Strip GPS and EXIF metadata from a photo.
Almost every photo taken on a phone stores your GPS location, camera model, exact timestamp, and often more. Post the photo online and anyone with a browser can read those coordinates. This guide strips all of it.
Why this matters
iPhones and Android phones write your GPS coordinates (latitude, longitude, altitude) into every photo's EXIF metadata by default. Most social platforms strip that metadata before displaying the photo — Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook. Some don't: Discord, Slack, WhatsApp media, direct email, most private messaging platforms, and most personal websites/blogs. If you post to any of those without stripping first, your home address, favorite park, or hospital location leaks.
EXIF also stores camera model (identifies the phone brand + often a specific device serial), exact date-time down to the second, aperture / ISO / shutter, and sometimes even the direction the camera was pointed.
Step-by-step
- Open /exif/. Drop one image or many. JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC — all supported.
- See what's there first. The tool auto-parses and displays every EXIF field:
GPSLatitude,GPSLongitude,DateTimeOriginal,Model,Software, and dozens more. If GPS coordinates are present, you'll see them as a map preview. - Click "Strip all." Or pick specific fields to keep (e.g. keep
Orientation— you don't want the image to appear rotated wrong). - Download. The output is a clean copy; the original is untouched.
Does stripping hurt the photo?
No — the pixels are untouched. EXIF is a container tag; removing it doesn't re-encode anything. File size drops by a few KB, quality is bit-identical to the source.
What about screenshots?
Screenshots typically don't contain GPS but still carry the device model, OS version, and screen size. Same tool, same flow — strip all.
PDF metadata
PDFs have their own metadata tree: /Author, /Creator, /Producer, /CreationDate, /ModDate. These sometimes leak your username or company. /pdf/ has a "Strip metadata" mode that clears them.
What our tool cannot do
EXIF strip removes what's in the file. It does not remove information encoded in the pixels themselves — visible timestamps burned into the corner by some camera apps, GPS coordinates in a caption, license plates or faces in the frame. For pixel-level PII, chain into /sanitize/, which combines EXIF strip with face blur and PII regex in one pass.