Remove EXIF, GPS, and camera metadata from photos. Free, private, runs in your browser.
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Photo metadata is hidden information stored inside an image file. EXIF is the most familiar type, but photos can also include XMP, IPTC, color profile, software, and device fields. Depending on the camera or app, metadata may include GPS coordinates, camera make and model, lens settings, date and time, altitude, editing software, and sometimes device-specific identifiers. That information can be useful in your own library, but it can reveal more than you intended when a photo is shared publicly.
A photo metadata remover is most useful when you are about to share an image outside your own library. It helps strip EXIF data, GPS location, camera details, timestamps, and common XMP/IPTC fields before posting to forums, marketplaces, dating profiles, job listings, blogs, or public social accounts. Some platforms remove metadata automatically, but not every app or website handles it the same way. If you want control, removing the hidden data yourself is the safer habit.
Convertful re-encodes the image in your browser without carrying over embedded metadata. JPG, PNG, and WebP stay in their original format; HEIC, HEIF, and AVIF are exported as clean JPG files because browsers cannot reliably save those formats from canvas. The result is a share-ready image with metadata removed, and your photos are never uploaded or transmitted.
The remover is built for the formats people actually share: JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, HEIF, and AVIF. JPG is the classic EXIF-heavy format, HEIC/HEIF is common for iPhone photos, and PNG/WebP can carry text chunks or embedded metadata depending on the app that created them. JPG, PNG, and WebP are cleaned in the same format; HEIC, HEIF, and AVIF are decoded and exported as clean JPG files.
The cleaned copy is rebuilt without common parser-visible EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, camera, date, location, software, and text metadata. The visible pixels remain the point of the file, but the hidden sharing details are stripped where the browser can read and rewrite them. Some required technical structure, such as image headers and color data, can remain because the output still needs to be a valid image.
Use it before sharing photos that could reveal a home address, workplace, school, client location, camera model, editing software, or original capture time. It is also useful before uploading product photos, screenshots, social images, dating-profile photos, marketplace listings, and blog images where the visible picture matters but the hidden file history does not.
Yes. This tool is designed for privacy and follows the same principle it recommends: keep the file local. All processing happens in your browser, so Convertful does not receive, store, or inspect your images. Close the tab and the working files are gone from the page.
This tool removes common embedded photo metadata such as EXIF camera details, GPS location, timestamps, and many XMP/IPTC fields when those fields are present in supported image files.
Yes. EXIF is the metadata type most people mean when they search for a photo metadata remover, but images can also contain XMP, IPTC, and other metadata blocks.
Yes. If a JPG or HEIC/HEIF photo contains GPS coordinates, the cleaned copy removes that location metadata. HEIC and HEIF photos are exported as clean JPG files.
It removes common parser-visible EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, and text metadata from supported images. Some harmless technical structure, such as required image headers or color data, may remain because the file still needs to be a valid image.
JPG, PNG, and WebP are re-encoded in the same format. HEIC, HEIF, and AVIF are exported as clean JPG files because browsers cannot reliably save those formats from canvas.
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, HEIF, and AVIF images. JPG, PNG, and WebP stay in their original format. HEIC, HEIF, and AVIF are converted to clean JPG files.
Only for HEIC, HEIF, and AVIF. Those formats are converted to JPG while removing embedded metadata. JPG, PNG, and WebP remain in the same format.
No. The metadata removal runs in your browser, so your photos stay on your device and are not uploaded to Convertful.