Image Metadata Viewer/Remover
View and remove EXIF metadata from images including GPS coordinates, camera settings, and personal information. Supports batch processing with drag-and-drop functionality for PNG, JPG, WEBP formats.
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About Image Metadata Viewer
- • View and analyze EXIF metadata embedded in your images
- • Detect GPS location data, camera information, and software details
- • Remove sensitive metadata to protect your privacy
- • Supports JPEG, PNG, WEBP and other common image formats
- • Process multiple images at once and download as ZIP
- • All processing happens in your browser - no data is uploaded to servers
About Image Metadata Viewer/Remover
The Image Metadata Viewer and Remover displays and strips EXIF data from images, including GPS coordinates, camera settings, timestamps, and other potentially sensitive information. This privacy-focused tool protects your personal data while showing detailed technical information about your photos.
Why use a Image Metadata Viewer/Remover?
Removing metadata protects your privacy by eliminating GPS locations, camera serial numbers, and other personal information before sharing images online. Viewing metadata helps photographers analyze camera settings, verify image authenticity, and understand technical details for better photography.
Who is it for?
This tool is essential for privacy-conscious users sharing images online, photographers analyzing camera settings and EXIF data, real estate professionals removing location data, and anyone concerned about personal information embedded in their photos.
How to use the tool
Upload your images using the drag-and-drop interface or batch file picker
View the EXIF metadata found in JPEG, PNG and WebP files, including camera, lens, exposure settings and GPS coordinates
Click Remove All Metadata to re-encode the images without their metadata (there is no option to keep individual fields)
Download the cleaned images, which are re-encoded and lose their embedded colour profile
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I view or remove EXIF metadata from an image?
Drag and drop your image file (JPG, PNG, WebP — formats that support EXIF). The tool reads and displays the EXIF metadata: GPS coordinates, camera make/model, lens, exposure settings, capture timestamp, software used, copyright. XMP data is flagged as present but not decoded, and HEIC/AVIF files are not readable. Click 'Remove All Metadata' to download a cleaned version with metadata stripped. Reading happens client-side — your image never leaves your device. Useful for privacy review before sharing photos publicly.
What is EXIF and what does it reveal about a photo?
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a metadata standard embedded in image files by cameras and editing software. Common fields: camera make and model (which can identify the specific device used), lens, exposure settings, ISO, focal length, GPS coordinates (where the photo was taken — exact lat/lon often within a few meters), capture timestamp, edit history. Photos uploaded to social media often have EXIF stripped by the platform, but photos shared directly (email, file transfer) usually retain it.
Is my image uploaded to a server?
No. Metadata reading and removal both run entirely in your browser via JavaScript. Your image never reaches a server, never gets logged. Verify in DevTools' Network tab: viewing or stripping metadata produces zero HTTP requests. EXIF parsing and the clean-up both happen locally in JavaScript, so nothing needs to be uploaded. Safe for highly sensitive photos.
Should I strip EXIF before publishing photos?
Generally yes for privacy. EXIF GPS coordinates can reveal your home address, workplace, or daily movements if exposed via published photos. Camera make/model can identify specific devices (forensic implications). Capture timestamps reveal when you were where. Most social media platforms strip EXIF on upload, but direct sharing (email, blog uploads, file transfers) usually preserves it. For public publishing, strip first. For private family archives or professional photography portfolios, you may want to preserve EXIF for organisation and legal/authorship purposes.
Why does my photo have GPS coordinates I didn't expect?
Smartphones embed GPS coordinates by default — the location services on your phone tag every photo with the lat/lon where it was taken. The setting is typically under Settings → Privacy → Location Services → Camera. If you didn't disable this, every photo carries precise location data. Most users are unaware. Strip EXIF before publishing any photos taken at sensitive locations (home, work, friends' homes, secure facilities).
What's left after I strip metadata?
The pixel data — the actual image. Any field that wasn't pixel data is gone: GPS, camera info, timestamp, copyright, edit history, thumbnails and the embedded colour profile. The tool strips metadata by redrawing the image on a canvas and saving it again, so the file is re-encoded: JPEG and WebP are saved at quality 95 (a small extra quality loss), PNG stays lossless, and formats the browser can't save, such as HEIC, AVIF and GIF, come out as PNG. The orientation tag is applied to the pixels, so the image still displays the right way up. Because the colour profile is dropped, colours can shift slightly on wide-gamut images.
Can I selectively strip some EXIF fields?
This tool offers all-or-nothing stripping: every metadata field is removed and you can't keep individual ones such as camera info or copyright. For most privacy use cases all-or-nothing is the right model — when in doubt, strip everything. If you need to keep attribution or camera metadata, keep the original file instead of the cleaned copy.
What other metadata formats exist besides EXIF?
Several. EXIF is the most common in JPEG/TIFF photos. XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform) is Adobe's metadata format, often coexists with EXIF and adds editing history. IPTC is the news/photography industry's metadata standard (headlines, captions, photographer name). ICC colour profiles describe the image's colour space. PNG has its own tEXt/iTXt chunks. WebP has its own native metadata. This tool only decodes EXIF (from JPEG, PNG and WebP) and flags XMP as present; it does not decode XMP or IPTC fields. Removing metadata drops all of these, plus the colour profile, because the image is re-encoded.
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