EXIF Viewer & Remover — Free Photo Metadata Editor

1 Choose photos

Drop photos here or click to browse — JPEG, PNG, WebP and AVIF

2 Remove everything

One button, every photo on the list. For JPEG, PNG and WebP, the picture is not decoded, re-drawn or re-compressed — the compressed image data is copied across untouched and only the metadata around it is dropped, so the result is the same photo with nothing attached.

The orientation tag Phones store a photo the way the sensor saw it and add one tag saying which way up it goes. Remove that and some viewers show it sideways. Kept, a new EXIF block is written holding this tag and nothing else — and only when the photo was not already the right way up.

The colour profile The ICC profile says what the numbers in the picture mean as colours. It says nothing about you. Dropping it can visibly shift the colours of a wide-gamut photo, which is why it is kept unless you say otherwise.

AVIF is decoded by your browser and saved as a new PNG without copying the original metadata. Its EXIF tags can be viewed here but cannot be edited. The PNG may be larger, and conversion can change colour or HDR rendering. Your original file stays unchanged.

Preservation choices for the next clean The orientation tag The colour profile

3 Look inside, and change what you like

Choose a photo above and its readable metadata appears here: what it says about where you were, when, and on what. Nothing is sent anywhere to work that out.

Requested preservation for this copy: orientation {orientation}; ICC profile {icc}. on off These preservation choices did not apply: AVIF was decoded upright and saved as PNG without copying original metadata. Inspect cleaned copy Inspect cleaned copy: {name} Reading this copy’s metadata… This copy could not be inspected: {reason} Read-only metadata from this cleaned copy. EXIF tags ICC profile Absent No removable metadata was found in this copy. {label}: {detail} {kind} · {size} · clean converts to PNG EXIF preview only; other metadata is not inventoried PNG conversion AVIF tags are read-only. Cleaning writes a new PNG and copies no original metadata. Only extracted EXIF is shown. AVIF block-by-block editing is unavailable; cleaning removes original metadata by PNG conversion. AVIF EXIF preview No readable EXIF findings were extracted. Other AVIF metadata has not been inventoried. This browser could not decode this AVIF image. Try a browser with native AVIF support. The browser could not write the cleaned PNG. The decoded AVIF exceeds the 80-megapixel processing limit. AVIF converted to PNG; no original metadata copied AVIF: {before} → PNG: {after}. No original metadata copied. AVIF is decoded upright and converted to PNG; these keep options apply only to JPEG, PNG and WebP. {kind} · {size} · about {metadata} of metadata Take {name} off the list about {size} of it metadata no metadata found Cannot read Nothing found EXIF {count} EXIF unreadable EXIF empty Thumbnail Comment Text {count} Unknown blocks Both preservation exceptions are off. Removable metadata, including orientation and the ICC profile, is removed; JPEG display headers are kept. Everything else goes: EXIF, GPS, the maker note, XMP, IPTC, comments, the embedded thumbnail, and any block this tool could not identify. Kept: the orientation tag. Everything else goes: EXIF, GPS, the maker note, XMP, IPTC, comments, the embedded thumbnail, and any block this tool could not identify. Kept: the colour profile. Everything else goes: EXIF, GPS, the maker note, XMP, IPTC, comments, the embedded thumbnail, and any block this tool could not identify. Kept: the orientation tag and the colour profile. This file has no metadata blocks in it at all. Remove Kept Cannot be kept An EXIF block that would not parse {size}, and this tool could not read it: {reason} Saving rewrites the EXIF block from what is listed below, so an unreadable one cannot be carried across — it goes whichever button you press. EXIF tags One tag, in the camera, image and location directories. {count} tags across the camera, image and location directories. Remove every tag GPS location Remove the location Embedded thumbnail A small second copy of the picture, which may predate any cropping. Remove the thumbnail XMP packet {size} of XML: usually the camera again, plus the edit history. IPTC block {size} of caption, byline and credit fields. Text chunks One key/value pair: {keywords}. {count} key/value pairs: {keywords}. Comments One comment stored beside the picture. {count} comments stored beside the picture. Blocks this tool cannot read {blocks}. Removable without being readable. Colour profile {size}. Says nothing about you; removing it can shift the colours. {size} named “{name}”. Says nothing about you; removing it can shift the colours. Change a value and it is written back when you save. Tags with no editor can still be removed — deleting a value never needs to understand it. There are no EXIF tags in this photo. PNG stores these instead of EXIF tags. Editing any of them rewrites the set. This file has a compressed text chunk that would not unpack. Editing the set would drop it, so the set is read-only here — it can still be removed as a block. 1 pair {count} pairs compressed, and it would not unpack Value for {keyword} Remove the {keyword} text chunk {tag} cannot be left blank. Use the Remove button beside it if you want the tag gone altogether. “{value}” is not a value this tag can hold. {tag} expects text. “{value}” is not a value this tag can hold. {tag} expects a number. “{value}” is not a value that tag can hold. Normal Mirrored horizontally Rotated 180° Mirrored vertically Mirrored, rotated 270° Rotated 90° clockwise Mirrored, rotated 90° Rotated 270° clockwise None Inches Centimetres Not defined Manual Program Aperture priority Shutter priority Creative (slow speed) Action (fast speed) Portrait Landscape Unknown Average Centre-weighted average Spot Multi-spot Pattern Partial Other Daylight Fluorescent Tungsten Flash Fine weather Cloudy Shade Standard light A Standard light B Standard light C Wide gamut sRGB Uncalibrated Auto Auto bracket Standard Night scene Soft Hard Low High One-chip colour area Two-chip colour area Three-chip colour area Colour sequential area Trilinear Colour sequential linear Custom Low gain up High gain up Low gain down High gain down Macro Close Distant Centred Co-sited Uncompressed Above sea level Below sea level No correction Differential correction applied No flash on this camera Fired Did not fire auto forced on forced off red-eye reduction {left}, {right} names the device the photo came from names the app, phone or edit history behind the file a timestamp of when the file was last written usually a real name a block of XML that often repeats the camera and edit history the caption and byline fields a photo desk fills in the moment the shutter fired, to the second when the file was created, to the second narrows down where in the world you were the manufacturer's private block - serial numbers and lens data live here names another file that was on the device a per-photo identifier that links copies of the same file together a name typed into the camera ties every photo you take to one physical body ties every photo you take to one physical lens Image The camera, the software, and when the file was written. Camera settings How the shot was taken, and when the shutter fired. Location Where the photo was taken, usually to within a few metres. Interoperability Two housekeeping tags. Nothing personal. Thumbnail A second, smaller copy of the picture, with tags of its own. {metres} m above sea level {metres} m below sea level Location tags without a full position. {count} photo {count} photos Removed {count} tag {count} tags Tag Value Keyword Keyword for {keyword} Remove {tag} identifying revealing Download Saved as {name} - {size}. (empty) {bytes} bytes of data {shown}, and {more} more Unrecognised value ({value}) A sentence describing the picture Who took it e.g. (c) 2026 Your Name What produced the file 2026:08:19 14:30:00 e.g. Canon e.g. EOS R6 1 is the right way up; 6 is rotated 90 degrees Free text e.g. 400 Nothing to remove — this file had no metadata in it. Nothing needed removing. 