Photo Privacy Cleaner – Remove All Metadata

Remove all metadata from your photos for maximum privacy before sharing online.

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Supports JPEG, PNG, and WEBP.

How to Clean Your Photo Privacy

Audit and wipe all personal data from your images in three steps

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Upload & Audit

Drop in your photos. Instantly see a full breakdown of every personal data field embedded in the image file.

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Review & Decide

See what personal information is stored — location, device, author, timestamps — then choose to strip it all.

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Download Anonymised Image

Download a fully clean copy with zero personal data. Safe for publishing, selling, or sharing publicly.

What Personal Data Lives Inside Your Photos?

More than you expect is stored alongside your image

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Identity Data

Author name, copyright holder, and artist fields — auto-filled from your device's registered username.

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Software Fingerprint

The exact app and version used to create or edit the image, revealing your tools and workflows.

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Creation History

Original capture date, last edit date, and timestamps that create a traceable editing timeline.

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Copyright Notice

Embedded strings that may contain your full legal name, business name, or website URL.

Why Use Our Photo Privacy Cleaner?

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Full Metadata Audit

See every single metadata field in your photo before removing it. Nothing is hidden — complete transparency.

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Never Leaves Your Device

All metadata removal happens in your browser. Your photos are not uploaded anywhere. Zero cloud, zero risk.

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Batch Privacy Cleaning

Clean an entire photo shoot at once. Process dozens of images before publishing, selling, or submitting to stock sites.

Why Photo Privacy Matters Before You Publish

When you share images online, you often share far more than intended. Every JPEG, PNG, or WebP file can carry dozens of invisible data fields — from GPS coordinates to your full legal name, camera serial number, and editing software version. Taken together, this can build a detailed profile of who you are and where you've been.

Who Is Most at Risk?

Journalists, activists, and researchers sharing sensitive photos face the greatest risks — a single GPS tag can expose a source's location. But everyday users are also at risk: selling items online, posting to forums, or contributing to open-source projects can all inadvertently expose your identity and device information to strangers.

Photo Privacy and GDPR

Under GDPR and similar regulations, embedded metadata containing identifiable personal information may constitute personal data. If you're a business or creator publishing photos, stripping this metadata is good privacy practice and may be a legal obligation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — for photos you own. Removing metadata from someone else's copyrighted images without permission may breach copyright law. Only clean metadata from photos you have rights to modify.

No. Your legal copyright exists from the moment you take a photo regardless of metadata. Removing embedded copyright notices just means others won't see your name in the file — your actual rights are unchanged.

GPS location, camera serial number, device model, author name, copyright holder, software used, creation and editing timestamps, and sometimes even the thumbnail of the original uncropped image.

Yes. No photos are ever uploaded or processed on a server. Everything runs locally in your browser. Zero data is collected or stored — making it fully GDPR-friendly by design.

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