Your photos may still contain GPS metadata after editing

A lot of people assume that cropping, resizing, or screenshotting a photo removes all hidden information.

That’s often not true.

Many images still contain metadata such as:

GPS location

Device information

Camera model

Timestamps

EXIF data

In some cases, this can accidentally expose where a photo was taken, what device was used, or when it was captured.

This becomes even more common now that people frequently share:

AI-generated images

screenshots

product demos

travel photos

work documents

social media uploads

I wanted a simple way to remove metadata before sharing files online.

So I built a small browser-based metadata remover:

RemoveMetadata

The main thing I cared about was privacy.

Files are processed locally in the browser and are not uploaded to a server.

Currently the tool supports image metadata removal, and I’m experimenting with additional formats and metadata inspection features.

One thing I found interesting while…