EXIF Viewer & Remover
See what a JPEG or PNG reveals — camera, exposure, date, GPS position, software — and save a copy with the metadata removed losslessly, without uploading.
The Exif, XMP, IPTC and comment data found, the GPS position in decimal degrees, which segments would be removed and how many bytes, and a stripped copy with the pixels untouched.
Example: A phone photo shows Acme X100, 1/250 s, f/2.8, ISO 400, 50 mm, taken 2026-09-22 at 48.858267, 2.2945 — 3 KB of Exif, XMP and a comment removed, the ICC profile kept, the JPEG data byte-identical.
Read from the bytes,
removed from the bytes.
What is read, how the metadata is removed without touching the picture, and what stays.
Reading
A JPEG is a sequence of segments; the APP1 segment holding "Exif" contains a TIFF structure with IFD0 (camera, software, orientation), an Exif sub-IFD (exposure, ISO, focal length, dates, lens) and a GPS sub-IFD (latitude, longitude, altitude as degree-minute-second rationals, converted here to decimal). XMP (another APP1), IPTC (APP13), the ICC profile (APP2) and comments (COM) are detected too. A PNG stores the same things in eXIf, tEXt / iTXt / zTXt and tIME chunks. Nothing is decoded — the pixel data is never looked at.
Removing
The stripped copy is assembled from the segments or chunks that are kept — headers, tables and the compressed image data — copied byte for byte; the metadata segments are simply left out. That makes the removal lossless: the picture is not re-encoded and its quality cannot change. The ICC colour profile is kept by default because removing it can alter how the colours are displayed; switch it to remove.
What to know
Removing the orientation tag does not rotate the pixels: a photo stored sideways with orientation 6 will show sideways afterwards — rotate it first if that matters. Maker notes and embedded thumbnails live inside the Exif block and go with it. WebP, HEIC and TIFF are not handled here. Nothing leaves the browser; the same four anonymous usage counts as the rest of the site apply.
SOURCES
- JPEG APP1 Exif per Exif 2.32 (TIFF 6 IFD0, Exif and GPS IFDs), APP1 XMP, APP13 IPTC, APP2 ICC, COM; PNG eXIf, tEXt / iTXt / zTXt, tIME chunks; segments removed at byte level, image data copied
Last reviewed 22 September 2026. How results are checked: How we verify.