What is EXIF Data?
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a set of hidden metadata attached to almost every digital image. While useful for professional photographers, it can be a privacy risk for everyone else. It typically contains:
- Exact GPS Coordinates
- Device & Lens Model
Privacy for AI Artists
Images generated via Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or DALL-E often embed your full prompt, seed numbers, and settings inside the file metadata.
- Protect Your Prompts: Prevent others from extracting the exact text "secret sauce" you used to create your art.
- Remove AI Signatures: Purge software identifiers and unique generation IDs that link images back to your account.
Why you should clear it?
When you share a photo/image on social media or anywhere on internet, anyone can download it and extract the GPS data and other hidden information related to image creation. This allows strangers to understand how and where you created the particular photo/image, and maybe even find your home address, your workplace, or the location of your children's school.
Even if you don't share location, AI artists often want to keep their workflow private. Stripping metadata is the only way to ensure total sovereignty over your digital files.
Privacy Note: This tool redraws your image onto a HTML5 canvas, which destroys all hidden metadata (EXIF). Like all ShasLab tools, this happens 100% in your browser. Your image is never uploaded to a server.