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Remove Metadata From Photos
Strip the hidden data out of a photo and download a clean copy, without re-encoding a single pixel. Drop a file, see what it is carrying, and remove the EXIF, GPS, XMP and IPTC in one click. Nothing is uploaded, so a photo with your location in it never leaves your device.
Here is the difference that makes imgi worth using as an EXIF remover: it does not re-encode your image. Almost every other tool that claims to remove metadata redraws the photo onto a canvas and re-saves it, quietly re-compressing your picture and losing quality each time. imgi removes the metadata segments at the byte level and passes the image data through untouched, so the cleaned file is identical to the original, just without the hidden information.
You stay in control of what goes. The colour profile is kept by default so your colours do not shift, with an option to remove it too if you want a completely bare file. JPEG, PNG and WebP are cleaned without re-encoding. Formats that cannot be stripped that way in a browser are shown as view only instead of being silently re-saved, because a privacy tool that damages your photo is not worth trusting.
Want to inspect first, or answer a specific question? See the full EXIF and metadata viewer, or find out where a photo was taken from its GPS data before you clear it.
Common questions
01Does removing EXIF data reduce image quality?+
Not with imgi. This is the difference that matters. Most tools that remove metadata redraw the photo onto a canvas and export it again, which re-compresses the pixels and throws away quality every time. imgi does not touch the image data at all. It removes the EXIF, GPS, XMP and IPTC segments at the byte level and copies the picture through untouched, so the cleaned file is pixel for pixel identical to the original. Drop the result back in and you will see the metadata is gone and the image is unchanged.
02What metadata gets removed?+
The tool strips the EXIF block (camera, lens, exposure, dates), GPS location, XMP (edit history and app data), IPTC (captions, copyright) and any embedded comments. For JPEG that means the Exif, XMP, IPTC and comment segments; for PNG the text and EXIF chunks; for WebP the EXIF and XMP chunks. The image data, and by default the colour profile, are left in place.
03Why remove metadata from a photo?+
Privacy, mostly. A photo straight off a phone can contain the exact GPS coordinates of where it was taken, the device serial, and a precise timestamp. Sharing it as a file, rather than through a platform that strips this, hands all of that to whoever receives it. Photographers also remove metadata to keep camera settings or client details private before sending proofs.
04Does it keep the colour profile?+
Yes, by default. The ICC colour profile controls how colours are displayed, so removing it can make an image look washed out or over-saturated on some screens. imgi keeps it unless you tick the option to remove it too, which is there for people who specifically want a completely bare file.
05Is my photo uploaded to clean it?+
No. The cleaning happens entirely in your browser. No image bytes are sent anywhere, so a photo with sensitive location data never has to leave your device to be cleaned. You can confirm it yourself by watching the network tab while you use the tool: nothing carrying your image goes out.
06Which formats can be cleaned?+
JPEG, PNG and WebP can be cleaned without re-encoding, because their metadata lives in segments that can be removed byte for byte. HEIC and some other formats cannot be stripped that way in a browser without re-saving the whole image, so imgi shows those as view only rather than quietly re-encoding and degrading your photo. To clean a HEIC file, export it to JPEG first.