1 photo cleaned. Nothing left this machine. {count} photos cleaned. Nothing left this machine. {before} to {after} — {saved} of metadata gone. The picture itself is unchanged. Back to the file as it was read. Nothing in this file gives anything away Everything that did has been removed. Save the photo to write it out. No location, no timestamps, no camera, no names. Either it never had any, or something has already stripped it. An EXIF block with nothing in it {size} of EXIF that parses cleanly and holds no tags. Harmless, and removed along with everything else. An EXIF block nobody can read There is EXIF here and it would not parse: {reason} Everything below is what could be read of the rest of the file, so treat this one as an unknown quantity — which is a reason to remove it, not to leave it. Where the photo was taken {position}. That is precise enough to name a building, and it travels with the file into anything you post it to. {position}, {altitude}. That is precise enough to name a building, and it travels with the file into anything you post it to. Location tags, without a full position One GPS tag is here but no usable latitude and longitude. Direction of travel, altitude and the GPS clock can still be among them. {count} GPS tags are here but no usable latitude and longitude. Direction of travel, altitude and the GPS clock can still be among them. When it was taken {when}, to the second. Combined with a location this places a person somewhere at a particular moment. The device it came from {device}. Harmless on its own; it becomes an identifier when every photo you post carries the same one. Something that names you or your kit {found}. A serial number ties every photo from that body together, whoever posted them and wherever. Camera serial number Lens serial number Camera owner Image unique ID Artist Author Copyright What edited it {software}. This is often the phone’s firmware version, which is a narrower thing to publish than the model alone. The maker note {size} of the manufacturer’s own private data. It is undocumented, it varies by model, and it is where serial numbers, focus points and shutter counts tend to hide. A second copy of the picture {size} holding a small JPEG preview. If the photo was cropped after the camera wrote it, some editors leave the thumbnail showing the uncropped frame. An XMP packet {size} of XML. It usually repeats the camera and the timestamps, and adds the edit history: which program, which version, and every time the file was saved. An IPTC block {size} of the fields a photo desk fills in — byline, caption, city, credit. If this came from a stock library or a newsroom, someone’s name is likely in it. A comment “{comment}” Text: {keyword} Blocks this tool cannot read {blocks}. Unreadable is not the same as empty, so these are removed along with everything else. This does not start like a JPEG. Lost the segment structure — the file looks damaged. A segment claims a length that runs off the end of the file. The file ended before the image data started. This does not start like a PNG. A chunk claims a length that runs off the end of the file. The header chunk is missing. This does not start like a WebP. A chunk claims a size that runs off the end of the file. The file has no chunks in it. The block is too short to be EXIF. No byte-order mark — this is not a TIFF block. The TIFF magic number is wrong. The first directory offset points outside the block. HEIC is a box format built out of nested atoms, and rewriting one safely needs a different parser from the three here. Convert it to JPEG first — the HEIC to JPG tool on this site does that, and can leave the metadata out on the way. GIF has comment and application blocks rather than EXIF, and almost never carries anything personal. It is not handled here. A bare TIFF is all metadata and all image at once, with the pixels addressed by the same offsets this tool would have to move. Editing one is a different job from editing a photo. This does not look like a JPEG, PNG, WebP or AVIF. This format cannot be written. JFIF header The five-byte block that says a JPEG is a JPEG, plus the print resolution. Kept: it says nothing about you, and some older software will not open a file without it. Adobe colour marker Records which colour transform the encoder used. Kept, because removing it turns some files inside out colour-wise. That metadata block is {size} bytes and a JPEG segment holds {limit}. Remove the thumbnail or the maker note and try again. This WebP has no extended header, and its size could not be read, so metadata cannot be added to it. your photos have gone nowhere. {total} files loaded, all of them this page's own. {platform} something contacted {hosts}, which this tool never does. Treat that as worth investigating. {platform} The page's own ad, measurement and donate-button scripts loaded from {hosts} host; not one of them was given a file or a tag. The page's own ad, measurement and donate-button scripts loaded from {hosts} hosts; not one of them was given a file or a tag.

