EXIF Viewer & Remover
See photo metadata and GPS, then strip it without quality loss. Runs in your browser.
About this exif viewer & remover
This EXIF viewer shows the hidden metadata inside your photos, including camera, lens, settings, date and GPS location, and then removes it so you can share the picture safely. It is for anyone about to post, sell or send a photo who wants to know what the file gives away.
Drop in one photo or a whole folder. You get the key facts at a glance, a clear warning when a photo holds its location, and every tag in grouped tables. Removal is lossless for JPG, PNG and WebP, and nothing is uploaded, which matters when the whole point is privacy.
Features
Camera and settings at a glance
Camera model, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, date taken, software and author, without digging through hundreds of tags.
GPS warning with a map link
Coordinates appear in decimal and degrees-minutes-seconds with the altitude. A plain link opens the spot in OpenStreetMap only if you click it.
Every tag, grouped and searchable
Tables for EXIF, GPS, IPTC, each XMP namespace, the ICC profile and the thumbnail block, with a filter box and JSON export.
Lossless removal that keeps photos upright
Metadata blocks are cut out and the image data is copied byte for byte. A tiny Orientation tag is written back by default so phone photos don't turn sideways.
Batch with a ZIP and proof
Clean dozens of photos at once, see sizes before and after, and download a ZIP. Each cleaned file is read again to confirm no EXIF, GPS, IPTC or XMP is left.
How to use the exif viewer & remover
- 1Drop, browse or paste photos. A sample with GPS opens by default.
- 2Read camera, settings and location at a glance, or filter every tag in the tables.
- 3Press Remove metadata and download the cleaned photos, singly or as a ZIP.
When to use it
Selling something online
A photo of a bike taken in your hallway can carry your home address as GPS coordinates. Clean it before it goes on a listing site.
Sending photos by email or chat
Attachments, cloud links and files sent as documents in chat apps usually keep their metadata. Check and clean them first.
Learning from a good shot
Read the exact aperture, shutter speed, ISO and focal length you used, so you can repeat it or work out what went wrong.
Fixing sideways images
If a photo is upright on your phone but sideways on a website, look at the Orientation tag in the IFD0 table. It is usually the cause.
What is EXIF data?
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a set of tags that cameras and phones write into a photo when they save it, defined by the CIPA DC-008 standard. Typical tags are the make and model, exposure settings, date and time, orientation and, if location is on, GPS coordinates.
It is not the only kind. IPTC fields hold captions and credits for press photos. XMP, standardised as ISO 16684-1, is an XML block editing apps use for ratings and edit history. EXIF often holds a small preview image too, usually around 160×120 pixels. In some older workflows that thumbnail wasn't updated after a crop, so it still showed the full original.
How do I see where a photo was taken?
Open the photo here. If it has GPS tags, a red card shows the latitude and longitude. Six decimal places locate a point to about 11 centimetres, easily enough to find a front door.
Open in OpenStreetMap is an ordinary link, so the coordinates only leave your device if you click it. No card means the file has no location, either because location was off or because an app removed it.
Does removing EXIF data reduce quality?
Not here. Many removers decode the photo and save it again, which recompresses a JPG and loses a little detail. This tool works on the file structure instead.
A JPG is a chain of segments. Metadata lives in APP1 (EXIF and XMP), APP13 (IPTC) and comment segments, which are skipped while the compressed image data is copied as is. PNG and WebP work the same way with chunks. The file usually shrinks by a few dozen kilobytes, mostly the thumbnail.
- Keep orientation: on by default, so portrait photos stay upright.
- Keep color profile (ICC): on by default. Removing it can make wide-gamut photos look dull.
- Drop hidden extras after the JPG: on by default. Some phones append a motion-photo video, depth map or HDR gain map there. Turn it off to keep those effects.
Do social media sites remove EXIF?
Most large social networks strip location and camera data from the copy other people see. That only means the public copy is clean, not that the platform threw the data away.
Email, share links, forums, marketplaces and chat apps sending a photo as a file often keep everything. If you aren't sure where a picture will end up, clean it yourself.
Why use Mavros
| Mavros | Typical upload sites | |
|---|---|---|
| Where photos are processed | In your browser | Uploaded and kept for hours |
| How metadata is removed | Blocks cut out, pixels untouched | Photo re-encoded |
| Orientation after cleaning | Kept, photos stay upright | Often lost |
| Batch cleaning | Any number, ZIP download | One file at a time |
| Location map | Plain link you choose to open | Embedded map |
Tips
- Turn off location tagging in your camera app so new photos stay clean, then fix the ones you already have.
- iPhone HEIC photos can be viewed here but not cleaned losslessly. Convert HEIC photos to JPG first, then remove the metadata.
- Saving through a canvas, as the image format converter does, also drops metadata but re-encodes the pixels. Use this tool when quality matters.
- Cleaning saves only a few kilobytes. For much smaller files, run them through the image compressor afterwards.
- For big sets that also need resizing or renaming, the batch image editor strips metadata as one step of its pipeline.
Questions
How do I remove location data from a photo?
Add the photo, press Remove metadata and download the cleaned copy. GPS tags go along with all other EXIF, XMP and IPTC data, and the image is not re-compressed.
Does removing EXIF data reduce image quality?
No. JPG, PNG and WebP files are cleaned by deleting only the metadata blocks, and the compressed image data is copied unchanged, so the picture is pixel-for-pixel identical.
Why did my photo turn sideways after removing metadata?
The Orientation tag went with the rest of the EXIF. Phones often store pixels sideways and rely on that tag. Keep orientation is on by default here, which writes that one tag back.
Which file types are supported?
Viewing works for JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF and TIFF. Lossless removal works for JPG, PNG and WebP. GIF and BMP files rarely carry camera metadata and cannot be read.
Is EXIF data reliable?
It is a good clue, not proof. Metadata can be edited, the camera clock may be wrong or set to another time zone, and indoor GPS can be off by several metres.
Why does my photo show no metadata?
Something removed it before it reached you. Social networks, chat apps, screenshots and many editors drop EXIF when they save or share a picture.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. Reading and cleaning happen entirely in your browser. Nothing leaves your device unless you click the OpenStreetMap link, which sends only the coordinates to that map site.