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AI Metadata Remover

Strip all hidden data and AI generation prompts from your images.

  • Private by design

    Files are processed in your browser.

  • Free & no sign-up

    No account, no email, no limits.

  • Fast

    No upload wait — work starts instantly.

  • No watermarks

    Clean output, every time.

Every time you take a photo or generate an image with AI (like Midjourney or Stable Diffusion), hidden metadata is embedded into the file. This can include your GPS location, camera settings, or the exact text prompts used to create the AI image.

Our AI Metadata Remover physically strips 100% of this hidden data. It works by painting your image onto a blank canvas and saving only the raw pixels, permanently destroying any embedded EXIF, XMP, or IPTC profiles. The process runs locally in your browser for absolute privacy.

How to use the ai metadata remover

  1. 1

    Select image

    Drag a JPG or PNG into the box, or click to browse.

  2. 2

    Clean metadata

    Click Remove Metadata. The tool will instantly strip all hidden tags.

  3. 3

    Download

    Save your clean, untraceable image file.

What is hidden inside your photos

Every photo carries a block of metadata alongside the pixels. Some of it is harmless — exposure, aperture, which lens. Some of it is not: the exact GPS coordinates where the shot was taken, the date and time to the second, the device serial number, and the name of whoever owns the software that edited it.

Newer additions matter too. Images produced or edited by AI tools increasingly carry provenance tags and generator credits. Whether you want those travelling with a picture you post publicly is your decision, and it should be a decision rather than a default.

Why it matters when you share

Location leaks
GPS coordinates in a photo of your living room point at your front door. Social platforms usually strip them; email, messaging apps and file uploads frequently do not.
Timestamps
Precise capture times can reveal patterns about where you are and when — routine, travel, absence from home.
Device identifiers
Camera make, model and serial number can link separate photos to the same person.
Edit history and credits
Software names, account identifiers and AI generator tags can say more about how an image was made than you intended.

Removed in your browser

Stripping metadata by uploading a photo to a server is a strange bargain: to stop one company knowing where the picture was taken, you hand the picture and its coordinates to another. This tool rewrites the file on your own device, so the metadata you are removing is never transmitted in the first place.

The pixels are untouched — the image itself is bit-for-bit what it was, only the hidden fields are gone. Keep an unstripped original if you rely on that data for organising your own library, because removal cannot be undone.

AI Metadata Remover guides

Step-by-step walkthroughs for the things people most often need to do.

Frequently asked questions

Does this remove AI generation prompts?

Yes. AI generators embed prompts and model data into XMP metadata tags. This tool completely destroys all XMP tags.

Is the image quality affected?

The visual quality remains identical. We simply extract the raw pixels and save them without the hidden metadata blocks.

Is my image uploaded?

No. The metadata removal happens entirely on your device inside your web browser. Your images are never sent to a server.

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