How to remove EXIF and GPS data from photos (Windows, Mac, iPhone and online)

2026-10-16 · 5 min read

A photo can carry more than the picture: the phone model, the date and time, and sometimes the exact place it was taken. If you send a photo to a client or post it online, you may not want to share that. This guide shows how to remove it on common devices and how to check the result.

Remove it on Windows

Right-click the photo and choose Properties.
Open the Details tab.
Click Remove Properties and Personal Information at the bottom.
Choose Create a copy with all possible properties removed and click OK.

Windows makes a copy of the photo with the removable details taken out. Keep your original.

Remove location on a Mac

Open the photo in Preview.
Choose Tools then Show Inspector.
Open the GPS tab and click Remove Location Info.

This removes the location only. Camera and date details stay.

Share without location on an iPhone

Open the photo, tap the Share button.
Tap Options at the top of the share sheet.
Switch Location off, then share.

The photo you share has no location. The one in your library keeps it.

On Android

The steps depend on the phone and the gallery app. Look for Details or Info on the photo, and for an option to remove location data or to stop the camera saving location (in the camera settings, usually called “location tags” or “save location”).

Remove everything at once

The built-in tools do not remove everything and work one file at a time. Image Cleaner rebuilds the picture from its pixels, so EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, colour profile, text notes and content-credential markers are all left behind, for up to 10 images at a time. For each image it shows what the original carried and checks that the cleaned file has none.

How to check that it worked

Windows: right-click, Properties, Details. Look for camera, date and GPS lines.
Mac: Preview, Tools, Show Inspector, look at the Exif and GPS tabs.
Any computer: open the file in a metadata viewer and check that no camera, software or GPS entries are listed.

Good to know

Many social networks remove some metadata when you upload. Do not rely on it, and files you send by email or chat as a document keep everything.
Removing metadata does not change the picture. It also does not remove invisible watermarks inside the picture. See what SynthID is.
If you remove the rotation flag by itself, a photo can show sideways. Tools that rebuild the picture, including ours, apply the rotation first.