Remove metadata from photos
Your camera writes GPS coordinates, device model, timestamps and software into every shot. Docfy reads that hidden layer, shows you exactly what it found, then strips it — in your browser, in batch.
- 100% in-browser
- Batch up to 20 photos
- No account
- Original untouched
Clean your photos
Up to 20 files · JPG, PNG, WebP · 40 MB each
Paste with ⌘V / Ctrl+V · inspected and cleaned locally
What's inside a photo
A phone photo is two things at once: the pixels you see, and a block of data the camera wrote next to them. The second part travels with the file through email, cloud drives, marketplaces and forums — even after the image has been re-shared several times.
Where it was taken
GPS latitude and longitude, often accurate to a few metres, plus altitude and direction.
What took it
Device make and model, lens, body serial number and sometimes the owner's name.
When it happened
Original capture time, edit time and timezone — enough to reconstruct a routine.
How it was edited
Software and app fingerprints, plus XMP or PNG text blocks added by editors.
What actually changes
Docfy keeps the pixels and drops the containers. The cleaned file opens the same way, looks the same, and no longer carries the fields below.
| Field | Original file | After cleaning |
|---|---|---|
| GPS location | 37.7749, −122.4194 | absent |
| Device / lens | iPhone 15 Pro · 6.8 mm | absent |
| Capture time | 2026-08-12 14:32:11 | absent |
| Owner & serial | Anthony · F2LX9… | absent |
| Software | 17.5.1 / Lightroom 14 | absent |
Photos leak more than faces
A listing photo can reveal a home address. A photo posted in a support forum can carry an employee's name and device serial. Reporters and activists routinely get outed by metadata they never knew existed, because platforms strip it inconsistently: some social networks clean uploads, while email, cloud links and marketplaces usually keep everything.
The safest default is to clean the file before it leaves your device — not to trust the next platform to do it for you.
Inspect, clean, verify
Inspect before touching anything
Docfy parses the EXIF block and lists every field it finds, with GPS and identity fields flagged. Nothing is changed yet.
Clean in the browser
The image is drawn to a canvas and re-encoded. Pixels stay; EXIF, XMP and text chunks are not written to the new file.
Verify the output
The cleaned copy is parsed again before download. If any field survived, the file is marked as failed instead of being handed to you silently.
Questions people ask
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No. Reading, cleaning and downloading all happen in this tab. Open DevTools → Network, drop a photo and clean it: there are no upload requests. The page does not load third-party scripts.
Does re-encoding reduce quality?
JPEG is lossy, so the cleaned copy is re-encoded at 0.92 quality. For print work, keep the original and clean a copy. PNG copies stay lossless but are usually larger than the original.
Which metadata is removed?
EXIF (GPS, device, lens, exposure, ISO, focal length, timestamps), author and copyright fields, serial numbers, XMP, and PNG text chunks. Software fingerprints go with them.
Can I clean HEIC photos from my iPhone?
Only where the browser can decode HEIC — Safari usually can, Chrome and Firefox cannot. Export as JPG first. HEIC files are detected and reported, not silently skipped.
How many photos can I do at once?
Up to 20 photos per batch, 40 MB each. Cleaned files download one at a time; if your browser blocks multiple downloads, allow them for this site.
Does it remove watermarks or blur faces?
No. This tool removes metadata containers only. Watermarks are part of the pixels, and face blurring is a separate operation.
Other Docfy tools
Send photos, not the places they were taken.
Strip EXIF and GPS in batch — the pixels stay, the metadata goes, and nothing is uploaded.