How to remove EXIF data from photos (free, browser-local)
Step-by-step guide to remove EXIF data from JPG, PNG, HEIC and RAW images — free, private, and no upload required.
EXIF data is the hidden metadata your camera or phone embeds in every photo: GPS coordinates, camera serial number, timestamp, and edit history. If you share photos publicly — on a blog, Reddit, a dating profile, a marketplace listing — that data usually travels with the file. Anyone who downloads it can read it.
The safest way to remove EXIF data is to strip it locally, without ever uploading the image to a third-party server. That's exactly what ExifVision does.
## Remove EXIF data in three clicks
1. Open [ExifVision](/) in your browser. 2. Drop the image (JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, TIFF, or RAW) onto the upload zone. 3. Scroll to the Scrub Metadata panel, choose Remove EVERYTHING (or just GPS), and click Download clean copy.
Your original file is never modified and never leaves your device. The stripped copy is generated in-browser and saved straight to your downloads folder.
## What "remove EXIF data" actually removes
- GPS block — latitude, longitude, altitude, heading, GPS timestamp. - Camera fingerprint — make, model, body serial number, lens serial number. - Timestamps — original capture time, digitized time, modification time. - Software fingerprint — OS version, editor build (Lightroom, Photoshop, mobile app). - Thumbnail — many cameras embed a JPEG preview that itself carries EXIF. - IPTC and XMP blocks — captions, ratings, edit history, creator IDs.
## When should you remove EXIF?
Any time a photo goes to the open web and you don't want a permanent, machine-readable record of where and how it was taken. Real-estate listings, missing-persons posters, protest photos, marketplace ads, dating apps, and personal blogs are the classic cases.
Instagram, Facebook, and X strip EXIF on upload. Discord, iMessage attachments in Files, direct email attachments, Reddit direct uploads, and most personal websites do not. Strip before you post.