EXIF Viewer and Remover

Typically the camera or phone model, the exact date and time, and the settings used. Photos taken on a phone with location services enabled also carry the GPS coordinates of where the shutter was pressed — often accurate to a few metres. That travels with the file wherever it is sent, which is why the coordinates are shown here on a map rather than as a row of numbers.

No, and this is the important difference from doing it by re-saving. This tool rewrites the file's container and copies the compressed image data across byte for byte, so the cleaned file is pixel-for-pixel identical to the original. Re-exporting through an editor also strips metadata, but it re-compresses the picture and costs quality every time.

Most large platforms strip EXIF when they process an upload, but you cannot rely on it: it varies by platform, by upload route, and it does nothing for a file sent by email, chat or cloud link. If it matters, strip it before it leaves your device.

The image data and the embedded colour profile. Dropping the colour profile would visibly shift the colours, so it stays. Everything else — EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, editor blocks and comments — is removed.

Because a lossless clean requires rewriting a container this tool understands, and those two are structured as chunks with explicit lengths. For other formats, converting with one of the image converters drops metadata as a side effect — at the cost of re-encoding.