Take the location out of a photo before you post it.
Every photo you take carries where you were, when, and with what. Right-click it in Finder and Ricly writes a clean copy beside it, with the picture untouched.
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Ricly▸Removing metadataBalcony.jpg · on this MacMetadata removedBalcony-clean.jpg · GPS, EXIF, IPTC goneThis is inside the photo you are about to post.
- GPS 48.8584, 2.2945
- Altitude 34 m
- 14 March 2026, 18:42:07
- Apple iPhone 15 Pro
- Back camera 6.86mm f/1.78
- iOS 19.2
- ISO 400 · f/1.78 · 1/120
That is one photo, straight out of an iPhone, and none of it shows when you look at the picture. Right-click it, pick Strip Metadata, and a clean copy appears beside the original. Which tags are there depends on the phone and its settings — the location almost always is.
See what else comes with itWhat comes out, and what stays in.
The picture itself is never re-encoded for quality. What changes is everything written around it.
GPS, EXIF, IPTC and maker notes
The location, the exact date and time, the camera make and model, the software, the copyright fields, and the manufacturer blocks for Apple, Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, Pentax and Minolta. All of it set to nothing.
Colour and orientation are kept
The ICC profile stays, so the picture looks the same. So does the right way up — the orientation tag lives inside the block that gets wiped, so Ricly puts it back deliberately after cleaning.
A clean copy, not an edit
The result is photo-clean.jpg, next to the original. Your photo is never modified in place, so you keep the version with the date on it if you ever need it.
The picture is not re-encoded
This is not a compression tool. The pixels come out as they went in — only what was written around them is gone.
Same job. No round trip.
The usual answer to this problem is a website that promises to remove your private data — after you send it your photo. Counted the same way as everywhere else on this site.
With Riclyleaves your Mac
WHAT IT REPLACES
Now do it 40 timesFour at a time inside,
one clean copy each
Cleaning one photo is rarely the real job. A shoot, an export folder, a set going online — they all carry the same coordinates. One right-click on the selection gives you one clean copy per file, originals untouched. Doing that on a stripping site means uploading forty photos you were specifically trying to keep to yourself.
Preview can do this, one photo at a time. Tools, Show Inspector, the GPS tab, Remove Location Info. It is built into macOS and it costs nothing — and it removes the location only, leaving the camera, the lens, the software and the maker notes in place. For a single photo before a single post, it is enough. This is the one comparison where the step count is the smaller argument: sending a photo to a stripping site means handing the exact file you were worried about to someone you have never heard of, and taking their word for what they did with it. A screenshot works too, but you lose the resolution.
Nobody needs your address.
A photo posted from home carries the coordinates of your kitchen. Removing them should not require sending the photo to a stranger first.
You came for one tool. 16 more come with it.
Strip Metadata is not an app you install. It is one item in a menu that also carries 16 others — same download, same account, nothing extra to set up.
13 are free, 4 are Pro. They install themselves as they ship, so the menu grows without you doing anything. HEIC to JPG will convert the iPhone original first if you need it to open anywhere, and Compress Image will bring the clean copy down to mail size.
Free, with no ceiling.
No monthly count on this tool. Privacy behind a paywall would be a strange thing to sell.
- This tool has no monthly count. Clean a whole camera roll if you want to.
- Select a whole folder, right-click once, one clean copy each.
- Eight formats: JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, HEIF, TIFF, TIF and WebP.
- A free account is required, an email address is enough.
€47.88 billed yearly, or €4.99 month to month.
- Pro adds nothing to this tool. It is already unlimited.
- The four Pro tools unlock: Extract Text, Upscale Image, Photo Grid, Batch Rename.
- Upload & Share goes to 20 GB and links last 30 days.
- 30-day trial for new subscribers · payment method required · cancel any time.
Questions people actually ask.
What exactly is removed?
EXIF and EXIF Aux, GPS, IPTC, the TIFF block, JFIF, and the maker-note blocks for Apple, Canon, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Pentax and Fuji. In plain terms: where, when, with what, and by whom.
Does the photo still look the same?
Yes. The colour profile is kept and the pixels are not re-encoded. The orientation is kept too, deliberately — that tag lives inside a block that gets wiped, so Ricly puts it back after cleaning.
Does it change my original?
No. You get a second file called photo-clean.jpg beside it. Run it twice and you get photo-clean 2.jpg — nothing is ever replaced.
Is the photo uploaded to check it?
No, and that is the whole point. Sending a photo somewhere to have its private data removed is the opposite of what you were trying to do. Everything happens on your Mac.
Which formats work?
JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, HEIF, TIFF, TIF and WebP.
Does it remove a watermark or anything visible?
No. Nothing in the picture changes — only the data written around it. What you can see, you keep.
Right Click. Done.
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