What Hidden Data Lives Inside Your Images?
More than most people think. Phone photos carry EXIF data: camera model, timestamps and often exact GPS coordinates of where you took them. AI images are even chattier: Stable Diffusion writes your full prompt, seed and settings into PNG text chunks; Midjourney and DALL·E embed XMP metadata and C2PA content credentials that cryptographically mark the file as AI-generated; Photoshop leaves editing history markers.
This tool removes it surgically and losslessly. Instead of re-encoding the image (which recompresses and degrades pixels), it parses the actual file structure — JPEG APP segments, PNG chunks, WebP RIFF chunks — and deletes only the metadata blocks:
- JPEG: APP1–APP15 (EXIF, GPS, XMP, Photoshop IRB, C2PA/JUMBF), COM comments
- PNG: tEXt / zTXt / iTXt (where AI prompts live), eXIf, tIME and other ancillary chunks
- WebP: EXIF and XMP chunks, with the header flags corrected
The pixel data passes through byte-for-byte identical — the "Pixels changed" counter will always read 0. Files usually shrink; AI PNGs with long prompts can lose many kilobytes.
Want a smaller file too? Run the clean image through the Image Compressor — and note that our Resizer and WebP Converter also drop metadata as a side effect of conversion (but they re-encode pixels; this tool doesn't).