Remove GPS Location
from Photos

What’s in your phone’s photos

A JPEG straight out of an iPhone or Android camera typically contains:

• GPS latitude and longitude — often to 5+ decimal places (meter accuracy).
• GPS altitude.
• Timestamp with timezone.
• Camera model and serial number.
• Lens info, ISO, aperture, exposure.
• Embedded thumbnails — sometimes not edited when you cropped the main image.

Why “remove location” toggles aren’t always enough

iOS and some Android skins offer a per-share toggle that strips GPS when you send a photo. They work — for that one share. The original file in your gallery still has the coordinates, and anything that copies the file directly (cloud sync, AirDrop, export to USB) carries the GPS with it. For files already on disk, you need a tool that operates on the file itself.

How the browser canvas strips it

A browser’s <canvas> element only knows about pixels. When you draw an image onto a canvas and export it with canvas.toBlob(), you get a brand-new JPEG or PNG built from the pixel grid alone. No EXIF survives the trip:

const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = img.naturalWidth;
canvas.height = img.naturalHeight;
canvas.getContext("2d").drawImage(img, 0, 0);
canvas.toBlob(blob => { /* clean file, no GPS */ }, "image/jpeg", 0.95);

That’s the entire mechanism. The cleaned file is bit-for-bit different from the original because the encoder runs again, but visually identical.

Step by step

1. Drop the photo — or a batch of photos — into the box above.
2. Click Download, or Download all for a batch.
3. The downloaded file has zero EXIF and zero GPS.

Verify after cleaning

Don’t take our word for it. On the command line:

exiftool -GPS:all your_photo_clean.jpg

The output should be empty — no GPS, no coordinates, nothing.

Why client-side matters here

Most tools that “remove EXIF online” mean you upload your photo to their server and they send a cleaned one back. That is the opposite of privacy — you just handed your GPS coordinates to a stranger’s server. A browser canvas does the same job locally, with no upload. Open dev tools, switch to the Network tab, and watch zero requests fire while this page processes your file.