EXIF Viewer & Remover

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is information a camera or phone saves inside each photo: how, when and often where it was taken. Two other kinds of metadata often come with it: XMP, added by editing apps such as Lightroom, and IPTC, used for captions, keywords and copyright.

None of it shows when you look at the photo, but anyone who has the file can read it, here or in their computer’s file properties.

In the results, All metadata tags lists every tag and its value, and Copy JSON copies the lot as text.

It works on one photo at a time. Press Clear to start on the next.

Removing metadata shouldn’t change how the photo looks, so two things stay:

• Orientation. Phones often store photos sideways, with a tag saying which way is up. If a JPEG or PNG needs that tag, a new one holding only the orientation is written back, so the photo still appears upright.
• Colour profile. An embedded ICC profile tells apps how to show the colours accurately; without it, some photos look dull or oversaturated. It describes colours, not you.

Everything else goes, including the thumbnail and any data hidden after the end of the image. The results list exactly what was removed and kept.

Clean photos before you post them publicly, sell something online or send them to people you don’t know, especially photos taken at home. Some websites remove metadata when you upload, but not all do, and photos sent as email attachments or cloud storage links arrive exactly as they left.

• iPhone: to stop new photos recording where they were taken, go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera and choose Never. When sharing from Photos, tap Options at the top of the share sheet and turn off Location.
• Your own website: photos don’t need camera details there either. Clean them, then compress and resize them for the web.

Your photo is read and cleaned by your browser, on your own phone or computer, and never uploaded, so it’s safe to check the photos you’d least want to share. The coordinates only leave your device if you press View on map, which puts them in the OpenStreetMap address.

If your browser can’t open HEIC files itself, a HEIC decoder (about 730 KB) is downloaded from this site the first time you clean one: code coming to you, not your photo going out. You can check in your browser’s developer tools: the Network tab shows this site’s own files and a few anonymous counts, described in our privacy policy.