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Remove Metadata & EXIF

Drop a photo and read what it carries before anyone else does: where it was taken, to the metre; which camera and lens, and their serial numbers; when; the program that wrote it; the small preview that can still show what an edit painted over; and the bytes hidden after the picture ends. Then choose what goes, while the picture itself is copied byte for byte.

What it does

  • Reads JPG, PNG and WebP: the EXIF, XMP, IPTC, Photoshop and colour profile blocks, and a PNG’s text chunks.
  • The data after the image ends, named: a motion photo’s video, a depth map, an HDR gain map.
  • Nine groups to decide about: location, camera and device, dates, author and copyright, editing history, preview, colour profile, hidden extras, the rest.
  • Every field shown with its value and the block it lives in, the prompt a picture generator wrote included.
  • Blocks rewritten rather than dropped whole, so the copyright can stay while the serial number goes.
  • The compressed image data copied byte for byte: the same picture, and a file that never grows.
  • The orientation tag kept by default, so a phone photo stays upright.
  • Many files at once, out as a zip; Content Credentials (C2PA) found and named.

How to use it

  1. Drop the photo, or several.
  2. Read the table: what is in the file and what it says about you.
  3. Untick what should stay, or leave the defaults.
  4. Save, or save them all as a zip.

What it does not do

  • PDF: removing a PDF’s metadata rewrites the whole file and breaks a digital signature, so it deserves warnings and a tool of its own.
  • Word and Office files: names also sit in tracked changes and comments, and cleaning only the properties would give a false all-clear.
  • HEIC and video: both need WebAssembly, which this site does not load.
  • Writing metadata: a different job from removing it.

Questions

Does removing the metadata make a photo anonymous?

No, and no tool can promise it: the way the file is compressed still points at the camera or the program. What goes is what is written down: the position, the serial number, the names and the dates.

Why is the orientation tag kept?

Without it a phone photo comes out on its side in most viewers, and it says which way is up and nothing about you. Untick it if every tag must go.

Does it change the picture?

No. The compressed image data is copied byte for byte, so the pixels of the result are the pixels of the original.

What are the hidden extras?

Bytes after the picture ends: the video of a motion photo, a depth map, an HDR gain map. A redraw on a canvas drops them without saying so; here they are named, and yours to keep or drop.

Everything here runs in your browser. Nothing you type, paste or open is uploaded, and there is no account and no queue. How that works.

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