Take the location out of a photo before it leaves your device

Before a photo leaves your device, open Remove EXIF. The place, the time, and the camera model can sit inside the file, and you will not see them by looking at the picture.

The picture is not the whole file

A photo can carry more than the picture. Anyone who receives the file can read what the camera wrote. That matters when the place is your home.

If you upload the photo, that hidden information goes with the file. The place you send it to receives what you sent. Strip the camera notes first if you do not want them to travel.

It stays on this device

Remove EXIF does that on your machine. The photo stays put. The privacy page states the same rule. Nothing is uploaded.

Drop a photo and the page highlights the GPS and device fields before you strip them. You can see the risk instead of hoping it was empty. Keep orientation upright stays on, so a sideways photo does not land on its side just because the camera notes are gone.

What you save it as

Export format is the choice of the file you leave with. It is not a separate Save as button. It is the control on the page.

• Original keeps the source container when the strip allows. A JPEG can lose the camera notes without being rebuilt into a different kind of file. Upright JPEGs use a metadata-only path, so the picture itself is not squeezed again.
• JPEG, PNG, and WebP make a new file of that type. Those re-encode after the strip. Use one of them when the place you are sending the photo asked for that format.
• Rotation tags may re-encode once at high quality. That is the honest case, and the page says so.

The download is a new file. The photo you started with is still on the device, camera notes and all. If you stripped the wrong one, the original is still there. That is the advantage of not overwriting it.

It does not change what the picture shows. A street sign, a house number, or a school in the frame is still in the frame.

What to do next

JPG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC can go through. HEIC works when the browser can read it. If it cannot, convert with HEIC to JPG first, then come back. Those bytes stay on the device.

Shrinking the photo is a different job. Use Compress Image when the file is too heavy, and do that after the strip if you care about the location, or before if you only care about size. A mark on the picture is Add Watermark. A watermark does not remove the location either.

How to

1. Open Remove EXIF. Drop the photos. JPG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC are accepted, and several at once is fine.
2. Read the highlighted GPS and device fields before you strip anything.
3. Leave Keep orientation upright on unless you have a reason to turn it off.
4. Pick the export format. Original, JPEG, PNG, or WebP.
5. Press Strip all EXIF and download the new file. The original photo is still on the device.