Privacy & Metadata
How to Share Photos Privately Online: Safety Checklist
A practical checklist for sharing photos without oversharing: strip location data, use unlisted links, set expiry and know how to delete what you shared.
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Privacy & Metadata
What your photos reveal before anyone looks at them: EXIF data, GPS location and camera details, which apps remove them and which do not, and how to share pictures without giving away where you live.
Privacy & Metadata
What Is EXIF Data? What Your Photos Reveal
EXIF data stores camera, date and often GPS location inside your photos. Learn what it contains, who can read it and how to remove it before sharing.
· 9 min read
Privacy & Metadata: quick guide
Most phone photos carry hidden EXIF data: the camera model, the date and time, and often the GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken. Anyone who receives the original file can read it with free tools.
Some apps remove this data when you share, and others pass the original file on unchanged. The safe habit is to remove metadata yourself before posting a photo publicly, and to check what is visible in the picture itself, such as house numbers, documents and number plates.
Free tools used in these guides
Everything runs in your browser except the uploader, and nothing needs an account.
- Image to URL: upload a picture and get a direct link, HTML, BBCode or Markdown, with location data removed.
- Image compressor: make JPG, PNG and WebP files smaller in your browser, or hit a size such as 100 KB.
- Resize image: set an exact size like 1080 × 1080, a width or a percentage.
- HEIC to JPG: convert iPhone photos so they open everywhere.
- Remove EXIF: see and strip GPS location, camera and date from photos.
- Image to Base64: turn small images into data URIs for HTML and CSS.