GPS-Only EXIF Stripper — Protect Your Location

GPS-Only EXIF Stripper is a precision metadata editor. Most 'EXIF removers' are all-or-nothing, stripping out your camera model, lens settings, and copyright info along with the location. This tool specifically targets GPS coordinates, allowing you to share your photography safely while preserving the technical data that matters to you and other photographers. It's built for privacy-conscious users who want to prevent 'doxing' through photo metadata. Every modern camera — including the one in your smartphone — embeds a rich set of metadata into every photo you take. This EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data includes the camera make and model, lens type, focal length, aperture, ISO speed, shutter speed, date and time, and critically, GPS coordinates. When you share a photo on social media, a marketplace listing, or a forum, that metadata travels with the image unless you explicitly remove it. Most privacy guides recommend 'strip all EXIF,' but that throws away valuable information: photographers rely on EXIF data to study how a shot was composed, and camera settings like shutter speed and aperture are essential for learning and critique. GPS-Only EXIF Stripper solves this by surgically removing only the location coordinates — latitude, longitude, altitude, and GPS timestamp — while leaving every other EXIF field intact. This means you can share your photography portfolio without revealing your home address, and sell items on Facebook Marketplace without broadcasting where you live, all while preserving the technical metadata that makes photography communities valuable.

The tool uses a lightweight JavaScript EXIF parser to locate the GPS directory within the image's metadata blob. It then surgicaly removes those specific bytes or nullifies the values while leaving the rest of the metadata header intact. The resulting image is then provided as a local download. The process reads the JPEG/HEIC/WebP file structure, identifies the APP1 marker where EXIF data is stored, and navigates the IFD (Image File Directory) tree to find the GPS sub-IFD. Only the GPS tags are zeroed out or removed — all other tags (Make, Model, F-Stop, ISO, DateTimeOriginal, etc.) pass through untouched. Because everything runs in your browser using FileReader and typed arrays, your original image files are never uploaded to a server, making the tool suitable for processing sensitive photos that contain personal or confidential content. The batch mode lets you select multiple images at once and strips GPS from all of them in a single operation, which is especially useful when preparing a folder of vacation photos for social sharing or cleaning images from a real estate listing.