EXIF Viewer & Remover

Photos from phones and cameras carry more than the picture. The EXIF block records the camera make and model, often its serial number, the date and time the photo was taken, the settings used — and, if location was on, the GPS coordinates of where you were standing, accurate to a few metres. Editing apps add XMP, news and stock photos carry IPTC captions and credits, and PNG files can hold text notes. Choose a JPEG, PNG or WebP to see every one of these blocks, with the GPS position shown first because it is the one most people need to know about before sharing a photo.

Removing metadata here is lossless. Most tools that "remove EXIF" decode the image and save it again, which re-compresses the pixels and loses a little quality each time. This tool instead rewrites the file's list of blocks and copies the compressed picture through untouched — and after every removal it re-reads the new file and confirms that the image data is byte-for-byte the same, telling you if it ever were not. If you also want to crop, resize or convert, the Image Compressor does that (and strips EXIF as part of re-encoding).

Two blocks are treated with care. The ICC colour profile is kept by default, because it tells screens how to display the colours — removing it can make a photo look dull or oversaturated. And the orientation tag, which lives inside EXIF, is how a photo taken with the phone turned sideways is shown upright. When you remove EXIF from such a photo, the clean copy keeps a tiny EXIF block holding only the orientation — no location, no camera, no date — unless you untick it, in which case the page warns you how the picture will then appear. Everything runs in your browser; your photo is never uploaded.