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# EXIF Viewer & Remover — remove photo metadata

See what a photo says about you. Then take it out.

> See the EXIF and GPS data hidden in a photo, edit it, or strip the lot in one click. JPEG, PNG and WebP stay unencoded; AVIF cleaning converts to a new PNG. Nothing uploaded.

This is an interactive browser tool at https://abox.tools/exif-editor/. Files are processed on the device running that browser. Any deliberate sharing or optional network feature is described on the page. What follows is its written explanation; open the address to use it.

## Your photos are **processed in your browser**. No processing upload.

The file is opened, parsed and rewritten by your own browser. This tool has no network feature of any kind — nothing to fetch, nothing to send — and there is no server on the other end of this page to send a photo to even if there were.

- ✗ No upload
- ✗ No account
- ✓ Works offline
- ✓ Open source
- ✓ AVIF cleans to PNG; JPEG, PNG and WebP keep their encoding

## How to remove EXIF data from a photo

1. **Choose your photos.** Drop them onto the picker or select them by hand. They are read straight off your disk by the browser; nothing is sent anywhere while you do it.
2. **Read what is in them, if you want to.** The findings list names the things worth knowing about — the GPS position, the timestamps, the serial numbers — before the full table of every tag.
3. **Press "Remove all metadata".** For JPEG, PNG and WebP, every tag, the XMP and IPTC blocks, the comments and the embedded thumbnail all go across the batch. AVIF is decoded to a new PNG that copies no original metadata; inspect the result because colour and HDR can change.
4. **Or edit instead of removing.** For JPEG, PNG and WebP, change a date, correct a copyright line, drop the location and keep the camera settings — then save that photo on its own.

## The longer version

[What a photo says about you, and how to take it out](https://abox.tools/guides/remove-exif-and-gps-data/): A photo off a phone usually carries the exact spot it was taken, the time to the second, and the camera's serial number. What is in there, who can read it, and how to take it out without touching the picture.

## Also in the box

- [DICOM Viewer](https://abox.tools/dicom-viewer/): CT, MR, X-ray and ultrasound, with the window, the header and the measurements.
- [Image to ICO](https://abox.tools/image-to-ico/): One picture in. Every size a browser, Windows or a Mac asks for, out.
- [Image to Data URI](https://abox.tools/image-to-data-uri/): The whole picture as one line of text. Paste it straight into CSS or HTML.
- [SVG to Image](https://abox.tools/svg-to-image/): Name the size. A vector has none of its own to lose.

## Questions

### Is my photo uploaded anywhere?

No. The file is read, parsed and rewritten by your own browser on your own hardware. This tool has no network feature of any kind — it never fetches anything and never sends anything — and the page's `Content-Security-Policy` names every address it may contact, none of which belongs to this site.

### What is EXIF, and what else is hiding in a photo?

EXIF is a block of tags a camera writes beside the picture: the make and model, the exposure settings, the date and time to the second, often a GPS position, and sometimes a serial number. Photos frequently carry more besides — an XMP packet of XML from an editor, an IPTC block of caption and byline fields, a colour profile, a small second copy of the image as a thumbnail, and a maker note of undocumented manufacturer data. JPEG, PNG and WebP inventories list these blocks. AVIF shows available extracted EXIF only; other AVIF metadata is not inventoried.

### Does removing metadata reduce the image quality?

JPEG, PNG and WebP cleaning edits their containers and copies their compressed picture data byte for byte, without decoding or recompressing it. AVIF cleaning instead decodes the first image and writes a new lossless PNG without copying original metadata. That PNG may be larger, and the browser's decoding can change HDR or colour representation. The original file stays unchanged.

### Which file formats does it handle?

JPEG, PNG and WebP support metadata viewing, editing and container cleaning. AVIF supports a preview of available extracted EXIF and cleaning to a new PNG; AVIF tags are read-only and other metadata is not inventoried. Animated AVIF uses the first image. HEIC and bare TIFF are recognised but not rewritten. Convert HEIC first when needed.

### Will my photo appear rotated after the metadata is removed?

For JPEG, PNG and WebP, keeping the orientation tag writes a small EXIF block containing only that tag when needed. Turn the option off to drop it. AVIF cleaning uses the browser's upright decoded image and creates a PNG; the orientation and colour-profile checkboxes apply only to JPEG, PNG and WebP.

### Does it remove the GPS location?

Cleaning removes the original location metadata. For JPEG, PNG and WebP, you can also delete location tags individually and keep the rest. AVIF cleaning creates a PNG without copying original metadata. The position is shown in decimal degrees first, because "51 degrees, 30 minutes, 26 seconds" does not make it obvious that a photo names the building it was taken in.

### Can I change a tag instead of deleting it?

JPEG, PNG and WebP support tag editing and additions. A rewritten maker note may contain invalid manufacturer-specific offsets, so keep the original when that matters. AVIF's extracted EXIF is read-only; its cleaning action creates a PNG without original metadata rather than rewriting the AVIF container.

