A phone writes where, when and with what a photo was taken into the file itself. Open the photo here and the card lists what it found and removed. The image data and the color profile are copied as they are, so the picture looks the same and the file gets a little smaller. Several photos come back as one ZIP.

1. Click Choose a photo, or drop one or more JPG, PNG or HEIC files on the page. To do several at once, select them together in the dialog.
2. Read the card. Each line names a field that was removed and what it said, for example Location removed · was 12.3456° N, 98.7654° E, so you know what the photo was carrying.
3. Click Download JPG (Download PNG for a PNG, Download ZIP for several). The file keeps its name. To check the copy, open it on this page again: the card reads No metadata in this file.

Only JPG and PNG are stripped byte for byte. An iPhone HEIC, an AVIF or a WebP is read and listed like a JPG, but its copy is a new JPG made from the picture at quality 92, so the image is re-encoded and the file is often larger than the HEIC. TIFF and other formats are re-encoded the same way, without a list of what they carried. Location, camera and date get a line each; everything else that was removed, including IPTC, comments and extra images stored after the picture, is named on one line, without its values. On a phone, up to 20 photos go in one batch.

Does the photo look any different?

Not for a JPG or PNG: only the metadata segments are dropped. The image data is copied byte for byte and the color profile stays, so the colors show the same. The file gets smaller by about the size of what was removed: a few kilobytes for EXIF alone, more when the phone stored a thumbnail or extra images after the picture. A HEIC is saved as a new JPG, so it is re-encoded.

My PNG says "No metadata in this file".

Screenshots and most PNGs never had EXIF, so there is nothing to remove. The copy you download shows the same picture.

Do chat apps remove this for me?

Many strip EXIF when you send a picture as a photo, and keep it when you send it as a file, by email or through cloud storage, but each app decides for itself and can change. Remove it first if you are not sure.

Can I keep the date but drop the location?

Not here: the card removes everything except the color profile and the orientation tag, and Photopip can't write a date taken back into a JPG.

What if I edit the photo and save it as a PSD?

The PSD keeps the camera model and date in its XMP (after reopening, they show under Raw Data in File > File Info), but not the location unless you tick Include Location When Saving there. To share the picture without any of it, download it from this page.

Does this hide where the photo was taken?

It removes the coordinates stored in the file. What the picture itself shows, such as a house number, a street sign or a license plate, can still place it; blur those before you share, for example with Blur a license plate.

Updated 2026-10-27

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A phone writes where, when and with what a photo was taken into the file itself. Open the photo here and the card lists what it found and removed. The image data and the color profile are copied as they are, so the picture looks the same and the file gets a little smaller. Several photos come back as one ZIP.

1. Click Choose a photo, or drop one or more JPG, PNG or HEIC files on the page. To do several at once, select them together in the dialog.
2. Read the card. Each line names a field that was removed and what it said, for example Location removed · was 12.3456° N, 98.7654° E, so you know what the photo was carrying.
3. Click Download JPG (Download PNG for a PNG, Download ZIP for several). The file keeps its name. To check the copy, open it on this page again: the card reads No metadata in this file.

Only JPG and PNG are stripped byte for byte. An iPhone HEIC, an AVIF or a WebP is read and listed like a JPG, but its copy is a new JPG made from the picture at quality 92, so the image is re-encoded and the file is often larger than the HEIC. TIFF and other formats are re-encoded the same way, without a list of what they carried. Location, camera and date get a line each; everything else that was removed, including IPTC, comments and extra images stored after the picture, is named on one line, without its values. On a phone, up to 20 photos go in one batch.

Does the photo look any different?

Not for a JPG or PNG: only the metadata segments are dropped. The image data is copied byte for byte and the color profile stays, so the colors show the same. The file gets smaller by about the size of what was removed: a few kilobytes for EXIF alone, more when the phone stored a thumbnail or extra images after the picture. A HEIC is saved as a new JPG, so it is re-encoded.

My PNG says "No metadata in this file".

Screenshots and most PNGs never had EXIF, so there is nothing to remove. The copy you download shows the same picture.

Do chat apps remove this for me?

Many strip EXIF when you send a picture as a photo, and keep it when you send it as a file, by email or through cloud storage, but each app decides for itself and can change. Remove it first if you are not sure.

Can I keep the date but drop the location?

Not here: the card removes everything except the color profile and the orientation tag, and Photopip can't write a date taken back into a JPG.

What if I edit the photo and save it as a PSD?

The PSD keeps the camera model and date in its XMP (after reopening, they show under Raw Data in File > File Info), but not the location unless you tick Include Location When Saving there. To share the picture without any of it, download it from this page.

Does this hide where the photo was taken?

It removes the coordinates stored in the file. What the picture itself shows, such as a house number, a street sign or a license plate, can still place it; blur those before you share, for example with Blur a license plate.

Updated 2026-10-27

More toolsView image metadataRedact a screenshotCompress image