Photos carry hidden information next to the picture: where it was taken, when, and with which device. Drop a photo to see exactly what yours contains and get a clean copy.
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Most photos are saved with metadata: EXIF from the camera, and sometimes XMP, IPTC or text blocks added by editing apps. It is invisible when you look at the picture, but anyone who receives the file can read it.
The picture itself is not re-encoded: the pixel data is copied unchanged. Technical data needed to display the photo correctly — orientation, colour profile, HDR information and camera settings such as exposure and ISO — is kept and shown to you as technical information.
No. The photo is read and cleaned inside this browser tab. You can switch to airplane mode after the page has loaded and it still works.
No. Metadata is removed without re-encoding the picture; the image data is copied byte for byte, and the new copy is checked to make sure it did not change.
After creating the new copy we reopen it and scan it again from scratch. The result shows each value found in your original next to what the second scan found in the new copy.
On this page all private metadata we find is removed in one step, while technical data is kept. If you need item-by-item choices for HEIC, PNG or WebP files, use Check Any File.