Strip GPS location, camera details, and all hidden data from your photos — right in your browser. The pixel content stays identical.
Your files never leave this deviceJPEG, PNG, WebP · up to 10 at once · 50 MB each
Modern smartphones embed far more than you might expect. Here's what anyone with the right tool can read from an unstripped image.
Your exact latitude and longitude — often precise enough to identify your home address or place of work.
The exact timestamp the photo was taken — which, combined with GPS, can reveal your routines and travel patterns.
The brand and model of your phone or camera — which can identify the device and sometimes correlate across photos.
The app used to edit or shoot the photo, plus the operating system version — useful for fingerprinting a device.
Aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, and flash mode — the full technical fingerprint of the shot.
A tiny copy of the original, unedited image is often stored inside the file — even if you cropped or filtered the photo before sharing.
Most people are unaware their photos carry this data. Here are the groups most at risk.
Listing on eBay, Etsy, or Facebook Marketplace? Photos taken at home embed your address. Strip the metadata before you post.
Sharing images of sensitive subjects or locations? GPS data can betray sources and put people at risk. Remove it first.
Platforms may strip metadata when you upload, but the original file you share directly — via DM, email, or link — often passes EXIF through intact.
WhatsApp, iMessage, and email attachments frequently preserve EXIF. If you're sending original photos, assume the metadata goes with them.
Four steps, a few seconds, zero uploads.
Drag photos onto the box above, or click Browse. JPEG, PNG, and WebP are all accepted. Up to 10 at once.
Latch reads the EXIF data present in each file — GPS coordinates, camera make and model, date taken, software, and more.
The browser re-encodes the image through its Canvas API, which only copies pixel data — all EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata is discarded automatically.
Save your metadata-free photo. Your original file on your device is completely untouched.
Every photo taken on a smartphone contains precise GPS coordinates showing exactly where the shot was taken. Share that photo publicly — on social media, a forum, a property listing, or via email — and anyone who inspects the file can extract your home address, workplace, or travel route.
Beyond GPS, EXIF data includes the camera make and model (which can identify the device), the date and time, lens settings, and sometimes even a serial number. Stripping it before sharing is a simple habit with a meaningful privacy benefit.
Common use cases: posting photos to public forums or social media, sending images to people you don't fully trust, submitting photos for competitions or publications, listing a property for sale, or simply keeping your metadata your own business.
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is metadata embedded in photo files by cameras and phones. It can include GPS coordinates, the camera make and model, lens settings, date and time, and sometimes even the device's serial number.
For JPEG photos the tool re-encodes at 99% quality, which is visually identical to the original. PNG images are re-encoded losslessly. The pixel content is unchanged in both cases.
No. Everything happens in your browser using the Canvas API. Your photos never leave your device — which is rather fitting for a privacy tool.
All of it. The Canvas API re-encodes only pixel data, discarding all EXIF fields (GPS, camera info, dates, lens settings), IPTC metadata (captions, keywords, copyright), and XMP metadata (editing history, colour profiles).
Photos taken on a smartphone contain precise GPS coordinates of where they were shot. Sharing a photo publicly — on social media, a forum, or via email — can inadvertently reveal your home address, workplace, or travel habits to anyone who inspects the file metadata.
Yes — if the original file has GPS metadata embedded. When a photo is taken on a smartphone with location services enabled, the precise coordinates are stored in the EXIF data. Anyone who receives that file can extract the coordinates using free tools and resolve them to a street address. Most people share photos without ever knowing this data is there.
Most major platforms — Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X — strip EXIF when photos are uploaded to their servers. But this doesn't help when you share the original file directly: messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage often pass EXIF through intact, and email attachments always preserve it. Stripping before sharing is the only reliable approach.
A screenshot does remove all original EXIF (since it creates a new image file) but it also reduces quality significantly, often adding compression artefacts and losing fine detail. This tool re-encodes the image at 99% quality for JPEG and losslessly for PNG, so the result is indistinguishable from the original — just without the metadata.
This tool accepts JPEG, PNG, and WebP. iPhone photos in HEIC format need to be converted first — use our HEIC to JPG converter to get a JPEG, then strip the metadata here. Both steps happen entirely in your browser.
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