### Is it free, and do I need an account?

It is free, and there is no account, no sign-in and no trial. The site carries advertising, which is what pays for it; the ads are not given anything about your photos.

### Does it work offline?

Yes. Load the page once, then disconnect from the internet and it keeps working. That is also the simplest way to prove nothing is being uploaded: a tool that sent your photos away to be processed would stop the moment you unplugged.

## How the privacy claim is verifiable

- **Processing happens in this browser.** This tool processes input and results inside your browser. Its processing code does not upload them for processing. Content-Security-Policy restricts permitted resources and connection destinations, but allowed hosts can still receive requests: the policy does not inspect payloads and alone cannot prove that nothing is sent. Compare the source with the requests for the operation you use, or complete that local operation while disconnected.
- **Nothing here fetches anything.** Unlike the other tools in this box, this one has no "load from a web address" feature and no optional network step at all. There is no `fetch`, no `XMLHttpRequest` and no `sendBeacon` anywhere in `src/`.
- **The metadata we read is never read out.** Your GPS position is displayed on this page and goes nowhere else. There is no custom analytics event in this repository that carries a tag, a filename, a size or a count. Optional feedback reports only the tool slug, a fixed vote and a fixed reason, never the metadata read from your file.
- **What Google loads, and what it is not given.** The ad and measurement scripts come from Google. Neither is handed anything about your photos. Every line that reads, parses or rewrites a file is served from this origin and listed in the repository.
- **What the donate button loads, and what it is not given.** The "Buy me a coffee" button in the header is drawn by a script from cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com and letters itself from Google Fonts. It is a link and nothing more: it reports no visit, and it is handed nothing about you or your files. Nothing happens unless you click it, and what you would be clicking through to is somebody else's site.
- **It works offline.** Disconnect from the network and the tool is unchanged, because there was never a network step in it. That is the simplest proof of all.

**Check it yourself.** None of the above has to be taken on trust. This page is generated from the templates and config in the repository by a build script you can read and run yourself, and the result is committed to the `dist` branch — so you can diff what is served against what a build of the sources produces: https://github.com/A-Box-of-Tools/website

The files worth reading first are `config/site.toml` for the Content-Security-Policy, `src/tiff.js` for the EXIF parser, and `src/jpeg.js` for the proof that the picture itself is only ever copied.

How to remove EXIF data from a photo

Choose your photos. Drop them onto the picker or select them by hand. They are read straight off your disk by the browser; nothing is sent anywhere while you do it.
Read what is in them, if you want to. The findings list names the things worth knowing about — the GPS position, the timestamps, the serial numbers — before the full table of every tag.
Press "Remove all metadata". For JPEG, PNG and WebP, every tag, the XMP and IPTC blocks, the comments and the embedded thumbnail all go across the batch. AVIF is decoded to a new PNG that copies no original metadata; inspect the result because colour and HDR can change.
Or edit instead of removing. For JPEG, PNG and WebP, change a date, correct a copyright line, drop the location and keep the camera settings — then save that photo on its own.

The longer version

What a photo says about you, and how to take it out A photo off a phone usually carries the exact spot it was taken, the time to the second, and the camera's serial number. What is in there, who can read it, and how to take it out without touching the picture.

Questions

Is my photo uploaded anywhere?

No. The file is read, parsed and rewritten by your own browser on your own hardware. This tool has no network feature of any kind — it never fetches anything and never sends anything — and the page's Content-Security-Policy names every address it may contact, none of which belongs to this site.

What is EXIF, and what else is hiding in a photo?

Does removing metadata reduce the image quality?

Which file formats does it handle?

Will my photo appear rotated after the metadata is removed?

Does it remove the GPS location?

Can I change a tag instead of deleting it?

Is it free, and do I need an account?

It is free, and there is no account, no sign-in and no trial. The site carries advertising, which is what pays for it; the ads are not given anything about your photos.

Does it work offline?

EXIF Viewer & Remover — remove photo metadata

How the privacy claim is verifiable

1 Choose photos

2 Remove everything

Cleaned

3 Look inside, and change what you like

What this file gives away

Blocks in this file

Every tag

How to remove EXIF data from a photo

The longer version

Questions