Photos carry more than the picture. Most hold the camera, the exact time, and often the coordinates of where you were standing. Add one and you will see exactly what yours holds before you remove anything.
It is read straight away and what it contains is listed, including the coordinates if they are there.
Location and date are flagged, because those are the ones people are surprised by.
The picture is copied across byte for byte, so the cleaned photo is pixel for pixel identical to the original.
A photo taken on a phone with location services on records where it was taken to within a few metres. Posted publicly, that is your home address, your child's school, or the hotel you are currently staying in, attached to a picture you thought was just a picture.
Large social networks strip most of this on upload, which has quietly trained people to assume it is handled. It is not handled when you email a photo, send it in a message, attach it to a marketplace listing, or upload it to a small site that never thought about it.
Most tools that remove metadata do it by redrawing the image and exporting it again, which works and quietly degrades the picture every time. This one edits the file's own structure and copies the compressed image data across untouched, so nothing is lost. The colour profile is deliberately kept, because removing that would change how the photo looks.
The tool keeps colour profiles and a minimal orientation note when needed, while removing supported identifying metadata. It does not erase information visible in pixels: faces, addresses, reflections and landmarks can still identify someone. Inspect the cleaned copy before sharing.
No. The work happens inside this tab, on your own machine. Open your browser's network tab while you use the tool, there is no request carrying your file.
Practical limits depend on the tool, browser and available device memory. Large files can fail even when no explicit limit is shown. Keep an original and use a smaller job if this device cannot finish it.
No, and there is no daily limit either. There is nothing to sign up for.
No. The picture data is copied byte for byte. The cleaned file is pixel for pixel identical to the original.
EXIF, including GPS and timestamps, XMP editing history, IPTC captions, and embedded comments. The colour profile is kept so the photo still looks right.
Not from the cleaned file. It is not written into it. Your original still has it, so keep or delete that as you prefer.
JPG, PNG and WebP. iPhone HEIC files are not read directly, so convert them with the HEIC to JPG tool first.
No. Phones often store a photo upright by writing a rotation note instead of turning the pixels. That one note is kept, so the cleaned photo still opens the right way up. It says nothing about you.
PDFs carry an author, dates and editing history of their own. The Remove PDF metadata tool handles those.