Remove metadata from iPhone (HEIC) photos

What your iPhone hides in every photo

iPhones save photos as HEIC and write a block of EXIF metadata into each one: your GPS location (often accurate to a few metres), the iPhone model, the exact date and time, and camera settings. None of it shows in the picture, but it travels with the file. Share the original — by message, email, or upload — and whoever receives it can read exactly where and when it was taken.

Check what a HEIC exposes, then strip it

Drop a HEIC photo above and Pixadel reads its metadata and flags the privacy-sensitive parts — GPS first. To clean it, Pixadel decodes the HEIC and gives you back a JPG with no metadata at all: no location, no device info, no timestamp. The JPG also opens everywhere (HEIC often doesn't), so you get a share-safe, universally-compatible file in one step.

Why you get a JPG back

HEIC is an Apple-specific format that many apps and sites can't open, so a cleaned HEIC would still be awkward to share. Converting to JPG solves both problems at once — it drops every metadata tag (the Canvas re-encode writes none) and produces a file that works on Windows, Android and the web. If you only need the original HEIC with location removed and don't mind the format, the same drop also handles RAW, JPG and TIFF in their own ways.

Nothing leaves your device

A privacy tool that uploads your photo to clean it makes no sense. Pixadel reads and strips HEIC metadata entirely in your browser using libheif (WebAssembly) — your photos are never transmitted. Drop one or your whole camera roll and clean them all at once into a ZIP.

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