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Remove location data from photos

See what a photo reveals, then delete the GPS and camera metadata on your device. The pixels are left as they are, apart from sideways JPGs when Apply orientation is on.

Delete the GPS location, camera and date metadata from JPG, PNG and WebP photos in your browser. It is free, needs no account and adds no watermark, and your files are not uploaded: everything runs in your browser on your device. The size limit is your device’s memory, and phones hold less; give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, and then it works offline.

Drop photos hereor click to choose files. Batches welcome.
    Recommended. Removing it can shift colors.
    A sideways JPG is re-encoded at quality 95 (without its color profile) so it still displays upright. Untick to copy every file unchanged; a sideways photo may then show sideways.
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    Your files are processed on this device and never sent to a server. Reload the page to clear everything from memory.

    Phones write the exact GPS coordinates of where a photo was taken into the file, along with the date, the phone model and sometimes the owner's name. Messaging apps usually strip this; email, cloud folders, marketplaces and many forums do not. Drop a photo here and the panel shows exactly what it contains, GPS included, before anything is changed.

    Removing it is lossless in the normal case. The tool deletes only the metadata segments of the JPG, PNG or WebP container and writes the image data back unchanged, so the picture is pixel-identical and the file gets slightly smaller. The one exception is a JPG stored sideways with a rotation tag while Apply orientation is ticked (the default): it is turned upright and saved again at quality 95, and untick the option to avoid that. Because this runs in your browser, the location never travels anywhere, which is the point of removing it.

    How it works

    1. Drop one or many photos, or tap to pick them. The panel lists what each one contains.
    2. Keep the colour profile ticked (recommended) so colours do not shift.
    3. Remove metadata. Download each cleaned photo, or all of them as a zip.

    In your browser, not on a server

    This tool reads the JPG, PNG or WebP container byte by byte and removes only the metadata segments (EXIF, XMP, IPTC and comments, plus the ICC colour profile if you untick Keep color profile), writing the image data back out unchanged. That is why the output is pixel-identical and the file only gets smaller. One case is re-encoded: a JPG stored sideways with an EXIF rotation tag, when Apply orientation is ticked (the default). It is decoded, turned upright and saved again as a JPG at quality 95, without its colour profile. Untick that option and every file is copied unchanged.

    Compared with upload-based tools: Sending a photo to a website to remove its location data is a contradiction: the site has the location the moment you upload it. Here the GPS block is deleted on your device and never travels anywhere.

    Verify it yourself. Give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, then turn off Wi-Fi or switch to airplane mode and run the tool again. Or open your browser's developer tools (F12, or Cmd-Option-I on a Mac), pick the Network tab, and watch it while you convert. The panel above does the same count for you.

    Questions

    Which apps already remove location data?

    WhatsApp, Signal, Messenger, Instagram, Facebook and X strip metadata from photos you post or send. Email attachments, Google Drive and Dropbox links, iMessage in full quality, marketplaces like Craigslist, and most forums keep it. For Discord, Reddit and Instagram in particular, see does Discord, Reddit or Instagram remove EXIF data.

    How can I check that the location is gone?

    Drop the cleaned photo back onto this page. The panel reads the file and reports "GPS location: no" and no removable metadata.

    Does it work for HEIC photos from an iPhone?

    Use the HEIC to JPG converter with "Keep EXIF metadata" unticked, which is the default: the converted JPG has no metadata at all.

    Is the image re-compressed?

    Not normally. Only the metadata blocks are removed and the image data is copied byte for byte, so there is no quality loss. The exception is a JPG stored sideways with a rotation tag while "Apply orientation to sideways photos" is ticked (the default): that photo is turned upright and saved again as a JPG at quality 95, and its color profile is dropped. Untick the option and it is copied unchanged, though it may then display sideways. PNG and WebP files are never re-compressed.

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