Remove GPS location and other EXIF metadata from a photo before sharing it. Check the location tags first, clean up to 20 images on your device, then download copies. No upload or signup.
To read every camera setting and tag without removing anything, use EXIF Viewer.
These small JPGs contain a synthetic colour pattern, with invented camera and author details and dummy GPS coordinates of 0°, 0°. They contain no personal photo or real capture location. Open either file in EXIF Viewer, or download the original and try removing its metadata above.
Download JPG with sample geotags · Download cleaned JPG
For JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF, use Remove metadata alone to keep the compressed picture data unchanged. Orientation is kept so the image stays upright, and Keep colour profile is on by default. Adding Resize, Format or Compress can re-encode the picture.
HEIC and other formats use a different path: Toolkitta decodes the image and saves a new JPG or PNG. This changes the format and can change quality; it does not preserve an iPhone Live Photo’s paired video. Keep the original if you need it.
A photo app can associate a place with its own library entry even when the downloaded file has no GPS tag. Check the actual downloaded copy. A landmark or address visible in the image, its filename, and copies you already shared are outside metadata removal.
A geotag is location information, usually GPS latitude and longitude, stored inside the image file. Some photos also contain camera, date, author and editing details. Not every photo has a location tag. Removing metadata reduces the information carried inside the copy you share; visible details and filenames can still reveal a place.
Yes. A geotag is the GPS location your phone writes into a photo. It is removed together with the other details, and a photo that has one shows Location on its card before you remove it.
Yes. Add up to 20 files, 20 MB each and 100 MB total, then press Remove metadata and download the cleaned copies as a ZIP. Keep only the metadata step if you want JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF image data to stay unchanged.
Download the cleaned copy, then open that file in EXIF Viewer and check for GPS location. Check the downloaded file rather than the original or a photo-library entry. A missing GPS tag does not hide location clues visible in the picture or its filename.
No for JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF: the file is rewritten block by block and the compressed picture data is copied unchanged, so every pixel stays the same and animations keep playing. HEIC, AVIF, TIFF, BMP and other formats cannot be rewritten in the browser, so they are saved again as JPG (quality 90) or PNG, which also carries nothing over.
No. Phones often store photos sideways with a tag that tells apps how to turn them. That one tag is written back on its own, with no other details, so the photo shows upright everywhere.
It tells apps which colour space the picture uses, such as Display P3 on recent iPhones. Keeping it, the default, makes colours look exactly as before. It does not contain your location, the time or your device's serial number. Turn it off for the smallest possible file.
Many large networks strip location from what other people download, but not every site does, and messaging apps that send files as documents, email, cloud links and marketplaces often keep the original. Cleaning the file yourself means you do not have to rely on the site.
Yes. Add Remove Image Metadata to an image workflow or a step-by-step workflow, before or after other steps, and save the workflow for later. Re-encoding may omit camera tags, but unchanged or lossless-compressed results can retain metadata. Keep a dedicated Remove Image Metadata step when tag removal matters.
No. Reading and removing metadata happen in your browser; the photos are never sent to Toolkitta. Keep the tab open until you download your images. Website hosting and performance measurement are described in our Privacy notice.
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