Photo Scrub

EXIF remover

Strip EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, comments and embedded thumbnails from photos, losslessly. It runs in your browser, so files never leave your device.

Cleaned on your device. Your photos are never uploaded.

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How it works

  1. Choose one or more JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC files.
  2. Review what's in them, with a block-by-block list under Technical details.
  3. Download the stripped files.

Questions

Is it lossless?

Yes for JPEG, PNG and WebP. The compressed image data is copied unchanged and only the metadata segments and chunks are dropped, so nothing is re-encoded. HEIC is decoded by the browser and saved as a JPEG at quality 92.

What's kept?

The ICC colour profile, and the orientation, rewritten as a minimal EXIF block holding only that tag (so the photo isn't shown sideways). In JPEGs the JFIF header and Adobe colour-transform marker are kept too; any JFIF thumbnail is dropped.

What's removed?

JPEG: EXIF (APP1, including the IFD1 thumbnail and GPS IFD), XMP, extended XMP, IPTC/Photoshop (APP13), MPF and other APPn segments, comments, and anything after the end-of-image marker (such as gain maps). PNG: tEXt, zTXt, iTXt, eXIf, tIME and unknown ancillary chunks. WebP: EXIF, XMP and unknown chunks, with the VP8X flags updated.

How do I know it worked?

Each cleaned copy is read back before you can download it. If anything identifying is still found, Photo Scrub won't offer the file.

Are my photos uploaded?

No. Photo Scrub runs entirely in your browser, so your photos never leave your device. Nothing is sent to a server or stored. The only thing that ever loads from elsewhere is the map, and only if you tap Show on map.