Remove metadata from photos
Take the location and other personal details out of your photos before you share them. The images aren’t recompressed, so they look exactly as before.
Images are read on this device and never uploaded, so it’s safe to check private photos.
How it works
Image files keep their metadata in separate blocks next to the picture. The cleaner copies the file without those blocks, or with the chosen details taken out of them. The picture data is copied byte for byte, so there’s no quality loss, unlike tools that re-save the image.
It keeps what affects how the image looks: the orientation, so photos aren’t shown sideways, and the color profile, so colors don’t shift. Each result lists what was removed and what was kept, read back from the cleaned file.
It also removes embedded thumbnails, which can show what was cropped out, and data some phones append after the image, such as the video of a motion photo. In HEIC files, the metadata is overwritten in place and the thumbnail is kept.
Content Credentials
Some images carry Content Credentials: a signed record of who made them and how. Removing everything removes them too, and the cleaner warns you. If you keep them while removing other metadata, they stay in the file but no longer match it, because they include a fingerprint of the whole file.
Each image also gets a full report of what it contains, so you can see what the clean copy leaves out. More about it in how to remove the location from a photo.