Photo Metadata Viewer & Remover

How it works

1. Choose or drop one or more images. Each file is scanned locally, independently of the others.
2. Review the privacy summary and expand metadata groups. Select a file to see its preview and format capabilities.
3. Remove privacy metadata while keeping color profiles, or explicitly choose to remove all removable metadata including profiles.
4. RST re-scans the output before enabling a cleaned download. Where original-format removal is unavailable, a supported static image may offer explicit PNG conversion.

A real example

What photo metadata can contain

EXIF can hold camera settings, device information, capture dates and GPS fields. XMP and IPTC can carry descriptions, creator details, copyright and editing information. ICC profiles describe color interpretation and can include descriptive fields of their own. They are shown separately from photo-privacy metadata.

Metadata varies with the file, device and software that created it. A screenshot or a social-media copy may already lack some original tags; this tool checks the file you actually select. Missing tags are not evidence about when, where or how a photograph was made.

Metadata viewing and clean export are separate

The bundled ExifReader metadata parser supports common JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC/HEIF, AVIF, TIFF, GIF and JPEG XL structures. Reading a format does not mean your browser can display it or export a cleaned version. Every file shows its reading, preview and clean-export capabilities; partial scans are identified.

JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF use format-aware removal without recompressing the encoded image data. GIF and supported PNG/WebP animation are retained. Privacy removal strips private blocks and comments, retaining orientation and color/rendering information. Auxiliary JPEG images or HDR application information may be removed; that can change auxiliary rendering even though the primary image data is unchanged.

Other formats can offer an explicit clean PNG conversion if the browser safely decodes a static image. Conversion uses full displayed dimensions, normalizes orientation and re-encodes locally; color profiles, high bit depth and HDR information can change. It is never a silent original-format export. Multi-page TIFF, animated files and JPEG XL are not converted in V1. A HEIC metadata viewer can therefore work even when HEIC preview or clean export is unavailable.

What verification means

Every cleaned copy is parsed again in this browser. Verification checks readable metadata and the targeted container blocks, and original-format removal also checks that encoded image data stayed unchanged. Downloads remain disabled if the check fails.

This is not universal metadata, steganography, malware, authenticity or provenance verification. Default cleaning preserves ICC descriptions and rendering fields. The advanced choice removes color profiles too and can alter color appearance; essential container and orientation fields remain. Removing metadata cannot remove information visibly photographed in the image.

Local processing and practical limits

Files, GPS, metadata and output bytes remain in browser memory. No upload, external metadata API, map, account or photo history is used. Copy actions use your clipboard or a manual-copy fallback. Feedback does not automatically include filenames, coordinates, metadata or images.

Choose up to 20 images, 30 MB each, within a 150 MB batch. Preview and conversion require safely readable dimensions within 50 million pixels and 32,768 pixels per side; larger files may still permit metadata reading. Embedded container metadata is limited to 8 MB, decompressed metadata to 2 MB per block, and long values are visibly truncated. Time-limited background workers keep malformed files from blocking the page. One unreadable file does not stop the others.

Frequently asked questions