EXIF Metadata Viewer, Editor & Remover
An EXIF viewer for JPEGs and PNGs that lists every block a clean copy removes (EXIF, XMP, IPTC, PNG text), keeps GPS on the page, and rewrites nine fields.
Photos
Drop photos here
JPEG or PNG · one photo to look inside, or a batch to clean
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Blocks in this file
Fields
read field by field from the EXIF block
Photos to clean
This photo carries
How to use
- Drop a JPEG or PNG under Choose files. On a phone, Take photo works too, which is a quick way to find out what your own camera stamps into a shot.
- Read the block list first: it is everything a clean copy removes. Then the Fields table for the camera, the date and the location.
- Press Save clean copy, then Download clean copy. Or press Edit these fields to change the camera, the credit, the date or the location before saving an edited copy.
- Cleaning a set? Drop several files, choose one under Look inside to see what it carries, run Clean all, and take the cleaned copies with Download zip.
What's hiding in a photo
Photographs carry a second layer that nobody looks at. Drop a JPEG here and the Fields table fills with what the camera wrote at the moment of capture: make and model, lens, exposure time, aperture, ISO, the pixel dimensions, whatever software touched the file afterwards, and quite often a latitude and longitude precise enough to name the doorstep you were standing on. The coordinates stay on the page. Copy coordinates puts them on your clipboard, and Open in Maps says before you press it that it hands them to OpenStreetMap in a new tab.
Above the fields sits a list of every block the clean copy would take, not just the one this page can read field by field. EXIF is listed; XMP editing history and IPTC captions are counted and weighed; a PNG's text chunks, where an author's name or a street address can hide, are listed key by key. A file earns the message that it needs nothing done only after every one of those was looked for. Save clean copy drops the lot and copies the picture data across untouched, and the strip says how many bytes left. Edit these fields opens nine of them for rewriting, which is a JPEG job.
One holiday photo, before and after
Say you drop in IMG_4021.JPG from a phone. The table lists Camera make Apple, a Camera model, an Exposure time, an Aperture written as f/1.6, ISO 32 and a GPS location reading 48.8584, 2.2945. The block list above says one EXIF block, about 12 KB, with the location inside it.
Press Save clean copy and the list turns into Blocks removed, with the location gone alongside the EXIF block; Download clean copy hands over IMG_4021-clean.JPG. Load that file back in and the page says it was checked for EXIF, XMP, IPTC and PNG text and none is left.
Good to know
- JPEG and PNG are the only formats it reads. An iPhone HEIC has to go through the Image Converter before it can be opened here.
- Editing is JPEG only, and the save rebuilds the EXIF block from scratch. Camera maker notes and the embedded thumbnail get dropped along the way, though the picture itself is copied over byte for byte. XMP and IPTC are counted and removed, never listed field by field.
- Stripping reaches the metadata blocks and nothing else. A timestamp burned into the corner of the frame, or a street sign visible in the background, stays exactly where it is. Blur Face is the tool for what the picture itself gives away.
Frequently asked questions
What is EXIF data on a photo?
Information the camera writes into the file alongside the picture. Make, model, lens, the exposure settings, the date and time, the software that edited it later, and on most phones the GPS position. None of it shows up in the image. All of it travels with the file when you send it.
How do I find out where a photo was taken?
Open it here and look for the GPS location row. If the camera recorded a position, the row shows the latitude and longitude, and Copy coordinates or Open in Maps take it further — the second one opens OpenStreetMap in a new tab, which is the only time the coordinates leave the page. No GPS row means the photo either never had coordinates or has already lost them.
Can I tell what camera and lens took a photo?
When the shot still has its metadata, the table names the make and model, the lens where the camera recorded one, and the settings behind the shot: aperture, exposure time, ISO and focal length. Photos that have been through a heavy editor or a social feed usually come back with far less.
Does stripping the metadata make the picture look worse?
It cannot. Removing metadata means deleting the segments that hold it and copying the image data across unchanged, with no decode and no re-encode anywhere in the process. The clean copy loses the IPTC and XMP blocks too, so captions, keywords and editing history go with the EXIF.
Can I change the date a photo was taken?
Press Edit these fields, set a new Date taken, and save the edited copy. Handy when a camera clock was hours off, or a scanned print landed in your library dated the day you scanned it rather than the day the picture happened.
I only want the GPS gone. Can I keep the rest?
Yes. In the editor, clear both the Latitude and Longitude boxes and save. The location tags disappear while the camera, the date and the copyright fields stay as they were. Typing different numbers into those two boxes moves the pin instead of removing it.
Why does a PNG with no EXIF still have something to remove?
PNG keeps its words in text chunks rather than EXIF: an author, a comment, a copyright line, the program that saved it. They are listed here key by key, and Save clean copy takes them. A picture saved off a big platform usually comes back with nothing at all, because the platform stripped it on upload.
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