EXIF & Photo Metadata Eraser (100% Local)
Strip geolocation and camera data from your images locally. Protect your privacy before uploading.
Instantly strip GPS, camera info, and sensitive metadata from photos before sharing online. Runs entirely in your browser.
When you take a photo with your smartphone, it silently attaches hidden metadata (EXIF) including the precise GPS coordinates, time, and camera model. Uploading these original photos to social media or classifieds can leak your home address. The EXIF Eraser Tool uses your browser's native canvas engine to physically repaint the image pixels locally, destroying all hidden tracking data in milliseconds. Because nothing is ever uploaded to a server, it is the only zero-trust way to sanitize sensitive images like driver's licenses or family photos.
How this page is maintained
- Steps and copy are checked against the current tool behavior.
- Browser limits, file-size constraints, or compatibility gaps are documented when relevant.
- Unless a page explicitly says otherwise, files and text stay in the browser during processing.
The Invisible Footprint
Every time you press the shutter on your iPhone or DSLR, your camera embeds a digital footprint directly into the file. This EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data goes far beyond resolution. It often records the exact GPS latitude and longitude, the date and time, the altitude, and even the unique serial number of your lens. While this is fantastic for organizing personal albums on a map, it becomes a severe privacy vector the moment you upload that original file to a marketplace, a forum, or send it to a stranger.
Why You Shouldn't Use Cloud "Erasers"
If you search for "remove EXIF data online," you will find dozens of tools that request you to upload your image to their server. This fundamentally defeats the purpose. You are attempting to protect your privacy by handing over high-resolution, GPS-tagged original photos to an anonymous third-party server.
The Local Canvas Scrubbing Protocol
Our EXIF Eraser operates on a zero-trust model. When you drag photos into the tool, we don't just attempt to edit the metadata tags (which can sometimes leave residual thumbnails or nested tags). Instead, we utilize the browser's native HTML5 <canvas> API. We render the visible pixels onto a completely blank, virtual canvas in your local RAM, and then ask the browser to export only those fresh pixels into a brand-new file.
This process acts as a digital airgap. The resulting zip file contains mathematically new images that are completely divorced from their original metadata history, ensuring maximum privacy before you share them on the open internet.
Key features
- Pixel-level rewrite: Instead of just editing the header tags, we draw your image onto a blank HTML5 canvas and re-export the raw pixels, guaranteeing 100% metadata destruction.
- Zero-server architecture: Your photos never leave your device. The sanitization happens instantly in your local RAM.
- Batch ZIP export: Drop dozens of Apple HEIC or standard JPG/PNG photos at once, and download a single zipped folder of clean, safe images ready for sharing.
Frequently asked questions
Does this reduce image quality?
For JPEGs, we re-export at a very high 95% quality setting to maintain visual fidelity while occasionally shrinking the file size. PNGs are exported losslessly.
Is it safe to use for IDs and medical documents?
Yes. It is explicitly designed for this. Since processing happens solely via WebAssembly/Canvas inside your local browser, no third party ever sees your documents.
What formats are supported?
It supports any image your browser can render, primarily JPG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC on supported devices.
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