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Remove EXIF

The photo without its metadata: no GPS, no camera, no date, no hidden preview.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to remove EXIF

  1. Drop the photos.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Remove and download the clean copies.

What happens to your file

The pixels are decoded, the camera’s orientation applied, and the picture re-encoded with no metadata at all: EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, the colour profile and the embedded preview are gone. PNG and WebP stay PNG and WebP; JPG, HEIC and TIFF come back as JPG.

Without its colour profile a wide-gamut photo displays in standard colour — the price of a file that carries nothing but pixels.

Questions

Does my phone really put my location in photos?

By default, yes — latitude and longitude to a few metres, plus the exact time and the phone model. Anyone who gets the file can read it; this removes it.

Why did my HEIC come back as JPG?

The clean copy is re-encoded, and JPG is what every site and app accepts. Convert with HEIC to JPG first if you want to choose the quality.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "sanitize",
    "options": {}
  }'

The same operation, sanitize — A safer copy. Images: re-encoded pixels, orientation applied, metadata gone. PDFs: JavaScript, auto-run and launch actions, embedded files neutralised — with a report naming exactly what was removed. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.