Free online EXIF remover for JPEG/PNG photos. Strip GPS coordinates, camera model, and timestamps privately in the browser.
EXIF is metadata cameras embed in photos — often including exact GPS location, device model, lens information, and date/time of capture. This data is invisible to most viewers but readable by anyone who downloads the image.
Drop a photo into RookScrub, strip metadata locally, and download the clean file. No server upload. The original file on your device is unchanged.
Remove EXIF Data from Photos exists to remove EXIF from a photo, including GPS, and check the export no longer carries those tags. It is not a second copy of the tool homepage. The homepage introduces the whole product. This page stays on one job so a search for that job lands on instructions you can follow without hunting through other tabs. Read the result on this page against the input you actually used. A screenshot without the input is not evidence. If the result surprises you, change one thing and run it again before you change your VPN, browser, or server config.
Work through Remove EXIF Data from Photos in order. 1. Drop a JPEG or HEIC the page accepts. 2. Find the GPS and device lines in the report. 3. Export the stripped file. 4. Reopen the export on this page and confirm those lines are gone. Write down the input and the output together. When you ask someone for help, send both. Repeat the same input once. A stable tool returns the same answer. If it does not, the input changed or the page is talking to a different network path than you think.
EXIF is not the only place a location can hide. A caption burned into the image remains. Some formats keep a thumbnail that also has GPS. Re-read the export. Editing the photo in another app can write EXIF back. Treat the output as a measurement, then decide. RookVPN does not log the contents of a client-side tool, and a measurement is not a promise that every other app on the device behaves the same way. Compare a second path when the decision matters: a terminal command, another browser, or the matching guide linked below.
Example: the report shows GPSLatitude and a phone model. After export, a second drop shows neither. If the model string remains, you exported the wrong file or the app wrote a fresh tag. Do not attach the file until the second read is clean.
After you finish Remove EXIF Data from Photos, open the GPS-specific page if location is the only field you care about if the next question is different from the one this page answers. Stay here if you are still on the same job. Extra pages help only when they answer a new question, such as a different algorithm, a different leak channel, or a different file type. The documentation link on this page is the long form of the same workflow, including the checks that do not fit in the tool UI.
No. Only metadata is removed; image pixels are preserved exactly as-is.
Prefer tools that run in-browser with no upload. RookScrub is designed that way — nothing leaves your device.
A block of tags inside a photo: camera, time, and often GPS.
The usual path removes the tag block and keeps the image data.
Screenshots often have no EXIF. The page will show an empty or short tag list.