Remove Image Metadata

How Remove Image Metadata works

Remove EXIF, GPS and camera data by re-encoding the image. The picture is redrawn on a canvas, which drops every metadata block before download. Everything happens inside this page: the tool reads your input, runs the calculation or conversion locally, and hands the result back to you. Nothing is transmitted, because there is no backend to transmit it to.

That design choice is deliberate. Most free tool sites upload your files to a server, process them there, and quietly keep a copy. Toolcin cannot do that — the site is a set of static files. If your connection dropped the moment the page finished loading, every tool would still work.

Why re-encoding removes data

EXIF, GPS coordinates, camera model, shooting date and software tags live in metadata blocks outside the pixel data. When the image is drawn to a canvas and re-encoded, only pixels are copied — every metadata block is left behind.

That is why this works without special libraries: the metadata is not stripped, it is simply never written to the new file.

What you lose along with it

Orientation, which is stored in EXIF. A photo taken in portrait may rely on that flag, so after stripping it can appear rotated. If that happens, rotate it explicitly with the rotate tool afterwards.

Colour profile information can also be dropped, which shifts colours slightly on wide-gamut images.

When this matters legally

Publishing a photo with GPS data can disclose a home address; that is the most common reason to strip metadata. Some jurisdictions also treat embedded authorship as personal data, so removing it is part of a data-minimisation policy.

Keep the original somewhere if you may need to prove authorship later — that is what the metadata was for.

Good to know

• Works offline once loaded, including on flights and in locked-down networks.
• No file size limit beyond your device's own memory.
• Free to use, with no account and no usage counter.
• Results are produced locally, so they are not logged or shared with anyone.

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