Remove EXIF Data From Photos
Every photo a phone takes carries a hidden second file: where you were standing, which camera took it, and the exact second it happened. Post it or send it on, and that travels with the picture. share-pics.com takes it off by default — you do not have to remember to.
Share photos now — no sign-up →How it works
- Add the photo — Drag it in, pick it from your camera roll, or paste it. JPEG and PNG are the formats that carry EXIF, and both are handled.
- Leave the metadata switch alone — Removing it is the default. The toggle exists for the rarer case where you want the capture data kept — a photographer archiving shots, say.
- Take the cleaned copy — Share the link and the person opening it downloads a photo with no location in it. To keep a clean copy for yourself, download it from your own link.
- Or convert instead — The image converter re-encodes the file, which drops EXIF as a side effect and hands you the result straight back. Useful when you want the cleaned file rather than a link.
What is actually in there
EXIF is a block of tags a camera writes into the image file. On a phone that routinely includes GPS latitude and longitude accurate to a few metres, the direction you were facing, the device model and its serial number, the lens, the exposure settings, and a timestamp down to the second.
None of it is visible when you look at the picture. All of it is one right-click away for whoever receives it — and social platforms that strip EXIF on upload do so after it has reached their servers, which is a different thing from it never leaving your hands.
How the stripping works here
JPEG and PNG store metadata in labelled blocks alongside the compressed image data. This removes those blocks and copies the image data through untouched — so the photo is byte-for-byte as sharp as it was, the same size on disk, and simply no longer says where it was taken.
That is deliberately not a re-encode. Re-saving a JPEG to drop its EXIF costs quality every time, and on a 100 MB file it costs time as well. The one tag kept is orientation, because that is geometry rather than metadata: drop it and every portrait photo arrives on its side.
The formats it does not cover
WebP, AVIF, GIF and video files pass through as they are. The exposure that matters in practice is phone cameras, and phones shoot JPEG and HEIC — the other formats are overwhelmingly screenshots and exports, which carry no location to begin with.
HEIC is a special case: it is decoded to JPEG when you upload it, and that re-encode leaves the metadata behind on its own.
Common questions
- Does removing EXIF change how the photo looks?
- No. For JPEG and PNG the compressed image data is copied through untouched — only the metadata blocks are dropped. The picture is identical, pixel for pixel.
- Can I get the cleaned file back rather than a link?
- Yes, two ways. Download it from your own share link, or run it through the image converter, which re-encodes the file and returns it to you directly.
- Does it remove GPS location?
- Yes — latitude, longitude and orientation all live in EXIF and all come off, along with the camera model, serial number and capture time.
- Which formats are covered?
- JPEG and PNG have their metadata stripped. HEIC is converted to JPEG on upload, which drops it too. WebP, AVIF, GIF and video are passed through unchanged.
- Do I need an account?
- No. No sign-up, no email address, and nothing to install.
- Can I keep the metadata if I want it?
- Yes. There is a switch on the upload form; turn it off and the file is stored exactly as you sent it.