# EXIF Remover

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

- Category: Web (web)
- URL: https://ilham.dev/tools/exif-remover/
- Documentation: https://ilham.dev/tools/exif-remover/index.md
- Keywords: exif, remove, strip, metadata, gps, privacy, photo, image, clean, anonymise, scrubbing

## Example questions

- Does re-encoding change how the picture looks?
- Why does the file sometimes get bigger?
- Is the metadata really gone?

## Properties

- Runs in the browser
- No login required
- No data uploaded


## About

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.


## 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.