Local File Scrubber
Remove hidden GPS and camera data. 100% browser-based.
Remove hidden GPS and camera data. 100% browser-based.
PrivacyShrink EXIF is a zero-server privacy utility that surgically removes hidden metadata from your photos. Every smartphone and digital camera embeds invisible data—like your exact GPS coordinates, date, and device model—into the image file. This tool strips that data locally in your browser before you share it, ensuring your location stays private.
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is standard data embedded into photos by smartphones and cameras. It typically contains the exact GPS latitude/longitude where the photo was taken, the date and time, the device make and model (e.g., "iPhone 15 Pro"), and camera settings. If you upload or email an original photo, anyone can view this data.
Privacy and security. If you share a photo of an item you are selling online, or send a document to a client from your home office, the EXIF data can reveal your exact home address. Stripping this data ensures you are only sharing the pixels, not your location.
No. PrivacyShrink runs 100% locally in your web browser. The image is loaded into your device's memory, the metadata is stripped using JavaScript, and the clean file is saved back to your device. We never see your photos or your metadata.
For JPEGs, absolutely not. We use a custom binary parser to surgically remove the EXIF/APP1 headers without re-encoding the image data, meaning it is 100% lossless. For PNG and WebP files, we use your browser's native canvas to cleanly re-encode the image at maximum quality without the metadata payload.
Yes. Once the page is loaded, the EXIF stripping logic executes entirely offline. You can disconnect from the internet, strip your photos, and reconnect when you are ready to safely share them.
We officially support JPEG (which contains the most EXIF data), PNG, and WebP.