Does the picture itself change?

No. The pixels are untouched; only the metadata block is removed.

Does this really include location?

Yes, where the photo has it. Phone cameras commonly record GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres, which is what most people are surprised by.

Is the photo uploaded to check it?

No, and that is the point of doing it this way. Sending a photo somewhere to have its location stripped rather defeats the exercise.

Strip EXIF and GPS data from a photo

Remove hidden EXIF metadata, including GPS coordinates, from photos in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

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Every photo your phone takes carries a block of metadata alongside the image. Camera model, the exact date and time, exposure settings — and, very often, the precise latitude and longitude where you were standing. It travels with the file when you email it, attach it to a listing, or send it to someone you have never met.

This strips that block out and gives you back the same image with the pixels untouched. Nothing about how the photo looks changes; what changes is what it quietly tells anyone who opens it in the right tool.

This is the one conversion on the site where doing it in the browser is not merely a nice property but the whole point. Uploading a photo to a stranger's server to have its location data removed means handing them the photo and the location data. Here the file never leaves the tab, so there is nothing to trust anyone with.

How it works

Drop the photo on the page
Strip the metadata
Download the cleaned image

Worth knowing. Removes the metadata block, not anything encoded into the picture itself — a street sign or a house number visible in the frame is still visible. Some apps re-add metadata when a photo is edited or re-saved afterwards, so strip it last.

Questions

Does the picture itself change?: No. The pixels are untouched; only the metadata block is removed.
Does this really include location?: Yes, where the photo has it. Phone cameras commonly record GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres, which is what most people are surprised by.
Is the photo uploaded to check it?: No, and that is the point of doing it this way. Sending a photo somewhere to have its location stripped rather defeats the exercise.

Everything the converter reads and writes →

Runs entirely in your browser. The file is never uploaded, so there is nothing for us to store, log or lose. No account, no watermark, no size paywall.