BRev View & remove EXIF data — free
See everything a photo is carrying — camera and lens, exposure settings, the exact timestamp, the serial number, and the GPS coordinates of the spot it was taken — then strip it out. Removal is lossless byte surgery, not a canvas re-save: the compressed pixel data is copied verbatim, so the cleaned photo is pixel-for-pixel identical to the original. The file never leaves your device — this page makes no network requests at all.
Drop photos here
or click to choose · JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF · read on your device, never uploaded
Choose photosFileReader and rewritten in memory; no request carries it, and there is no server here to receive it. Open DevTools → Network, drop a photo in, and you will see the page load its own code and one analytics pageview — the same as every page on this site — and nothing else: no upload, no image request. That is the proof worth having. There is no inline map below for the same reason: fetching a single map tile would hand your coordinates to a tile server.What is EXIF data?
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a block of tags every camera writes into the image file itself: make, model, lens, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, orientation, the date and time to the second, and — if location services were on — latitude and longitude. Two more blocks usually travel with it: IPTC, the press/agency fields (caption, byline, credit, copyright), and XMP, Adobe’s XML block, which records editing history and often a second copy of the GPS.
Why does my phone put GPS in my photos?
So your photo library can group by place, show a map of your year, and let you search “beach”. It is a genuinely useful feature, and it is on by default. The problem is only that the coordinates stay in the file when the photo leaves your library — the phone cannot know whether you are printing it or posting it to a stranger.
Which platforms strip metadata on upload?
Facebook, Instagram, X and Twitter, and most large social platforms re-encode uploads and drop EXIF along the way (they keep their own copy first). WhatsApp and Telegram strip it when the image is sent as a photo. But that is not the whole internet: sending a file directly keeps everything — email attachments, WhatsApp/Telegram “send as document/file”, AirDrop, Slack and Discord uploads, Google Drive and Dropbox links, and most forums, marketplaces and WordPress sites. Flickr and SmugMug display EXIF deliberately. The safe assumption is that metadata survives unless you removed it.
Do screenshots or re-saving remove it?
Not reliably. A screenshot drops the original EXIF but adds its own — device, timestamp, sometimes the app — and it costs you the full-resolution image. “Save as” in most editors copies the metadata across to the new file, and cropping or rotating usually preserves it too. Renaming the file changes nothing; the metadata is inside the bytes, not in the name.
Why not just re-save it through a canvas?
That is what most online EXIF removers do, and it does work — by decoding your photo and compressing it again. A JPEG loses a little quality every round trip, colour management is discarded, and the file size changes for no reason you asked for. This tool never touches the pixel data: it walks the JPEG marker segments, PNG chunks or WebP RIFF chunks and copies everything it keeps byte for byte.
The orientation gotcha
One EXIF tag is not metadata about you — it is instructions. Orientation tells the viewer to rotate the image before displaying it, because phone sensors record in one direction and you turned the phone. Strip the whole EXIF block and a portrait photo can appear sideways in some older viewers. Modern browsers and operating systems handle it, and it is a small price for removing your location — but if a cleaned photo suddenly looks rotated, this is why. Rotating it properly (with the image editor, not the metadata) fixes it permanently.
Is the ICC profile safe to keep?
Yes, and you should. An ICC colour profile describes the colour space the image was captured in; it contains no personal information. Remove it and a wide-gamut photo can look washed out or over-saturated on screens that would otherwise have rendered it correctly. That is why it is unticked by default here while everything else is on.
Remove EXIF online, safely
Every other “remove EXIF online” page asks you to upload the photograph you are worried about to a server you cannot inspect — which is a strange way to protect a private image. This one runs entirely in your browser: view EXIF data, see the GPS location a photo is carrying, and strip EXIF, GPS, XMP and IPTC from JPEG, PNG and WebP files without the image ever being transmitted. No account, no watermark, no size limit, no upload.