📷 EXIF Viewer & Remover ☆

Overview

EXIF Viewer & Remover shows the metadata hidden inside your photos and lets you remove it. Drop a JPEG and instantly see the camera make and model, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, orientation, software, artist and copyright fields, plus a full table of every EXIF tag, including GPS coordinates with a map link when location was embedded. Press download to get a cleaned copy with all EXIF stripped: the pixel data is copied byte-for-byte, so there is no recompression and no quality loss. Everything happens locally in your browser with the open-source piexifjs engine. Your photos are never uploaded, which matters most for exactly the private photos you want to clean.

What EXIF metadata contains

Cameras and phones write a structured block of tags into every photo: make and model, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, orientation, software version, artist and copyright. Many also store GPS coordinates with altitude and a timestamp, which is why a photo taken at home can reveal the address when shared online. Social networks often strip some of this on upload, but email, messaging apps, cloud drives and forum attachments frequently keep it intact.

Capabilities and constraints

Property	EXIF viewer/remover behavior
Input	JPEG photos (EXIF is a JPEG/TIFF feature)
Shows	Camera, lens, exposure, ISO, software, author, copyright, GPS, full tag table
Removal	Strips the EXIF block from a downloaded copy
Quality	Pixel data copied byte-for-byte: no recompression, no loss
Engine	piexifjs, open source, running in the browser
Processing	100% client-side; photos never uploaded
Cost	Free, no account, no watermark

Privacy: the tool never sees your photos

Removing location data through a server-side tool would be self-defeating. The file is parsed in browser memory, the cleaned copy is rebuilt locally from the same pixels, and nothing is transmitted or logged. Closing the tab clears everything.

Metadata hygiene

• Strip location and camera data before posting photos publicly.
• Keep a private master with full metadata for your own archive.
• Check orientation: cleaning may reset it on some viewers.
• Remember screenshots have no EXIF, the risk is camera photos.
• Re-check after editing in another app, which may re-add data.

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EXIF metadata: what it holds and why removal matters

Every photo from a phone or camera carries metadata alongside the pixels, and the amount of it surprises most people. EXIF can include the exact GPS coordinates where the picture was taken, the date and time down to the second, the device make and model, the lens and exposure settings, the software used to edit it, and even a serial number or owner name in some cameras. Orientation is stored there too, which is why an image can look upright in one viewer and sideways in another. The privacy risk is concrete: a photo posted from home can reveal the street address, and a photo taken at a workplace can identify the building. Serial numbers and device models help link photos taken by the same person across different accounts. Removing metadata is not the same as editing the image, so quality is untouched, but two details matter. First, re-saving through an editor often strips some fields and keeps others, so a dedicated tool that reports what it found and removes everything is safer. Second, some platforms strip metadata on upload while others preserve it, so do not rely on the destination. Viewing metadata is also useful legitimately, for checking the capture date of a scanned document or confirming an image was not edited. Everything runs locally in your browser.