What is the EXIF Remover Tool?
FPE Photo Metadata Remover is a secure, free online utility designed to protect your digital privacy. When you take a photo with a smartphone, it automatically stores hidden EXIF data, often including your exact GPS location and device details.
⚠️ Critical Privacy Warning: Before posting photos to Instagram, WeChat, X.com, Pinterest, Facebook, or Blogs, you must remove this hidden data. There have been serious real-world incidents where individuals were tracked down and harmed by malicious actors who extracted GPS coordinates from shared photos.
Don't take that risk. Our tool allows you to wipe all metadata instantly. With support for Free Batch Processing and a simple "One-Click Clear" feature, you can scrub unlimited photos to ensure your location and personal information remain completely private before you share.
Why should I remove photo metadata?
- Protect Location Privacy: Most modern photos contain precise GPS coordinates. If you share a photo of your home or children online, you might inadvertently reveal your exact address. Using this tool to remove GPS tags prevents location tracking.
- Safe Social Sharing: While some social platforms strip metadata, many messaging apps, email services, and forums do not. Scrubbing your files before sending them ensures total control over your data.
- Professional Anonymity: Journalists, whistleblowers, and security professionals use metadata removal to protect sources and ensure that digital files cannot be traced back to a specific device or time.
- Reduce File Size: Extensive metadata (including thumbnails and proprietary maker notes) adds weight to your files. Cleaning this data can slightly reduce file sizes for faster web loading.
Supported Data Types
Our cleaner works on JPG, PNG, TIFF, and converts HEIC to JPG automatically. We remove:
- GPS Coordinates: Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, and Timestamp.
- Camera Settings: Shutter speed, ISO, Aperture, Focal length.
- Device Info: Camera model, Lens serial number, Software version.
- Personal Tags: Author names, Copyright info, and User comments.
How to use:
- Upload: Drag and drop your photos into the tool area. We support batch processing for multiple files.
- Review: (Optional) Scroll through the sidebar to see what hidden data currently exists in your file.
- Clean: Click the "Remove All Metadata" button to strip everything, or manually delete specific fields like GPS.
- Download: Save your newly "cleaned" images to your device.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does removing metadata lower image quality? No. We only modify the text headers of the file. The visual image data (pixels) remains 100% untouched.
- Can I recover metadata after removing it? No. Once the file is saved and downloaded, the metadata is permanently erased. We recommend keeping a backup of the original if you need the data later.