Remove EXIF and GPS data from photos
A photo taken on a phone usually carries an EXIF block: the exact coordinates of where you stood, the camera model, the second the shutter fired, and the software that touched the file. Send the photo as a file, and all of it goes along.
When this actually matters
Selling something online with photos taken at home. Sending a property or damage photo to a stranger. Sharing images of children. Publishing photos from a location you don't want tied to you. In each case the pixels are the point — the coordinates are a stowaway.
Major social platforms generally strip metadata on upload, so a feed post is usually safe. But a photo sent as an email attachment, messenger document, cloud link or marketplace listing typically keeps its EXIF block intact. If it leaves your device as a file, assume the data travels unless you removed it.
How to see and remove it — without uploading the photo
The paradox of most "remove EXIF online" tools: they ask you to upload the photo to their server to remove the data you consider sensitive. Barecopy inverts that — the photo is read by JavaScript in your own browser tab:
- Open Barecopy and drop the photo (JPG, PNG or WebP).
- It decodes the EXIF block locally and shows what's inside — GPS as real coordinates, camera, timestamp, software.
- Select Clean & download. The metadata segments are cut out of the file at byte level; the image data is copied untouched.
Check a photo you're about to send
Drop it on Barecopy. If there are GPS coordinates inside, you'll see them in red — then download a copy without them. The photo never leaves your device; airplane mode works.
Open Barecopy →Why byte-level removal beats re-encoding
Many tools "remove" EXIF by decoding the image and saving a new one. That recompresses the pixels — quality drops a little with every pass, and large phone photos can fail outright in the browser. Barecopy instead walks the file's structure and deletes only the metadata segments (EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments), copying the image data byte-for-byte. The result is pixel-identical to the original, with the color profile preserved, and it works on full-size 48-megapixel photos instantly.
Frequently asked
Does removing EXIF reduce the photo's quality?
Not here. The image data is copied without re-encoding, so the clean copy is pixel-identical. You can verify: file size drops by roughly the size of the metadata, nothing else changes.
Can I clean many photos at once?
Yes — Barecopy Pro cleans a whole folder in one go and returns everything as a ZIP with a report listing what was removed from each file.
What about screenshots?
Screenshots usually carry little or no EXIF, but PNG files can contain text chunks naming the software or author. Barecopy detects and removes those too.