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Photos carry far more than pixels. Before you post a batch online or send them to someone you don’t know, wipe the hidden location, timestamps and camera details from every file at once, without the photos ever leaving your device.
Processing locally on your device
Overview
Most phone and camera photos embed EXIF metadata: the exact GPS coordinates where the shot was taken, the date and time to the second, the device make and model, lens and exposure settings, and on many cameras a body serial number. Photos edited in desktop software may also carry XMP and IPTC blocks with author names, copyright notes, software history and keywords, plus an embedded thumbnail that can show the uncropped original. Shared casually, this information can reveal where someone lives or link pictures back to a specific device.
This tool removes all of that by re-encoding each image in the browser. The photo is decoded, drawn onto a canvas and saved again in its original format, and because a canvas only holds pixels, none of the EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC or thumbnail data survives. Orientation is handled first: a rotation flag in EXIF is applied to the pixels themselves, so portrait photos stay upright even though the flag is gone.
Re-encoding a lossy format such as JPG or WebP involves one more round of compression, which is why there is a quality slider, set to 95% by default. At that level the difference is practically invisible, while file sizes usually stay similar to the originals or shrink slightly once the metadata is gone. PNG output is lossless. When the batch is done, you download every cleaned photo together as a ZIP, with the original formats kept.
| Field | Example | What it reveals |
|---|---|---|
| GPS latitude / longitude | 40.7484, -73.9857 | Where the photo was taken, often within a few meters |
| DateTimeOriginal | 2026:06:14 18:42:07 | Exact date and time of capture |
| Make / Model | Apple iPhone 15 | The device used |
| Body serial number | Camera-specific ID | Links photos to one physical camera |
| Software | Photo editor version | Which app edited the image |
| XMP / IPTC author | Name, copyright, keywords | Who created or edited the file |
| Embedded thumbnail | Small preview image | Can show the original before cropping |
Drop the photos you want to clean onto the page.
Leave quality at 95% or adjust it for lossy formats.
Let the tool re-encode each photo without its metadata.
Download the cleaned photos as a ZIP.
Use cases
Photos of things you sell from home can contain the GPS coordinates of your house. Clean a batch before posting it to a marketplace listing.
Remove device serials and timestamps from images supplied by a source before publishing or sharing them with colleagues.
Strip location data from family photos before sending them to a group chat or uploading to a site whose handling of metadata you can’t verify.
Remove camera settings, editing software history and embedded thumbnails before putting work online, keeping only the image itself.
Pro tips
Answers to common questions about the bulk metadata remover.
The tool re-encodes pixels from a canvas, which cannot carry EXIF, XMP or IPTC data. You can confirm by opening a cleaned file in any EXIF viewer: the GPS, date and camera fields will be empty.
JPG and WebP files are compressed once more, but at the default 95% quality the change is extremely hard to see. PNG files are re-encoded losslessly.
Many cameras store photos sideways with an orientation flag. The tool applies that rotation to the pixels before removing the flag, so the image displays correctly everywhere.
Re-encoding through a canvas typically drops embedded ICC color profiles as well. Most photos from phones are sRGB, so they look the same; wide-gamut images may shift slightly.
Many large platforms remove some metadata on upload, but behavior varies and files sent through email, cloud links or messaging apps as documents often keep it. Cleaning photos yourself removes the uncertainty.
No. ToolEnhancer processes files on your own device inside the browser. They are never sent to, stored on or seen by our servers.
Yes. The bulk metadata remover is free to use with no sign-up, no watermarks and no daily limits.