Does removing EXIF data reduce photo quality?

No. The metadata sits beside the image data, not inside it, so it can be removed without touching a pixel. JPEGs are not re-compressed — the image data is copied through byte for byte.

Is the photo uploaded to be processed?

No. This page does its work in your browser, and an automated test records every network request made while a file is open to enforce that none carries the file.

Do Instagram and Facebook strip EXIF for me?

The large photo platforms remove most metadata from what they display. The copies you send by email, by chat app as a document, or to a forum generally keep it. The habit that works everywhere is cleaning the file before it leaves you.

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Remove EXIF data from a photo

EXIF is the block of data a camera writes into every photo: where it was taken, when, and on what device. Drop a photo here and download a cleaned copy with that block removed — in your browser, so the photo is never uploaded, and without re-compressing a JPEG, so the picture itself is untouched.

Most tools that call themselves EXIF removers stop at EXIF. A photo can carry two more blocks — IPTC and XMP — and either one can hold the same location and identity data. Cleaning here removes all three.

Works today, in your browser. Photos open in the editor and Word documents are checked for hidden data; either way the file is read on your device and never uploaded.

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What EXIF typically contains

Not every photo carries every field, but a phone photo with default settings usually has most of these:

GPS coordinates, usually to within a few meters
Date and time of capture, to the second
Camera or phone make and model, sometimes a serial number
Exposure settings, lens details and orientation
The editing software that last saved the file
An embedded thumbnail, which can survive a crop and still show the original frame

No re-compression — the picture is preserved

Removing metadata from a JPEG is a lossless operation: the compressed image data is copied through byte for byte, and only the metadata blocks are left out. The cleaned copy is not re-encoded, so there is no quality loss — a claim you can verify, because the image data in the two files is identical.

How to check it worked

Drop the cleaned copy back in. The reader that found the GPS block the first time reads the result the same way, and a copy with nothing left to find comes back with no issues found. No step of this leaves your browser.

How to do it

1Open the photoThe metadata blocks are read and listed, on your device.
2See what it carriesEach field comes with a plain sentence on why it matters.
3Download the cleaned copyEXIF, IPTC and XMP removed; the image data untouched.

Questions

No. The metadata sits beside the image data, not inside it, so it can be removed without touching a pixel. JPEGs are not re-compressed — the image data is copied through byte for byte.

We report no issues found, never “safe”. Absence of detections is not proof of absence, and detection is best-effort.