Remove EXIF And Metadata From Photos Before You Share Them

Every photo from a phone or camera carries a hidden layer of metadata: the make and model of the device, the exact second the shutter fired, the software that last saved it, and very often the GPS coordinates of where you were standing. This tool reads that layer, shows it to you in plain language, and then removes it. Drop a file, look at the row, download the clean copy. That is the whole flow.

Who It Is For

Anyone about to put a photo somewhere it will be downloaded rather than merely viewed. Product shots for a landing page a designer or an AI builder made for you, images for a listing, a photo attached to an email or a support ticket, screenshots that an editor stamped with your username. Most social networks strip EXIF on upload, but a file you host yourself, attach or hand over keeps everything. If you want to remove metadata from a photo before it leaves your hands, this is the place.

How It Works

A JPEG is a series of segments; a PNG is a series of chunks. The picture itself lives in a few of them and the metadata lives in others: EXIF, XMP, IPTC and comments in a JPEG, text and time chunks in a PNG. The tool walks the file once, copies the segments the decoder needs exactly as they are, and leaves out the rest. Nothing is decoded and nothing is re-encoded, which is why the cleaned file has identical quality and is usually a little smaller. EXIF is parsed only far enough to tell you the camera, capture time, orientation, software and GPS position; that summary is what the row shows.

Two things are kept on purpose. The colour profile (ICC) carries no personal information and removing it can shift the colours of a wide-gamut photo, so it stays unless you untick it in Options. The orientation flag is the tag phones use to display a sideways-stored photo upright; dropping it with the rest of EXIF is the classic reason a cleaned photo appears rotated. By default the tool writes back a minimal EXIF block that holds only that one tag. If you would rather have no EXIF at all, turn the option off, and the row offers to fix the rotation by re-encoding instead, clearly labelled as the one action here that does change pixels.

Limits

JPEG and PNG only. HEIC, WebP, TIFF and RAW files are not touched. The tool removes metadata; it does not compress or resize, so if you also want smaller files run the clean copies through the Image Compressorafterwards. It also cannot see anything burned into the pixels, such as a visible timestamp or a street sign. Everything runs on your device, so very large batches are bound by your browser's memory rather than by any upload limit.

Then Put Them Online

Once the photos are clean, Publish builds a simple gallery page from them and puts it on a free OxyPages link with HTTPS in a few seconds, no account needed. The link lasts 30 minutes unless you claim it, and claiming is free; from there you can pick your own address and, on a paid plan, connect a custom domain. Instant publishing accepts up to 5 MB, so the gallery includes photos up to about 4 MB in total and lists the rest by name. See how it works for the full picture.