Remove Metadata from Photo
Works on iPhone and Android photos. Nothing leaves your device.
Photos you take on a phone usually carry the device model, the time, and often the exact coordinates. This tool removes those segments in your browser and shows you the file before and after.
Drop a photo here, or take 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 your phone writes into a photo
A phone photo carries more than the scene. It carries the phone.
Every shot can store the handset model, the lens, the capture time, the editing app and, if you allowed it, your location. That metadata travels with the file when you send or upload it. This page removes metadata from photo files directly on your device: choose a picture, let the cleaner cut the segments, then read the report. For the wider file picture, the Metadata Remover home page covers all supported formats.
GPS coordinates: where the photo was taken
Some photos remember the street, not just the city.
When location permission is on, a phone can write latitude, longitude and even altitude into the EXIF GPS block. Shared as-is, that photo metadata can reveal a home address, a workplace or a child's school. To remove that trail, this tool deletes the whole EXIF segment rather than editing single fields, so the GPS metadata is removed together with the rest of the block. The picture itself does not move a pixel.
EXIF fields that identify your device
Make, model, lens, and a serial number in some cases.
EXIF metadata records the device make and model, the lens, exposure settings, and sometimes a body or lens serial number. Editing apps add a software tag and processing history on top. None of this is needed to view the picture. When you remove metadata here, those fields go away as one segment, and the report lists the removed fields by name and count so you can verify what disappeared.
Remove metadata from an iPhone or Android photo
The steps are the same on both. The file is different.
On an iPhone you can take a photo with the camera button or pick an existing one; iOS may hand back a HEIC file, which this tool accepts. On Android, pick a JPEG, PNG or WebP from your gallery or files app. Then let the cleaner remove the metadata and download the result. There is no app to install and no account, and if the camera button is unavailable in your browser, choosing a file works exactly the same way.
PNG, HEIC and WebP photos
The container differs. The cleaning step does not.
PNG
PNG files often carry text chunks. Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI store prompts and workflow settings there as plain text. The tool removes those chunks and the EXIF chunk; the color profile and image data stay. For PNG, removing metadata is a chunk-level operation, and the image pixels are untouched.
HEIC
iPhones often shoot HEIC. The cleaner works on the file's box structure, removes the EXIF and XMP items and rebuilds the box sizes. HEIC metadata removal needs no re-encoding, and if a field cannot be checked, the report says so instead of guessing.
WebP
WebP stores EXIF and XMP as separate chunks, with header flags that announce them. The tool removes both chunks and clears those flags, so no reader goes looking for metadata that was removed. Image and animation chunks are left as they are.
What happens to a photo after you clean it
The pixels stay identical. The surrounding data does not.
Cleaning cuts whole metadata segments and copies everything else byte for byte, so the image looks and prints exactly the same. What changes is the file's declaration: device, time, place, software and any stored text are gone. The before-and-after table in your result lists each segment with its fate, and the report re-reads the output to confirm it. You can then see the free and paid plans if you also need video or PDF later.
If a photo shows no fields at all, treat that as absence of evidence, not as a verdict. Nothing found does not mean the file is not AI. Midjourney, for example, does not write C2PA or IPTC metadata as of early 2026, so its pictures usually have nothing to find; that is its writing behavior, not a detection failure, and removing metadata cannot change what pixels tell a detector.
Who this is for
Three jobs where a photo can carry too much.
eBay sellers
A listing photo with GPS in it tells buyers where the item is stored. Before you upload, run the picture through this metadata remover and keep the report with your records.
Etsy sellers
Product photos shot in a home studio carry the same device and location metadata as any phone picture. Removing it before listing keeps your workshop's location out of the public file.
Property listings
Rental and sale photos can expose more than the address you meant to publish, including interior shots tied to a device. Clean the files first, and use the metadata remover report to confirm the fields are gone.
Common questions
Can you remove AI labels from a photo?
A photo can carry an AI label in two different places. Inside the file it may be a Content Credentials manifest, an XMP field, or an IPTC field. Outside the file it is the caption or badge the app added when you posted it. We clean the part inside the file. We cannot reach the part on the platform. A badge applied at upload stays on the post until you take the post down.
Will this take off SynthID or a watermark on a photo?
No. SynthID lives in the pixels, not in the metadata segments, and this tool only touches metadata. Deleting the EXIF and XMP blocks will not delete the watermark. Other pixel-level marks work the same way. If a watermark is what you need gone, this is not the tool for it, and no amount of metadata cleaning will get you there.
Will a cleaned photo still be flagged as AI?
We do not use that word, and we do not make that claim. What we remove is the metadata that carried the AI signal. Nothing found does not mean the file is not AI. A photo can arrive from a phone with GPS, device model, and lens data, and still have no AI marker at all, or arrive with a marker no inspector reads. Detection also weighs pixels and compression, which cleaning cannot change.
Can EXIF and GPS data come back after I clean a photo?
Yes. A phone writes a new set of EXIF tags every time the shutter fires, and an editor, a messaging app, or a listing platform can add fields back on its own. If you clean a photo, sell the item, and then re-download it from the marketplace, check it again before you post it somewhere else. The report describes the file as it was when you cleaned it, not what it will contain later.
How do I confirm the GPS and device details are gone?
Open the report and compare the two lists. The left side is what we read from your iPhone or Android file before cleaning: device make and model, timestamps, GPS coordinates when they were present, and the rest. The right side is a second parse of the cleaned file, not a copy of the first. Fields we could not clear are still listed with a note. Download it and keep it with the photo.
Does my photo get uploaded anywhere?
Your photo stays on your phone or laptop. Everything runs inside the browser tab, so there is no upload, no server copy, and nothing for us to retain. No account is needed. This matters most with GPS: a listing photo that carries coordinates points at a real address, and the file never has to travel to us to lose them. If you clean a photo you have no right to change, that is on you.