EXIF & Photo Metadata Eraser (100% Local)

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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.

Local Canvas Processing

Our EXIF Eraser uses the browser's native HTML5 <canvas> API to redraw visible pixels and export a new image without the original EXIF metadata. The image is processed in your browser and is not uploaded to JW Tool Box. The site separately collects usage information as described in the Privacy Policy.

The resulting ZIP contains new images without the original EXIF metadata. Check the exported files before sharing if you need to remove information drawn visibly into the image, such as a name badge or address.

How to Strip EXIF Data From Photos Before You Share Them

Add JPEG, PNG or WebP files, up to 50 per batch, then export. Every image is decoded, redrawn onto a canvas and encoded again, which means GPS coordinates, camera model, lens, capture timestamp and software tags never reach the new file. The originals on your disk are left untouched.

Format handling is worth knowing before you run a batch. PNG and WebP keep their own format, while the JPEG path is written back as JPEG at a quality of 0.95. Output names follow the input names with a suffix, so IMG_4821.jpg becomes IMG_4821-cleaned.jpg, and the whole batch arrives as cleaned-images-<timestamp>.zip.

Worked example. A 4032 by 3024 pixel phone photo exported with GPS coordinates, the camera model and a capture time carries several kilobytes of metadata, and its EXIF orientation tag is the reason a viewer knows to turn the shot upright. After one pass here the file is still 4032 by 3024, still opens the same way, and contains none of those tags. Orientation is the case that surprises people: the browser applies that tag while decoding, so the rotation is baked into the pixels of the redrawn image, and the photo keeps looking correct even in a viewer that ignores EXIF completely.

What the tool does not do matters just as much. It cannot remove data that is part of the picture itself, such as a street sign, a name badge, a reflection in a window or text burned into a screenshot. It does not process HEIC files, so convert those first. And since the JPEG path re-encodes at 0.95, the image is compressed once more, which is why the untouched original should be kept somewhere else: repeated passes through any lossy encoder slowly degrade a photo.

For the wider picture, the guide to removing EXIF data from photos explains which tags leak location. If the goal is a smaller file rather than a cleaner one, the image compressor does that job, and the article on compressing images locally covers the settings worth trying.

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: Photos are sanitized in your browser and are not uploaded to JW Tool Box. The site separately collects usage information as described in the Privacy Policy.
• 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

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