Image Metadata Remover

1. Choose one image. Drag and drop a JPG, PNG, or WebP file onto the box, or select one from your device. A preview appears, and the image's own dimensions are always kept — this tool creates a cleaner copy, not a resize.
2. Leave the output format as "Same as input" to keep the original format, or pick JPG, PNG, or WebP if you also want to convert while you're at it. Pick a quality setting if you chose JPG or WebP as the output format.
3. Select Download cleaned image. The image is read and re-encoded in your browser, and the result downloads immediately — nothing is uploaded anywhere.

What Image Metadata Remover does: it creates a new copy of a single JPG, PNG, or WebP image with common embedded metadata — such as camera make and model, exposure settings, and GPS location, where present — removed, entirely on your device, with no sign-up and no watermark added to the result.

Why remove image metadata? A photo file can carry more than the picture: camera and lens details, exposure settings, and, if location services were on, the exact GPS coordinates of where it was taken. That extra data travels with the file when you upload, email, or post it. Removing it before sharing is a reasonable, everyday privacy step for photos going on a website, an online store, a social post, or a document — this tool exists to make that one step simple, not to replace judgment about what you share.

Processed locally in your browser. No file upload is required for this tool — the image you select is read and re-encoded on your own device, and the result downloads without ever leaving it.

How the tool works. This tool creates a new re-encoded image copy intended to remove common image metadata. Re-encoding an image to a canvas and back never reads or writes metadata fields such as EXIF, so that data is dropped as a byproduct of the same decode-and-re-encode step every other Image & Media tool on this platform uses — not a separate, bespoke scrubbing pass.

Supported formats. JPG, PNG, and WebP are all supported as input. JPG is the most common carrier of camera and GPS metadata (EXIF); PNG and WebP can carry some metadata too, though typically less and less consistently across the tools that create them. Re-encoding removes what's present in any of the three, where practical.

Re-encoding and file-size changes. Re-encoding can change file size or visual compression, in either direction, even when the output format and pixel dimensions are unchanged. This is separate from — and not caused by — the metadata removal itself; it's an ordinary side effect of decoding and re-encoding any image. The original and output file sizes, and the difference, are shown so you can check.

What this tool does not guarantee. Some advanced metadata, embedded color profile behavior, or other format-specific details may vary by format and by the browser doing the re-encoding — this is not a byte-identical operation, and output can differ slightly between browsers because image encoders vary. This is an everyday privacy utility, not a professional forensic metadata-removal tool: for sensitive, legal, or forensic use, verify metadata removal with a dedicated professional tool rather than relying on this one. Very large images may fail because of browser memory limits.

Common errors. A specific, plain-English message explains exactly what went wrong: no image selected, a file that isn't a JPG, PNG, or WebP, a file over the size limit, an image over the pixel limit, or an image file that can't be read. Do not use this tool for images you are not allowed to process.