PROTECT YOUR LOCATION — FREE & PRIVATE

Remove GPS Location from Photos

Strip embedded GPS coordinates, altitude, speed, and direction data from your photos before sharing them online.

Drop a file here to try it

JPEG · PNG · WebP — max 25 MB — free, no account

What's hidden in your files?

Tap each category to see real examples

Pinpoint accuracy to your front door

Smartphone GPS data embedded in photos is typically accurate to within 3-5 meters. That's enough to identify your exact home address, workplace, gym, school, or any other location you photograph. A single photo can reveal where you live.

What's hidden

34.0522° N, 118.2437° W — accurate to ~3 meters

A photo of your pet, your cooking, or your hobby taken at home reveals your home address to anyone who checks.

How it works

Three steps. No account. No upload. No cost.

1

Drop your file

Drag and drop or click to select. Your file stays in your browser — nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

2

See what's hidden

MetaStrip scans and displays every piece of metadata — GPS, device info, timestamps, AI tags, author data.

3

Download clean

One click strips all metadata. Download your clean file instantly — no watermarks, no quality loss.

Supported formats

Deep metadata scanning for every field

.jpeg

Full GPS suite: coordinates, altitude, speed, direction, timestamps

.png

GPS data in tEXt/iTXt chunks and XMP

.webp

EXIF GPS data, XMP location metadata

Why remove GPS location data from your photos?

Every photo taken with a smartphone contains embedded GPS coordinates that pinpoint exactly where the photo was taken — often accurate to within a few meters. This data is stored in the EXIF metadata of the image file and travels with the photo when you share it.

While major social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook strip location data on upload, many other sharing methods do not. Email attachments, messaging apps (when sending as files), cloud storage links, forum posts, and personal websites all preserve GPS coordinates by default.

The privacy implications are significant. A photo taken at home reveals your home address. Photos taken over time reveal your daily patterns — where you work, eat, exercise, and socialize. For public figures, journalists, activists, and domestic abuse survivors, this data can be genuinely dangerous.

MetaStrip removes all GPS and location data from your photos before you share them. Processing happens entirely in your browser — your photos and location data are never uploaded anywhere. It's the most private way to strip location metadata from images.

Ready to strip metadata? It's free.

Up to 20 files per batch. No account, no upload, no cost.