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The image pixels are copied byte for byte.","Remove EXIF Data from Photos","Remove hidden location, camera and date information from photos before you share them. Choose what to remove; the picture itself is left untouched.",{"title":29,"steps":30},"How to remove EXIF metadata",[31,34,37],{"title":32,"body":33},"Add your photos","Select JPG, PNG or WebP images, one or a batch.",{"title":35,"body":36},"Choose what to remove","Location and camera details are selected by default. Add timestamps if you want dates removed too.",{"title":38,"body":39},"Clean and download","Each cleaned image is saved with -clean in its name. The result lists which kinds of metadata were found.",[41,47],{"title":42,"list":43},"Exactly what each option removes",[44,45,46],"Location: the entire GPS section of the EXIF data, including coordinates, altitude and GPS time, plus GPS properties in a standard XMP packet.","Camera details: make, model, lens make, lens model and lens specification, body and lens serial numbers, camera owner name, the software and host computer that wrote the file, and the manufacturer's maker note.","Timestamps: the date and time the photo was taken, digitised and modified, their time-zone offsets and sub-second values, and the GPS date and time. In PNG files the modification time and Creation Time text are removed as well.",{"title":48,"paragraphs":49},"What is deliberately kept",[50,51],"Orientation, resolution, colour space, colour profile and exposure settings stay, because they affect how the photo is displayed rather than who took it or where. Metadata the tool does not classify, such as IPTC captions and copyright fields or other PNG text, is passed through unchanged.","Nothing is decoded or re-encoded. The compressed image data is copied from your file byte for byte, so quality, dimensions and file format are exactly the same, and only the metadata blocks are rewritten.",[53,56,59,62,65,68],{"question":54,"answer":55},"Does removing EXIF data change the image pixels?","No. The JPEG scan data, WebP image chunks and PNG image data are copied without being decoded. Only the metadata containers are rewritten, so there is no quality loss at all.",{"question":57,"answer":58},"Does removing metadata affect photo orientation?","No. The orientation tag is kept on purpose, so a portrait photo still displays upright after cleaning.",{"question":60,"answer":61},"Which metadata can be removed?","GPS location, camera and lens details including serial numbers, and date and time information. Each group has its own switch, so you can remove location but keep the date, for example.",{"question":63,"answer":64},"Is the location shown to me before removing it?","No. The tool only reports which groups it found, such as location or camera details. It never reads out or displays the values themselves.",{"question":66,"answer":67},"What if a photo has no metadata?","If none of the selected groups is present, the original file is returned unchanged and the result says that nothing was removed.",{"question":69,"answer":70},"Do other image tools remove EXIF too?","Converting, compressing, resizing or cropping re-encodes the image, which drops EXIF data along the way but also re-compresses the picture. 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