Remove Image Metadata

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is information your camera or phone stores inside a JPEG. It can include the make and model of the device, the date and time, exposure settings, and — if location services were on — the exact GPS coordinates where the photo was taken.

GPS data can reveal your home, workplace, or a child’s school. Device and date information can also be used to link separate photos to the same person. Removing metadata before posting photos publicly is a simple, effective privacy habit.

The tool redraws the image at full resolution and re-encodes it once. At the default high quality setting the difference is visually imperceptible, but because it is a re-encode you should keep the original if you need a perfect archive copy.

The detailed EXIF viewer reads JPEG files, which is where camera and GPS data usually lives. For PNG, WebP, and AVIF files, the cleaner still strips metadata by re-encoding, but the field-by-field preview focuses on JPEG.

Some photos rely on an EXIF orientation tag to display correctly. ImgSprint applies the correct orientation to the pixels while cleaning, so the result looks right in every viewer instead of depending on the tag.

This page inspects one photo at a time so you can see what is inside it. For cleaning many photos quickly, the Compress Image tool also removes metadata as a side effect of re-encoding a batch.