How to remove EXIF data from a photo
EXIF is a block of notes your camera writes inside the picture file: the make and model, the date and time it was taken, the exposure settings, and on almost every phone the GPS coordinates of where you were standing. Olbo removes all of it when it saves the picture, on your own machine, and the photo is never uploaded.
Step by step
- Open Pictures and drop your photo in.JPEG, PNG and WebP. The file is read off your disk and stays there.
- Change anything you want to change, or nothing at all.Crop, straighten, rotate, resize, adjust the colour. You do not have to edit the picture for the metadata to come off.
- Save it.The picture is drawn onto a fresh canvas and written out from that, so the EXIF and XMP blocks are not carried across. What you get back is the pixels and nothing else.
What is actually in there
The camera make and model, the lens, the exposure, the date and time to the second, and the orientation. On a phone, usually the latitude and longitude, often to within a few metres, and sometimes the direction the camera was pointing.
That is the part people forget they are sharing. A photograph of something harmless, taken at home and posted publicly, can carry your address in a field nobody looks at.
Why saving it again is enough
A canvas holds pixels and nothing else. Olbo draws your picture onto one and encodes the result, so there is no step where the metadata could be copied across even by accident. It comes off by construction rather than by a routine somebody has to remember to run.
The one thing this cannot do is change a file you have already sent to somebody. Strip it before it goes out, not after.
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