Remove Location & Hidden Data from Photos
See and remove the hidden GPS location and camera details stored in your photos. Free and private.
In plain words: Photos often secretly store where and when they were taken and which phone took them. This shows you that hidden information and saves a clean copy without it. Handy before posting on Facebook Marketplace, eBay or Vinted.
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How to Use Remove Location & Hidden Data from Photos
- Drop a photo (JPG, PNG or WebP) onto the tool, or load the sample, to see the hidden EXIF and GPS tags it contains.
- Check the privacy warning: if the photo has GPS coordinates you will see the latitude and longitude, with a link to view the spot on OpenStreetMap.
- Download the clean copy. It has the EXIF, GPS location and camera data removed, so it is safer to post on eBay, Vinted, Reddit or social media.
Why Removing Photo Metadata Protects Your Privacy
When you take a photo on a phone or digital camera, the device usually saves extra information inside the file, called EXIF. It can include the GPS location where the photo was taken, the date and time, and the make, model and software version of your phone or camera.
If you upload the original file to a classified site, forum or shared link, anyone who downloads it may be able to read those tags. WeShoal's EXIF Viewer & Stripper shows you the tags in your browser and then makes a clean copy by re-encoding the image, which leaves the EXIF, GPS and camera data behind. The image is redrawn and saved as a fresh JPG (95% quality), so colours are converted to standard sRGB.
| Metadata | What it can reveal | In the clean copy? |
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| GPS location | Where the photo was taken, such as your home | Removed |
| Camera and lens details | Phone or camera make, model and software | Removed |
| Date and time taken | When the photo was captured | Removed |
| Colour profile (ICC) | How colours should be displayed (not personal) | Converted to standard sRGB |
Because the clean copy is re-encoded, JPG photos are saved again at high quality (95%). PNG stays lossless and WebP stays WebP. Other formats are saved as JPG.