What's actually in a photo's metadata

Most photos from phones and cameras carry hidden EXIF metadata alongside the visible image: the exact camera/phone model, the date and time taken, camera settings, and — if location services were on — precise GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken. None of that is visible when you look at the photo, but it travels with the file wherever you send it.

This tool redraws your photo onto a blank canvas and re-encodes it from scratch. Canvas-rendered output contains only pixel data — none of the original file's metadata carries over, because the browser's Canvas API has no mechanism to copy it. The visible image itself is unchanged; only the hidden data is gone. Everything happens locally — your photo, and whatever metadata it contains, is never uploaded anywhere.