Remove metadata from photos: GPS, date and phone
Add your photos and see what each one gives away: the exact spot where it was taken, the date, the phone, sometimes a name. Then remove it all in one click, with the image left exactly as it was. Made for listing photos, and it works for any photo.
Your photo never leaves your device: it is opened and processed in this page, and nothing is uploaded.
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JPEG, PNG or WebP, one or many. They are read on this device and never uploaded.
What a phone puts in a photo
Every photo from a phone or camera carries data you do not see on screen, in blocks called EXIF, XMP and IPTC. Most of it is technical, but some of it is personal:
- The GPS position, to within a few metres, whenever the camera app is allowed to use location.
- The date and time it was taken, to the second.
- The phone or camera model, its lens and sometimes its serial number.
- Names: the author, the copyright, the owner name set in a camera, and the software that edited it.
- A small copy of the photo (a thumbnail), which some editors do not update: it can still show the photo as it was before it was cropped.
- For 360 photos, the panorama data (GPano) that 360 viewers and tour software look for to open the photo in 360.
Why it matters for listing photos
Listing photos are taken inside someone's home and then published on portals, social media and websites, or sent by email to buyers and colleagues. Whoever has the original file can read what is in it:
- The exact address. If you show only the area in the listing and give the address once a viewing is booked, the GPS position in a photo gives it away first.
- The owner's privacy. Photos the owner sent from their own phone can carry their name, and the dates show when they were at home.
- Your own details: your name, your phone's serial number and the apps you use travel with every file you send.
- Some portals and social networks remove this data when a photo is uploaded, and some do not; few say which in writing. A photo sent as a file (by email, a shared folder or a download link) keeps all of it.
How the tool removes it
The tool reads each file in this page and lists what it found, in plain words. When you remove it, the metadata blocks are cut out of the file and the image data is copied byte for byte: the photo is not re-compressed, so it keeps exactly its quality and resolution, and the file usually gets a little smaller. Two things stay on purpose, and they say nothing about where, when or with what the photo was taken: the orientation, so a photo taken upright still shows upright, and for 360 photos, if you leave the option on, the panorama's shape, so it still opens in 360. The colour profile stays too, so the colours do not change.
- Works with JPEG, PNG and WebP. HEIC, the iPhone's default format, is not supported yet: save the photo as JPEG first.
- A motion photo loses its short video, and an HDR photo shows as a standard photo. The picture itself does not change.
- What the photo shows is not metadata: a door number, a street sign, the view from a window or a face in a mirror stays in the picture.
How to keep the location out of your next photos
- iPhone: go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > Camera and choose Never. New photos are taken without a position (Apple Support, Manage location metadata in Photos, September 2026).
- iPhone, when you share: select the photos, tap Share, then Options, and turn off Location. Location Not Included appears above Options (same Apple page).
- Android, on a Pixel: open the Camera app, tap Settings, then More settings, and turn off Save location (Pixel Camera Help, checked October 2026). On other phones the switch is in the camera app's settings, and its name varies by brand.
- Google Photos cannot remove a position the camera added, and photos downloaded from it keep their location (Google Photos Help, checked October 2026).
- Turning off the location does not remove the date or the phone model: run your photos through this tool before you publish them.
Questions
Does removing the metadata lower the quality?
No. The image data is copied byte for byte, not re-compressed: the pixels are exactly the same and the resolution does not change. Only the metadata blocks are cut out.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. Each photo is read and cleaned in this page, on your device, and saved from it. Nothing is sent to Vistura or anywhere else, and the position is shown as numbers, without a map, so not even a map service sees it.
Do portals and social networks remove the metadata themselves?
Some do and some do not, and few say so in writing, so it is safer not to count on it. It also only helps once the photo is on their site: the file you send by email or in a shared folder keeps everything.
Which files work?
JPEG, PNG and WebP photos from any phone or camera, as many at once as you like. HEIC is not supported yet: on an iPhone, Settings > Camera > Formats > Most Compatible saves new photos as JPEG (Apple Support, Using HEIF or HEVC media on Apple devices).
Will my 360 photo still open in 360?
Yes, if you leave the 360 option on: only the panorama's shape (GPano) is kept, without the date, the place or the camera. With the option off, the photo shows as a flat image twice as wide as it is tall.
Is it really free?
Yes: no account, no email, no watermark and no limit on how many photos you clean.
Share the home as a tour, with only the area on show
The photo files you add to a Vistura tour are stored without their GPS position and camera data (the tour keeps only each photo's date, camera and size, and visitors see them only if you choose to show them), and the property's address shows visitors only the area and a point about 1 km away, unless you choose to show the exact address. The free plan has 3 active tours, with Vistura branding.