Remove Your Info From a Photo
Drop in a picture and see what info is in it — where the photo was taken, your camera, your name, the date — then delete all of it in one click. Nothing is uploaded.
How to See and Remove the Info in a Photo
Drop in a JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC and the first thing you get back is a list of what the file is actually carrying — the camera info, the date it was taken, the software that touched it, sometimes your name, and the GPS coordinates of the spot you were standing on. Location is flagged in red. If you only came here to see where a photo was taken, or to check whether yours has your address in it, you can stop at that screen.
Press the button and the picture is redrawn from its pixels and nothing else. That takes the location off the photo along with every other detail attached to it — no coordinates, no map, no camera, no name, no timestamp. The clean copy saves straight to your device and looks exactly the same as the one you started with.
None of this goes near a server. The file is read and rewritten inside this browser tab, which matters more than usual when the picture you're cleaning was taken inside your own house.
When to Take Your Info Off a Photo Before Sending It
- Selling something to a stranger. The listing photos are usually fine — most marketplaces strip this out on upload. The problem is the three extra pictures the buyer asks you to text over. Those go across as files, untouched, and they carry the coordinates of your front door.
- Sending a photo to someone you haven't met. A dating app, a forum, a seller, a group chat you just joined. If you want to send a photo without giving away your location, this is the step — a picture of your dog on the rug is enough to put a pin on your street.
- Posting pictures of your kids. Photos of children get saved and re-shared well past the people you sent them to, and the location travels with the file every time it moves.
- Putting images on your own website. A blog, a portfolio, a property listing, a classified ad. Nothing in the upload path cleans this for you, so whatever was in the file is what anyone can pull back out of it.
- Taking your name off a photo. Cameras and editing apps write an Artist or Copyright field. If you registered the software under your full legal name years ago, that name is still riding along in everything you export.
Mistakes That Leave Your Info in the File
- Assuming the big platforms have it covered. Facebook, Instagram and X do strip it on upload. Email, iMessage, WhatsApp in document mode, most forums, most website builders and any file you hand over directly do not. Rough rule: if it went through a large social network it's probably clean, and if you sent the file itself, it isn't.
- Turning the camera setting off and thinking you're done. Switching off location permission stops new photos being tagged. It does nothing to the thousands already on your phone.
- Cleaning one photo and sending five. This is per file. The one you remembered to clean is not the one that gives you away.
- Cropping or filtering instead of stripping. Editing the picture doesn't touch the info attached to it. In some apps it copies it straight into the new file.
- Expecting a byte-identical JPEG. Redrawing the image is what removes the data, and a JPEG gets re-encoded at 92% quality in the process. You won't see it, but it isn't the same file. Use PNG if you need that.
- Forgetting the colour profile goes too. Stripping everything also drops the embedded ICC profile. Invisible for normal sharing, worth knowing for print work — keep your original either way.
How do I remove my info from a photo?
Drop the picture in above. You'll see everything the file is carrying — camera info, the date, your name if it's in there, and the location — and one button deletes the lot. It happens in your browser, so the photo isn't sent anywhere to do it.
Why does my picture say where it was taken?
Your phone stamps the coordinates into the file the moment you take the shot, and the photo app reads them back out as a place name or a little map. It's not something you added afterwards — it's been in there since the shutter closed.
My photo shows the address it was taken at. How do I get rid of that?
The address is your photo app looking up the coordinates stored in the file. Clearing them from the file clears the address with it — drop the picture in above and strip it, and the map goes away for anyone who opens that copy.
Can someone find my address from a picture I sent them?
If the photo still has its location and it was taken at home, then yes. It's a pair of coordinates and anyone can paste them into a map. Same answer for a photo you texted — messaging apps generally pass the file through as-is, so someone can track it back to wherever you took it. Drop yours in above and you'll see in a second whether it's carrying anything.
How do I see where a photo was taken, or check what info is in it?
Drop it in. You get the full list before you're asked to do anything, with location marked in red. Nothing is uploaded, and you don't have to remove anything if you only wanted a look.
Can I hide the location instead of deleting it?
Not really, and you wouldn't want to. Hiding it in a photo app only changes what that app shows you — the coordinates stay in the file and travel with it. This tool removes them from the file itself, so there's nothing left to find.
How do I remove the camera info from a photo?
It comes off with everything else. The make, the model, the lens, the exposure settings and the serial number in some cases are all part of the same block of data, and stripping the photo clears all of it in one go.
Does taking a screenshot remove it?
It does, because a screenshot is a fresh picture of your screen rather than a copy of the original file. It also costs you the resolution, so the result is usually too soft for a listing or a print.
Is it safe to send photos to a buyer on Marketplace?
The listing photos are, on most marketplaces. It's the extra pictures you message over afterwards that need watching, because those move as files and keep everything that was in them. Clean those before you send them.
Can I take my name off a photo file?
Yes. Names usually sit in the Artist, Copyright or Software fields, written there by a camera or an editing app. They show up in the list above if they're present, and they go with everything else when you strip it.