PixWash
iPhone photos carry your GPS location by default. Drop one here — HEIC works directly — and download a clean copy. Nothing is 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.
Your iPhone photos know where you took them
With default settings, the iPhone camera stores your latitude and longitude in every photo, precise to a few meters. Since iOS 11 those photos are HEIC files — and most metadata tools still can't open them, which is why "convert to JPEG first" became the standard advice. You don't need to: drop the HEIC above and PixWash reads it directly, in your browser. The sample loaded on this page is a HEIC with GPS so you can see what the red callout looks like.
Cleaning without converting
Converting HEIC to JPEG to strip metadata costs you twice: the image is re-encoded (quality loss) and you lose the format's smaller file size. PixWash does neither — it locates the EXIF and XMP records inside the HEIC container and wipes them in place. The compressed image data is untouched, the file stays a HEIC, and every pixel is bit-for-bit identical. Because the wipe is in-place, the cleaned file has the same size as the original.
Where iPhone location data actually leaks
Big social apps strip metadata on upload. The leaks are everywhere else: photos sent as email attachments, cloud-drive share links (iCloud, Drive and Dropbox links share the original file), "original quality" sends in chat apps, forums, classified listings, and AirDrop. If the original file reaches someone, so do the coordinates.
Turn it off at the source
Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Camera → "Never" stops the tagging entirely (you lose the Photos app's place-based browsing). Per-share: in the share sheet, tap "Options" at the top and switch Location off — that share gets a location-free copy while your library keeps the data. PixWash covers the third case: photos that already exist and need to go somewhere clean.
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