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JPG / JPEG · Lossless · No upload

Remove metadata from JPG / JPEG

See every hidden field in your JPG / JPEG image, then strip it — with the pixels copied through untouched.

Where JPG / JPEG keeps its metadata

JPEG stores metadata in application marker segments that sit before the compressed image data. EXIF and XMP live in APP1, the ICC colour profile in APP2, C2PA credentials in APP11, and IPTC inside a Photoshop resource block in APP13. Free-text comments go in a COM segment.

How we remove it

We walk the marker segments, drop the ones carrying metadata, and copy everything from the start-of-scan marker onward — that is the entropy-coded pixel data — through byte for byte. The image is never decoded, so it cannot lose quality.

Worth knowing about JPG / JPEG

  • JPEG is the format where re-encoding hurts most. Every decode-and-resave cycle is lossy, so a tool that "cleans" by re-saving degrades your photo a little each time.
  • The APP14 "Adobe" segment is deliberately kept. It declares the colour transform, and removing it turns CMYK and YCCK JPEGs into colour-inverted messes. Tools that blindly drop every APPn segment get this wrong.
  • If you keep orientation, we rebuild a minimal EXIF block containing just that tag rather than editing the original in place — safer than surgically rewriting a vendor IFD.
  • JPEG thumbnails are stored inside the EXIF block, so removing EXIF removes the thumbnail too.

Using a Samsung or Pixel phone? See our guide on how to remove photo metadata on Android.

Other formats

The same engine handles PNG, WebP, HEIC / HEIF, AVIF, GIF, TIFF, MP4 and MOV.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Does removing metadata change my JPG / JPEG file's quality?
No. We walk the marker segments, drop the ones carrying metadata, and copy everything from the start-of-scan marker onward — that is the entropy-coded pixel data — through byte for byte. The image is never decoded, so it cannot lose quality. After each removal we re-read the finished file and, where the browser can decode both, compare every pixel against the original to prove nothing changed.
Where is metadata stored inside a JPG / JPEG file?
JPEG stores metadata in application marker segments that sit before the compressed image data. EXIF and XMP live in APP1, the ICC colour profile in APP2, C2PA credentials in APP11, and IPTC inside a Photoshop resource block in APP13. Free-text comments go in a COM segment.
Is my JPG / JPEG file uploaded?
No. The file is parsed and rewritten by JavaScript on your own device. There is no upload endpoint, so there is also no size cap and no queue.
Can I clean several JPG / JPEG files at once?
Yes. Drop as many as you like and download them back as a single ZIP. Files are processed one after another, so memory stays flat no matter how big the batch is.