# EXIF Remover Guide

Strip EXIF, GPS and other hidden metadata from a photo by re-encoding it in the browser.

- Tool: https://ilham.dev/tools/exif-remover/
- Guide URL: https://ilham.dev/guides/exif-remover/
- Tool guides index: https://ilham.dev/guides/tools/
- Broader guide: Practical Image Tools (https://ilham.dev/guides/practical-image-tools/)

## What it does

A photo carries more than the picture: the camera model, the time it was taken, the software that saved it and often the exact place on the map. Re-encoding the pixels through a canvas rebuilds the image without any of that, so what you share carries only what you can see.

## Use the tool

Open https://ilham.dev/tools/exif-remover/, add the input the tool asks for, run it, and check the output before using it elsewhere.

## Input and output

- Input: text.
- Output: text.
- Category: Web.

## Privacy and processing
Processing happens locally in your browser. This tool does not upload the input to ilham.dev.

## Questions

### Does re-encoding change how the picture looks?

It redraws the same pixels, so it looks the same to the eye. A JPEG is saved again at the chosen quality, which costs a little sharpness; choosing PNG or a high quality keeps that to a minimum.

### Why does the file sometimes get bigger?

The original may have been compressed very hard or stored as a smaller size. Re-encoding at a high quality can produce more bytes than you started with, and the change line shows that rather than hiding it.

### Is the metadata really gone?

Yes. The output is written fresh from the canvas, and a canvas only holds pixels, so EXIF, GPS, XMP and any embedded thumbnail have no way to come along.