Metadata Remover
Photos in your browser. Nothing uploaded.
A photo carries the device that took it, the time it was taken, and often the place. This tool reads those segments, removes them in your browser, and shows you exactly what changed.
Drop a file here, or choose one
JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, up to 100MB.
This file is over 50MB. It may take a while on a phone; a desktop browser will handle it faster.
Choose a file to see what was removed, then download the cleaned file and its report.
What changed in this file
Nothing to show. This file did not carry these fields.
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What file metadata is, and what it carries
A photo holds more than pixels. It holds a record of how it was made.
Alongside the image data, a file can store the camera or phone model, the lens, a serial number, the date and time, GPS coordinates, editing software, and a thumbnail. Some of that arrives from the camera, some is added later by an editor or an app. A metadata remover works on these extra segments rather than on the picture itself, so the pixels stay exactly as they were.
People use a metadata remover for ordinary, practical reasons: a listing photo should not tell strangers where the item is stored, and a screenshot shared at work should not carry a device serial number. If you mainly handle phone pictures, the page about photo metadata goes field by field.
Remove metadata in three steps
Pick a file, run the cleaner, read the report.
First, drop a file onto the tool below or choose one from your device. Second, let the metadata remover strip the segments it knows about; the work happens on your device, and the file is not sent anywhere. Third, download the cleaned file and, if you want proof, open the report and compare the before and after lists. Removing metadata this way takes three clicks at most, and there is no account to create.
Which formats work today
JPEG, PNG, WebP and HEIC work now. Video and PDF do not.
For JPEG, the metadata remover deletes the EXIF, XMP, IPTC and JUMBF segments and keeps the color profile and image data. For PNG it removes text chunks and the EXIF chunk, including the prompt and workflow text some generators store. For WebP it removes the EXIF and XMP chunks and clears the matching header flags. HEIC files are cleaned at the container level. When you clean metadata here, the output is a new file; your original never changes.
If you only need to remove metadata from a photo, the dedicated page explains the per-format details: Remove metadata from a photo.
What the report shows you
The report lists what was found, what was removed, and what was left alone.
Every run of this metadata remover ends with a downloadable report in HTML and JSON. It records the conclusion, the scope of that conclusion, the output file's hash, and a segment-by-segment list with counts. Removed segments are confirmed by re-reading the cleaned file with the same parser, so the after-list is a fresh read, not a copy. The report never prints the original values of removed fields, because a report you share should not leak the very data you just removed.
What in a file makes a platform label it as AI
Some platforms read a signature inside the file. Others read text an AI tool left behind.
A file can carry Content Credentials in a manifest segment, an XMP field that declares a synthetic source, or plain text blocks with a prompt and generation settings. These are different things, and the report names them separately. Midjourney is a useful counterexample: as of early 2026 it does not write C2PA or IPTC metadata, so its images usually show nothing at all. Nothing found does not mean the file is not AI. Removing metadata changes what a file declares; it cannot change what a detector sees in the pixels, and it cannot change a label a platform already placed on a post.
Common questions
Can you remove AI labels from a file?
It removes the tags inside the file, not the label a person sees on a screen. An AI label can sit in two places. Inside the file it is a Content Credentials manifest, an XMP field, or an IPTC field. Outside the file it is a caption, badge, or sticker added by the platform where the image was posted. We clean the first. We cannot reach the second. If a site applied the label during upload, it stays until you delete the post.
Does this remove SynthID or other watermarks?
No. SynthID is a watermark written into the pixels themselves, not into the metadata, and this tool only reads and removes metadata. Stripping the tags does not strip the watermark. Other pixel-level watermarks behave the same way. If you need those gone, we are the wrong tool, and any product that claims to do it by cleaning metadata is describing something else.
After cleaning, can a file still be detected as AI?
We do not claim that, and we do not use that word. Cleaning removes the metadata that carried the signal. Nothing found does not mean the file is not AI. A file can come from Midjourney with no C2PA manifest and no IPTC field at all; that is how that tool writes files, not a failure of our parser. Detection also runs on pixels, compression patterns, and watermarks, and we cannot change any of those.
Can metadata come back after I clean a file?
Yes. Metadata is not permanent. Any editor, camera app, or platform can write fresh tags into a file, and a re-upload or a screenshot can add or drop fields without asking you. Our report records what was in the file at the second you cleaned it, field by field, before and after. It is evidence about that moment, not a promise about tomorrow.
What exactly gets removed, and how do I check it myself?
The report shows the field list we read before cleaning and the field list we read after, side by side. The after column is a fresh parse of the cleaned file by the same parser, not a copy of the first read. Anything we could not remove stays visible with a note next to it instead of disappearing from the list. You can download the report and check it yourself.
Do you keep my file after I clean it?
Your file never leaves your browser. Cleaning runs on your own machine, so there is no copy on our servers to delete, no queue, and no temporary storage. We do not keep files for training, and you do not need an account to use the tool. One caveat: if you clean a file you have no right to modify, that is your responsibility, and a clean report does not make an image safe to use.
Pricing
The photo cleaner is free with no file limit.
This metadata remover runs on your own device, so unlimited use costs us nothing to offer. Paid plans are about video, PDF and an ad-free page. See what is free and what is not.