PixWash
Strip EXIF, XMP and IPTC from any JPEG at the byte level — pixels untouched, nothing uploaded.
Private by design: the photo is read and cleaned entirely in your browser. It is never uploaded anywhere — you can even load this page, go offline, and it still works.
What's inside a JPEG besides the image
A JPEG is a sequence of segments. The picture lives in a few of them; the rest is metadata: EXIF (camera make and model, lens, exposure, timestamps, GPS, sometimes serial numbers) in an APP1 segment, XMP (Adobe's XML metadata, often duplicating EXIF and adding edit history) in another APP1, IPTC/Photoshop data in APP13, free-form comments in COM segments, and vendor blobs in other APPn segments. Some phones even append extra data after the image officially ends.
Removing it without touching the image
Because metadata lives in separate segments, it can be removed by byte surgery: delete the metadata segments, keep the image segments. That's what PixWash does — no decoding, no re-encoding, no quality change. The cleaned file's pixels are bit-for-bit identical to the original. (Many online tools instead re-encode your JPEG at a fixed quality setting, silently degrading it — see why that matters.)
What's kept
PixWash keeps what the image needs to display correctly: the JFIF header, the Adobe color-transform segment, and — by default — the ICC color profile, so colors don't shift. You can untick the profile too if you want the smallest, most anonymous file. Everything else goes, and the findings table above shows you exactly what was there before it went.
Command-line equivalent
If you script this often: exiftool -all= photo.jpg does byte-level removal too (it's the gold standard). PixWash is for when you're on a machine without tools installed — or when you want to see what a file carries before cleaning it.
Common tasks
Guides for the usual reasons people end up here — each opens the tool with a live demo:
Remove GPS location from photos · Remove location from iPhone photos (HEIC) · Remove EXIF data from a JPEG · Remove EXIF from HEIC photos · View EXIF data online · Strip EXIF without losing image quality · Remove metadata from a PNG · Remove EXIF & XMP metadata from a WebP image · Remove metadata from an AVIF image · Remove metadata from a TIFF · Remove metadata from DNG raw files · Remove metadata from camera raw files (CR2, NEF, ARW, ORF, RW2, PEF, RAF) · Remove metadata from a PDF · Clean photos before selling online · Your camera’s serial number is in your photos
По-русски
Удалить метаданные (EXIF) из фото — по-русски · убрать геолокацию (GPS) с фото · удалить EXIF из JPEG · фото iPhone (HEIC) · посмотреть EXIF онлайн · метаданные PDF