About EXIF data and removing it
Every photo your phone or camera takes carries a hidden block of data called EXIF. It records the camera make and model, the exact date and time, camera settings, and often the GPS coordinates of where the shot was taken. You never see it, but it travels with the file. This tool reads that data so you can see it, and lets you download a clean copy with all of it stripped out. Everything happens in your browser, so the photo is never uploaded.
Why you might want to remove it
The privacy concern is location. If a photo has GPS EXIF, anyone you send it to can read the exact spot it was taken, down to a few meters. Post a picture from home, and the coordinates of your house can ride along with it. This tool flags when a photo contains GPS data and shows the coordinates it found, so you know before you share.
Removing EXIF is also just tidy. It drops the file size a little and stops camera and software details from leaking into documents or listings where they do not belong.
How the removal works
The clean copy is made by drawing the image onto a fresh canvas and re-encoding it. A canvas only holds pixels, not metadata, so the new file comes out with the EXIF gone: no camera, no timestamp, no GPS. The picture looks identical; only the hidden data is missing.
A note on what shows up
EXIF lives mainly in JPEG files straight from a camera or phone. Screenshots, most PNGs, and images that have already been through a social app usually have little or no EXIF, because many platforms strip it on upload. So if this tool reports no metadata, that is normal and often a good sign. The removal step still works on any image, giving you a clean re-encoded copy either way.
For a closer look at the tags photos can reveal and the safest ways to remove them, read what EXIF data is.