What metadata does this tool remove?

All of it. Because each photo is re-encoded from its raw pixels through an HTML canvas, the output keeps only the bitmap. EXIF (camera model, exposure, date taken), GPS location, XMP, IPTC captions, the embedded camera thumbnail and the original ICC colour profile are every one dropped.

Does removing EXIF rotate my photo incorrectly?

No. Many phone photos rely on an EXIF orientation tag to display upright. The tool reads that tag and bakes the rotation into the pixels before stripping metadata, so the cleaned photo stays the right way up even though the tag is gone.

Are my photos uploaded anywhere?

Never. Everything runs locally in your browser using the File and Canvas APIs. No image, and no metadata read from it, is ever sent to a server. You can disconnect from the internet and the tool still works.

Why would I want to remove EXIF and GPS data?

Photos from phones and cameras often embed your exact GPS coordinates, the device serial, and the timestamp. Before posting online, sending a CV photo, or selling an item, stripping that data protects your location and privacy. It also shrinks the file slightly.

Can it handle HEIC, AVIF or TIFF files?

It tries to. If your browser can decode the format (modern Safari and Chrome decode HEIC and AVIF), the image is processed and exported as JPEG, PNG or WebP with no metadata. If a browser cannot decode a particular file, that one item is marked with an error and the rest still process.

Will the cleaned image look different?

For PNG (lossless) the pixels are identical. For JPEG and WebP a small amount of re-compression happens, controlled by the quality slider — at 90 percent and above the difference is visually imperceptible while the file stays compact.

How many photos can I process at once?

There is no fixed limit; the tool processes them one after another and shows a progress bar. Very large batches of high-resolution images use more memory, so for hundreds of photos work in groups of a few dozen for the smoothest experience.

EXIF Remover (Batch)

The batch EXIF remover strips every piece of hidden metadata from your photos — EXIF camera data, GPS location, XMP, IPTC captions, the embedded thumbnail and the original colour profile — and lets you download the cleaned images as a single ZIP. It is built for anyone who shares photos online and does not want their exact location, device details or timestamps travelling with the picture: marketplace sellers, job applicants attaching a headshot, journalists protecting a source, or anyone posting to a forum. Drop in one image or a hundred, press one button, and download files that contain nothing but the picture itself. Everything happens inside your browser — no upload, no account, no server ever sees your photos.

How it works

Most “EXIF removers” try to surgically delete individual metadata blocks, which is fragile and format-specific. This tool takes a more thorough approach: it decodes each image to its raw pixels and re-encodes it through an HTML5 canvas. A canvas export contains only the bitmap, so there is simply nowhere for EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC or the camera thumbnail to live — they are gone by construction. Before re-encoding, the tool reads the EXIF orientation tag and bakes that rotation into the pixels, so a phone photo that relied on the tag to appear upright stays upright after the tag is discarded.

Each file is also scanned at the byte level so the tool can show you an honest badge — whether it actually found an EXIF, XMP or IPTC marker before stripping. You choose whether to keep each photo in its original format or convert the whole batch to JPEG, PNG or WebP, and a quality slider controls compression for the lossy formats. Cleaned files can be downloaded individually or bundled into one ZIP with jszip. Because images are already compressed, the ZIP stores them without re-compressing, so the download is fast.

Example

You list a bike for sale and snap four photos on your phone. Each JPEG quietly carries the GPS coordinates of your home, the phone model, and the exact time the shot was taken. You drag all four onto the drop zone; the tool flags each one with ”⚠ metadata found”. You leave the format on Keep source format, press Strip metadata, and within a second each card shows ”✓ metadata stripped” with the new file size. You click Download ZIP, and the resulting clean-images-2026-05-30.zip contains four JPEGs that look identical to the originals but reveal nothing about where or when they were taken.

What it removes	Example value in a phone photo
GPS location	51.5074 N, 0.1278 W
Device	Apple iPhone 15 Pro
Date taken	2026-05-30 14:22:09
Camera thumbnail	embedded 160×120 preview
Colour profile	Display P3

Every figure above is read and then discarded on your device — no numbers, and no photos, are ever uploaded or stored.