What Photo GPS & EXIF Data Remover is
Phones write GPS into many camera JPEGs. A screenshot you think is “just a picture” can still hold the last place you stood. This tool shows that pin, then builds a new download by drawing the pixels onto a canvas and encoding them again. Canvas encode drops the EXIF block. The original file on disk is not overwritten.
The file is opened with the browser file picker or a drop. Bytes are read in the tab so the EXIF library can walk the headers. A preview URL is made for the image element. Strip does not edit those headers in place. It draws the decoded pixels onto a canvas, then calls the canvas encode path and offers a new blob. That is why GPS, camera serial, and many other tags vanish: they never get written into the fresh file. Orientation that the browser already applied to the bitmap is what you see. HEIC and RAW stay unsupported; convert those first or export a JPEG, PNG, or WebP the page will accept.
How to use it
- Drop a photo, paste it, or use Choose photo.
- Read the preview and the chips: make, time, and whether GPS is present.
- If a pin is found, the map uses OpenStreetMap tiles so you can see the place. That map request is the only extra network call. The photo bytes stay in this tab.
- Tap Strip GPS & download. Save the new file. Keep the original if you still need the metadata.
Common uses
Strip a holiday photo before you mail it. Check a listing picture before it goes on a marketplace. Clean a screenshot that came from a camera roll. Verify a file a client sent you still has a pin. Designers use it before an Open Graph crop so the public JPEG has no GPS. Journalists use it on a tip photo before a desk share. Estate agents use it when a room shot should not reveal a home coordinate. Teachers use it on a field-trip JPEG before a class site. Keep the master if you still need the pin for your own album.
Privacy
The photo is not sent to social-hub.io. We do not keep a copy. If a GPS pin is present, the map loads tiles from OpenStreetMap using those coordinates — a place lookup, not a photo upload. Refreshing the tab clears the preview. The stripped download lives only on your device.