Does this remove EXIF?

It removes the EXIF block when that block is present, including the camera, the dates, and GPS stored there. EXIF is not the only kind of metadata. XMP, IPTC, JPEG comments, and PNG text are removed too when they are present. A color profile can stay.

Does it remove GPS location?

Yes, when the coordinates are stored in the metadata this page removes. A test file’s GPS coordinates were absent from the cleaned copy. The picture, the file name, and other context can still show where a photo belongs. This does not make a photo impossible to place.

Will the photo look different?

An upright JPEG, PNG, or WebP keeps its compressed image data. A sideways JPEG is drawn upright, and that file is a new JPEG. Transparency in a tested PNG stayed transparent. An animated WebP stayed animated.

Is the color profile removed?

No. An ICC profile in an upright JPEG, a PNG color profile, and a WebP ICCP chunk were still there after cleaning. They are left in place so the colors are not quietly changed.

Does this make the file smaller?

Only by the size of the metadata that was removed. A test JPEG went from 6,121 bytes to 5,357 because those blocks were gone, not because the photo was compressed. Use Compress image when the file size is the goal.

Can I check the metadata first?

Yes. The card lists location, date, camera, and hidden text when it finds them. The metadata viewer reads a file without changing it. This page is the one that downloads the cleaned copy.

Are my images uploaded?

No. Cleaning runs in your browser. If you send the cleaned result to another PixZeno tool, this browser keeps that cleaned copy on this device until you clear it.

Can I clean a GIF or a PDF?

No. GIF is refused, and it is not converted to a still image. This page does not edit PDF metadata. It cleans JPG, PNG, and WebP.

Remove embedded metadata from an image

How to download the cleaned copy

Add the images above. Each file gets its own card. The card names what it found, such as a location, a date, a camera, or hidden text. Then it offers the cleaned download.

Choose files with Browse files, or drop them on the page. You can add up to 20 images at a time. A larger selection keeps the first 20 and says so.
Click Remove metadata and download on that card. A separate Download link appears when the copy is ready.
The name keeps the original base and adds -clean. A JPEG is saved as .jpg, a PNG as .png, and a WebP as .webp. photo.png stays a PNG. A JPEG whose name ends in .png is saved as .jpg, because the page reads the file.
When two or more copies are ready, Download all saves them in pixzeno-images.zip.

What can be removed

EXIF is one family of metadata. A JPEG can also carry XMP, IPTC, or a comment. A PNG can carry text chunks and its own EXIF chunk. A WebP can carry EXIF and XMP chunks. This page removes those when they are present. It does not offer a switch that deletes only the GPS and leaves the camera model.

On a test JPEG, the cleaned file no longer contained the camera make, model, lens, software name, capture dates, a JPEG comment, an XMP packet, an IPTC caption, or the GPS coordinates that had been stored in the file. The same kinds of fields were removed from a PNG EXIF chunk and from WebP EXIF and XMP chunks. PNG text chunks and the PNG timestamp were removed as well. The card is read again before it says those blocks are gone.

What can stay

A color profile is not treated as a privacy field. Removing it can change how the colors look. An upright JPEG that already had an ICC profile still had that profile after cleaning. A PNG kept its color profile, gamma, sRGB intent, and pixel-density chunk. A WebP kept an ICCP chunk when the file had one.

JPEG JFIF data stays. The PNG image header and the compressed image data stay. WebP keeps the image chunks, including an alpha chunk and, for an animation, the animation chunks. This is not a claim that every byte besides the pixels is deleted.

An upright image keeps its picture data

For an upright JPEG, the compressed image data in the download matched the file you added. The photo was not written again. A test file stayed 200 by 100 pixels. It got smaller only because the metadata blocks were gone, from 6,121 bytes to 5,357. That is not image compression.

A PNG test kept the same compressed image chunk, byte for byte, including transparent pixels. The clear corners stayed clear, and the opaque center stayed opaque. If you need a smaller file, compress the image. This page does not do that job.

A sideways JPEG is a special case

Some cameras store the picture on its side and put the rotation in EXIF. Deleting that tag and leaving the pixels untouched would show the photo sideways. When the orientation tag is anything other than upright, PixZeno draws the photo upright once and saves a new JPEG.

A test file stored at 200 by 100 with that sideways orientation was downloaded at 100 by 200. The colored halves had moved with the rotation, so the picture stood upright. The camera name and the GPS coordinates were not copied into the new file. The card says this copy is a new JPEG. It can also contain a color profile added by the browser. It is not the original compressed data.

PNG, WebP, and files this page refuses

PNG and WebP are cleaned by rewriting the container, not by drawing a new picture. An animated WebP with two frames was downloaded as that same animation after the EXIF and XMP chunks were removed. The animation bytes matched the original. A transparent WebP kept its alpha chunk.

GIF is refused. It is not turned into a still image, and this page does not claim to clean GIF metadata. HEIC, AVIF, BMP, and SVG are refused. A text file renamed to .jpg is refused, and the other files in that batch can still be cleaned. An iPhone photo that is still HEIC needs Convert HEIC to JPG first. That conversion already writes a new JPEG.

This is not the viewer, and it is not compression

Image Metadata Viewer reads what is in the file and does not change it. This page downloads a cleaned copy. Use the viewer when you want to inspect. Use this page when you want the copy.

Compress Image is the tool that targets kilobytes. Metadata removal can shave off a comment and a GPS block, or it can leave the size almost unchanged. It does not resize the picture, except that a sideways JPEG is stored upright, which swaps the pixel width and height. Words burned into the picture, and a background, are pixels. They stay.

Where the cleaning happens

Reading and cleaning happen in the browser that opened this page. In a test, adding the images, cleaning them, downloading, and building the ZIP sent no image upload.

Compress this result, and the matching links for resize and convert, hand the cleaned file to the next tool. That temporary copy stays in this browser. A test of that handoff contained the cleaned JPEG, and the camera and GPS fields did not come back. Clear images saved in this browser, in the footer, removes the copy. Removing embedded metadata does not make a photo anonymous. The picture itself, the file name, and where you send it can still say plenty.