you cropped it. The EXIF / Metadata Remover is a strip metadata from photos tool that removes all of that before an image goes public, in bulk, and shows you what it found so you know what you were about to publish. If you need to remove GPS from photos before posting, this is the one-click exif remover to do it.

How it works

1. Drop the photos, up to 200 at a time.
2. The tool reads each file's headers and lists what is present: EXIF (camera and exposure), GPS (location), ICC (colour profile), XMP (editing history and keywords) and embedded thumbnails, with the total metadata size in KB.
3. Choose the output format: same as input, or force JPG, PNG or WebP.
4. Click Remove metadata. Each image is decoded and re-encoded through the Canvas API, which produces a file containing pixels only.
5. Download the clean set as a ZIP.

Re-encoding is the only way to be certain, since metadata can hide in several container segments. For JPG you choose the quality, so a 92 setting keeps the visible result indistinguishable from the original; PNG output is lossless.

Why it matters

The privacy risk is concrete. GPS tags resolve to within a few metres, so a photo taken at home tells anyone where you live; a sequence of photos tells them your routine. The date tag reveals when stock was actually shot, and XMP can leak the file path and software you used. Marketplaces do not strip this for you consistently, and images you email to buyers or post in groups carry everything. To remove exif data is to close that door.

There is a business benefit too:

• Metadata plus a thumbnail can add 20 to 60 KB to a file, which matters against the Daraz 3 MB and TikTok Shop 5 MB limits and on page speed.
• eBay lists photos exactly as uploaded; stripping the orientation tag after rotating avoids a picture that flips back in some viewers.
• Amazon expects sRGB. The tool applies the ICC profile before removing it, so colours stay correct while the profile bytes go.

Tips

• Run this last, after cropping and resizing, because some editors write fresh metadata on export.
• Keep the originals with their metadata in a private folder; the date and camera info are useful for your own records and copyright.
• Combine with the Bulk Image Compressor if you also need to hit a size target; both tools re-encode, so do them in one step where possible.
• Use the Image Format Converter when a supplier sends HEIC; converting also strips metadata.
• Metadata is only half of privacy: blur people with the Face Blur (Auto) tool and hide labels, addresses or prices with the Blur / Pixelate Region tool.

Privacy

The point of the tool is privacy, so it would be odd to upload your photos to remove data from them. Your images never leave your browser; reading and re-encoding happen on your device, and nothing is logged.