What your files say about you
A photo straight from a phone usually records the exact GPS position where it was taken, the phone model and the time to the second. Videos do the same, and PDFs often carry the author's name, company and the software that made them. Start with the EXIF viewer to see what a file contains, then clean it with the metadata remover, which handles photos, videos and PDFs in one place. There are dedicated pages for videos and PDFs too.
Some details are in the picture itself, not in the metadata. Blur and pixelate hides faces, number plates, addresses and screens before you post a photo.
A quick privacy check before you share
- Open the photo, video or PDF in the EXIF viewer and look for a location, names or a device serial number.
- Clean anything you don't want to share with the metadata remover. It checks the result again before marking it clean.
- Look at the picture itself: faces, number plates, house numbers, screens and documents in the background. Hide them with blur and pixelate.
- For PDFs, also check the pages. Delete pages with account numbers or internal notes before sending.
Why privacy tools should never upload your file
A metadata remover that uploads your photo has already shared the location you wanted to hide. KitFuse cleans files inside your browser and re-scans every result before marking it clean, so you can see that the data is gone. Cleaning is lossless for JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, HEIC, AVIF and video: the picture and sound are not re-encoded. Learn more in our guide to what photo metadata is.
Frequently asked questions
Do social networks remove location data?
Big networks usually strip it from the public copy, but the original is uploaded first, and files sent by email, cloud links or as documents keep everything. Cleaning first is the safe option.
Does removing metadata change how my photo looks?
No. The colour profile and rotation flag are kept by default so the picture looks the same, and neither identifies you.