Sanitize Personal Privacy Info from EXIF

Sanitize Personal Privacy Info from EXIF

Local Processing

Wipe GPS coordinates, device serial numbers, owner names, and location histories while keeping essential photo metadata.

How It Works & Processing Standards

Wipe GPS coordinates, device serial numbers, owner names, and location histories while keeping essential photo metadata.

Tool processing runs in your browser. If you create a calculator or conversion share link, its values are included in the URL. See the privacy policy for account, analytics and advertising data.

Current Limits

  • Desktop max file size: 40MB
  • Mobile max file size: 20MB

Choose single or multiple under "Task". Remove your home location before posting to marketplaces or social media. You can keep the color profile so colors do not change.

If there is no metadata, the file is returned unchanged and you are told so.

What You Can Do

Metadata only
Image data is not re-encoded, so there is no quality loss.
Multiple photos
Clean several at once.
Keep color profile
When on, colors stay exactly the same.

How to Use Sanitize Personal Privacy Info from EXIF

  1. 1
    Choose a taskSingle or multiple.
  2. 2
    Pick photosSelect the photos.
  3. 3
    DownloadGet the cleaned photos and what was removed.

Examples

Marketplace photo
Input: A phone photo with GPS
Result: The same-quality photo without location or device info (removed items and bytes shown)

Common Use Cases

  • Removing location before posting to marketplaces or social media
  • Cleaning a batch of photos before sharing

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Does quality drop?

No. Only the metadata sections are cut out; image data is not recompressed.

Are my photos uploaded?

No. Images are processed only inside this browser and never transmitted.

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