Photos carry more than pixels. A JPEG straight from a phone can include the location it was taken, the exact time, the device model and the editing software. If you are publishing images — on a marketplace listing, a forum, a personal site — stripping that data is a sensible habit.
The quickest method
Redraw the image. When a picture is decoded onto an HTML canvas and re-exported, the new file contains only pixel data: no EXIF, no GPS, no ICC profile, no comments. The Remove Image Metadata tool does exactly this in your browser and also shows you what the original contained.
What you keep and lose
- Kept: the visible image, at full resolution. Choose PNG output to keep it pixel-perfect.
- Lost: all metadata, including the orientation flag — but the browser already applied rotation while decoding, so the saved image is upright.
Check first
Run the file through the EXIF Viewer beforehand to see whether there is anything sensitive to remove. Screenshots and most PNGs carry no EXIF at all.
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