Pick a photo to see hidden location, device and timestamp metadata (EXIF) — all in your browser — and strip it if you want. Nothing is uploaded.
Free with no sign-up, and the check runs inside your browser, so what you enter never leaves your device. The result is a signal to help you decide, not proof for money or legal decisions.
Before you post a photo online, check the metadata hidden in the file (location, device, time) and download a clean copy with it removed. All processing stays inside your browser.
Smartphone photos are saved with metadata called EXIF, which holds the capture time, camera model and often GPS coordinates (latitude/longitude). Posting a photo taken at home or work as-is can expose your exact location.
There are real cases of a person's movements being traced from the GPS in photos posted to marketplaces, social media or forums. Photos containing children, pets or licence plates carry extra risk when combined with location data.
It re-encodes the uploaded image inside your browser to produce a copy with the metadata stripped. The original pixels (the picture) are kept, but extra information like EXIF and GPS is gone. Download the copy and upload that instead.
Many social platforms strip metadata on upload automatically, but it often remains in messengers, email, cloud links and direct file sharing. This is especially useful when you hand over original files directly.
EXIF holds more than people expect: the latitude and longitude where the shot was taken, the date and time, camera make and model, lens details, and the editing software used. Phones store location alongside photos by default in many configurations.
The risk grows with volume rather than with any single image. Coordinates repeating across a few photos taken at home reveal where you live, and with timestamps attached, when you are there. Marketplace listing photos and pet pictures — the ones posted without thinking — are exactly the ones that do this.
Screenshots generally carry no location data, because a redrawn screen produces no capture metadata. Files shared straight from a camera app almost always do.
Major social platforms often remove EXIF during upload, which is where the belief comes from. It is half true.
Several routes preserve it. Sending at original quality in a messenger, cloud sharing links, email attachments and marketplace chats that pass the file itself all deliver the original intact. Some platforms strip metadata for display while keeping it in the downloadable original.
And it is not retroactive. Changing a setting today does nothing for photos already posted. Reverse the order instead: rather than uploading and hoping it gets stripped, check here first and upload a cleaned copy.
Remove the location data and the picture itself often still names the place: a building visible through a window, a shop sign, a road marking, a block number. With reverse image search and a map service, narrowing it down does not take long.
People-shaped information sits in there too. Names and addresses on delivery labels, school uniforms and staff passes, vehicle plates, prescriptions and receipts caught in the background. Often it exposes someone else in the frame rather than you.
So the sequence is two steps: strip the metadata, then look at the photo again with your own eyes. Interior shots and product photos deserve a check of the corners in particular. Crop or mask what you find and upload that copy.
An original phone photo still carried latitude and longitude, capture time and device model. Plotted on a map, the coordinates identify a specific building. Download the stripped copy and upload that instead. This matters most for photos sent to strangers, such as marketplace listings.
An image received through a chat app had almost nothing left to strip, because most platforms remove EXIF at upload time. The result reads "nothing to remove". Note what that does and does not mean: the platform stripped it for viewers, which is not the same as the platform never having collected it.
Buildings through the window, signage, uniforms, licence plates and even socket shapes stay in the pixels after every EXIF field is gone. This tool touches file metadata only. So "metadata removed" is not a privacy guarantee. Looking at what is actually visible in the frame is still a human job.
No. Both checking and removing metadata happen inside your browser and the photo is never transmitted.
Re-encoding can introduce a tiny difference, but it is at a level hard to tell apart by eye.
This tool re-encodes the image to produce a copy without metadata. A very small quality change is possible but hard to see on screen. Keep the original untouched and make a separate copy for sharing.
Not through this tool. The platform most likely removed metadata at upload, but that is not guaranteed. To find out, download the photo from the post and check it here. If data remains, taking the post down and reuploading a cleaned copy is the only route.