Remove EXIF data from photos

Every photo taken on a smartphone contains hidden metadata called EXIF data. This includes your exact GPS coordinates, device model, camera settings, and the precise date and time the photo was taken. When you share photos online, this metadata goes with them — and anyone with basic tools can extract it.

MiniPx removes that metadata without re-encoding the picture. In a JPEG, PNG or WebP the metadata lives in its own labelled segments beside the compressed image data, so those segments can simply be cut out while the image data is copied across byte for byte. The file you get back contains zero location data, zero device information and zero timestamps — and pixels identical to the ones you started with. It gets smaller by exactly the size of the metadata that was in it, and by nothing else.

HEIC, AVIF, TIFF, GIF, BMP and camera RAW work differently: their metadata is woven into the file structure, and removing it means rebuilding the whole file — a re-encode, with the quality loss that implies. MiniPx refuses those here rather than doing it quietly. Convert them to JPEG or PNG first, then strip.

This is especially important when posting photos on forums, selling items on marketplaces like OLX or Facebook Marketplace, or sharing images with strangers. Your home location, workplace, and daily movement patterns can be extracted from photo metadata by anyone with basic tools like an online EXIF viewer. Metadata is only half the leak, though — the pixels themselves may show a house number, a licence plate, or a parcel label, and for those the fix is visual: pixelate the region before posting, then strip the EXIF too. And when the detail is a person rather than a number — a bystander's face, a child in the background — blur the face instead: the metadata and the pixels both talk, and a photo is only clean when both are silent.

Social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook strip EXIF data when you upload, but many other platforms do not — including WhatsApp (when sending as document), email attachments, cloud storage links, and forum uploads. Always strip metadata before sharing through these channels. And when the image is a photographed document whose wording is the thing the recipient needs, consider skipping the image entirely: extract the text with on-device OCR and share plain text, which carries no EXIF because it carries no image.

Unlike server-based EXIF removers that upload your photos to process them, MiniPx runs entirely in your browser. Your photos never leave your device — the most private way to strip metadata. You can verify this by using MiniPx in airplane mode.

For what those fields actually contain — EXIF versus IPTC versus XMP, and which are worth keeping — see what image metadata is.