Remove photo location data without uploading
Phone photos quietly carry the GPS coordinates of where they were taken, the device name and the exact time. This strips that information and leaves every pixel exactly as it was.
๐ Your photos never leave your deviceIf faces or number plates also need hiding, use Blur / redact. To make files smaller as well, Compress image drops the location while it shrinks them.
What one photo gives away
When a phone saves a picture it attaches an EXIF block: latitude and longitude accurate to a few metres, the phone model, and the date and time to the second. A listing photo for a second-hand sale taken in your living room, a picture of your kids, a snap of your new flat โ sent as an original file, any of them can lead a stranger to your front door. Some social networks strip this on upload, but email attachments, cloud share links, "send original" in messengers, forums and many blogs pass it straight through. Clean the file once before it leaves your hands and it no longer matters where it goes.
Why the quality does not change
Most metadata removers redraw the image and save it again. That does drop the metadata, but it also re-compresses the JPG, so every pass costs a little quality. This page instead cuts out only the blocks that hold metadata and copies the image data across byte for byte. The file shrinks by exactly the size of what was removed, and a pixel-by-pixel comparison with the original comes out identical. The colour profile (ICC) is kept, because removing it can shift colours and it says nothing about where you were.
Frequently asked questions
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. Everything happens inside your browser and the files never leave your device. Load the page, switch off the internet, and it still works. Uploading a photo that contains your location to someone's server in order to remove that location would defeat the purpose.
What exactly gets removed?
The whole EXIF block โ GPS position, device make and model, date taken, camera settings, editing software and the embedded thumbnail โ plus XMP and IPTC data, comments, and any extra data appended after the end of the image. For each photo the page shows what it found before removing it.
How can I check that it worked?
Drop the saved photo back onto this page. If it says "Nothing to remove", it is clean. On Windows you can also right-click the file โ Properties โ Details and confirm that the GPS section is gone.
Don't apps like WhatsApp remove location anyway?
Ordinary photo messages are usually re-compressed, which drops most metadata. But sending a photo "as a document" or "in original quality" can deliver the file untouched, and each service handles this differently and changes over time. Removing it yourself before sending is the only way to be sure.
Can I stop my phone adding location in the first place?
Yes. On an iPhone go to Settings โ Privacy & Security โ Location Services โ Camera and choose "Never". On Android, open the Camera app's settings and turn off "Location tags" (the wording varies by brand). Photos you have already taken still carry it, so clean those here.
Does it work with iPhone HEIC photos?
Not yet โ JPG, PNG and WebP only. iPhones usually convert photos to JPG when you share them, so use that JPG. Choosing "Most Compatible" under Settings โ Camera โ Formats makes the phone shoot JPG from the start.
Why keep the orientation flag?
Phones often store a portrait photo as a landscape image plus a note saying "rotate this 90ยฐ". Remove that note and the photo appears on its side. The note reveals nothing about place or device, so it is kept by default; untick the box to remove it too.