How do I remove metadata from a photo?
Upload your image, review what it reveals, then click Erase everything to download a clean copy. It works the same to delete metadata, clear EXIF data or erase only the fields you choose. No software to install, no account, free.
What metadata gets removed?
The full strip produces a copy of your photo with an empty metadata layer. That includes:
- GPS location : latitude, longitude, altitude and direction.
- Device identifiers : camera make, model, serial number and owner name.
- Dates and times : when the photo was taken, digitised and edited.
- Software traces : editing tools, versions and creator applications.
- Embedded thumbnails and previews : small copies of the image that can survive edits.
- AI fingerprints : C2PA Content Credentials, Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI parameters.
Does removing EXIF data reduce image quality?
No. Unlike converters that re-encode the picture, Pixvisor rewrites only the metadata. There is no recompression: the pixels stay identical, and the ICC colour profile and orientation flag are preserved, so colours and rotation don't change after cleaning.
How do I delete metadata from many photos at once?
To remove EXIF data in bulk, the main tool has a Batch mode: select multiple images, clear their metadata in one action and download everything as a single ZIP archive.
What's the difference between EXIF, IPTC and XMP?
EXIF is written by cameras and phones (settings, dates, GPS); IPTC is the press/agency layer (captions, credits); XMP is Adobe's extensible layer that can mirror both and carry AI provenance. This remover clears all three at once.
Related tools
Want to see what a photo contains first? Open the EXIF & metadata viewer. Need to change fields instead of removing them? Use the metadata editor. Wondering whether an image was made by AI? Run it through the AI image checker.
What we keep on purpose
Erasing everything does not mean erasing two things, and the exceptions are deliberate. The ICC colour profile stays, because removing it makes colours shift on screens that manage colour. The orientation flag stays, because removing it makes portrait photos display sideways. Neither identifies you, and stripping them breaks the image for no privacy gain.
The pixels are never re-encoded either. Metadata sits in its own section of the file, so it can be rewritten without touching the image, which means no quality loss and no colour shift. A tool that re-saves the photo to clean it is quietly costing you quality, and it is worth checking whether the one you use does. The built-in methods on Windows, macOS and phones each stop at a different point, compared side by side in how to remove metadata from a photo.