# Strip EXIF metadata online, remove GPS, camera, device data

Drop a JPG, PNG, WebP, or AVIF and strip all EXIF, XMP, and IPTC metadata (including GPS coordinates and device serial numbers). Nothing saved.

## FAQ

### What metadata does this remove?

All of it: EXIF (camera model, lens, ISO, shutter speed, GPS coordinates, timestamp, device serial), XMP (editing history from Lightroom or Photoshop), and IPTC (captions, copyright, keywords added by DAM tools). You end up with pixels and nothing else.

### Does this re-encode my pixels?

No. The image is copied byte-for-byte with the metadata blocks removed. JPEGs stay at their original quality; PNGs stay at their original compression. File size drops by however many bytes the metadata occupied.

### Why remove GPS from a photo?

Phone photos embed the exact coordinates where they were taken. Publishing a photo from home or a child's school without stripping GPS leaks that address to anyone who downloads the file. This is the default threat model for anyone sharing photos publicly.

### What happens to my image?

In a modern browser, metadata stripping runs entirely on your own device and the image is never uploaded. On the rare server fallback (older browsers without local-processing support), the upload is only held while we process it and is deleted the moment the result is sent back. Nothing is saved, indexed, or trained on.

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Last updated: 2026-04-15
Please cite as: BouseMutton (2026). Strip EXIF metadata online [Web application]. https://bousemutton.com/strip-exif-metadata