EXIF and GPS remover

Image Metadata Remover: Remove EXIF and GPS from Photos

A phone photo carries more than pixels: where it was taken, the device and sometimes its serial number, the time to the second, and the editing apps it passed through. BlankAI shows what each file contains, removes it in your browser, and re-checks the new copy before you share it.

Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Reviewed September 25, 2026

Remove metadata from photos

Add up to 20 photos at once. They are processed on this device and never uploaded.

Drop images here or click to choose

JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC · Up to 20 images · Nothing is uploaded

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What a typical phone photo contains

Layer	Present	Details	BlankAI
GPS coordinates	Yes	Latitude, longitude, altitude and direction. On most phones this is accurate to a few meters.	Removed
Device and lens	Yes	Make, model and lens. Many cameras also record a body serial number.	Removed
Capture time	Yes	Original date and time, often with the time-zone offset.	Removed
Maker notes	Sometimes	Vendor-specific data. On some cameras it includes shutter counts and internal identifiers.	Removed
XMP and IPTC	Sometimes	Editing history, captions, keywords, author and copyright added by editing apps.	Removed
HDR gain map and depth data	Sometimes	Extra images stored inside iPhone and Pixel photos. The clean copy does not include them, so the HDR brightness boost is lost.	Removed

Why remove photo metadata before sharing

GPS coordinates in a photo taken at home point to your home. A serial number links separate photos to the same camera. Capture times reveal routines. None of this is visible when you look at the picture, which is why it gets shared by accident.

Large social networks hide EXIF from other users, but they still receive the original file. Email attachments, cloud share links, forums, marketplaces and messaging apps that send “as a file” usually pass the metadata along untouched.

iPhone photos and HEIC

iPhones save photos as HEIC by default. BlankAI decodes HEIC in the browser and writes the clean copy as JPEG. When you pick photos from the iOS photo library in Safari, iOS may already convert them and remove location, depending on the Options setting in the share sheet. Picking the file from the Files app keeps the original, so you can see exactly what it contains.

What changes in the image

The clean copy is re-encoded from the pixels. PNG output is lossless. JPEG and WebP use quality 92 by default, and you can choose 100. Rotation from the EXIF orientation tag is applied to the pixels, so the photo still displays the right way up. Colors are converted to sRGB, which can make very saturated wide-gamut photos slightly less vivid.

How to remove metadata from a photo

1Drop up to 20 photos into the tool above, or tap to choose them.
2For a single photo, review the metadata BlankAI found, including any GPS location.
3Select Remove Metadata, then save the clean copies one by one or as a ZIP.
4Check the report: it lists what was removed and confirms the new files contain no metadata.

What BlankAI removes, and what it does not

The same rules apply to every file, whatever made it. BlankAI cleans the metadata that travels with a file. It cannot reach anything that is part of the image itself.

Layer	Where it lives	What it holds	BlankAI
EXIF and GPS	File metadata	Camera or phone model, serial numbers, capture time and location coordinates.	Removed
XMP and IPTC	File metadata	Creator tool, edit history, captions, credits and the IPTC Digital Source Type AI label.	Removed
C2PA Content Credentials	Signed manifest inside the file	Who or what created the file and how it was edited, signed by the issuing app.	Removed
PNG text chunks	File metadata	Stable Diffusion prompts, seeds and model names, ComfyUI workflows.	Removed
Invisible watermarks	The pixels	SynthID (Google and OpenAI images), Meta's Content Seal, TikTok and ByteDance watermarks.	Not removed
Visible watermarks	The pixels	Logos, sparkle icons and corner badges drawn onto the image.	Not removed
AI classifiers	The platform	Models that judge an image by how it looks. File metadata plays no part.	Not affected

Questions

Do Instagram and Facebook remove GPS data?

Independent tests show public downloads from Instagram and Facebook carry no EXIF or GPS. Meta still receives the original file when you upload it, so cleaning first keeps the location off its servers too.

Does removing metadata reduce quality?

PNG stays lossless. JPEG and WebP are re-encoded at quality 92 by default, which is visually very close to the original, or at 100 if you choose Maximum.

Can I remove GPS but keep the date?

The remover clears everything. To change individual fields, open the photo in the EXIF Viewer, which can edit common fields such as date and location and save a new JPEG copy.

Is anything uploaded?

No. The files are read and processed in your browser. BlankAI records anonymous page events, such as how many images were processed, but never the images or their metadata.