Remove AI Metadata & Protect Your Privacy
Detect and clean AI-generated tags, inject custom metadata, or apply camera presets to your images and videos. Everything runs locally in your browser — your files never leave your device.
AI Tag Detection & Removal
Detect and strip AI metadata from Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, Midjourney, Gemini, Firefly & more
14+ Camera Presets
iPhone, Samsung, Canon, Sony, Nikon, DJI, GoPro, Ray-Ban Meta and more templates
Full Metadata Strip
Remove all EXIF, XMP, IPTC, C2PA data — or selectively clean only AI tags
Images & Videos
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, MP4, MOV — process any media format instantly
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What is Image & Video Metadata?
Every digital photo and video carries hidden data known as metadata. This includes EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format), IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council), and XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) data. Metadata can contain information such as the camera make and model, GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken, the date and time, lens specifications, ISO settings, software used for editing, author name, and copyright information.
While metadata serves useful purposes for photographers and content creators — like organizing photo libraries and proving ownership — it can also be a significant privacy risk. When you share photos online, you may inadvertently reveal your exact location, your daily routines, or the devices you use.
Our tool gives you full control over this hidden data, allowing you to inspect, clean, modify, or replace metadata before sharing your media with the world.
Why Remove AI-Generated Metadata?
AI-generated images created by tools like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, and others often embed telltale metadata that identifies the content as artificially generated. This includes the C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity)standard, XMP tags containing "AI" markers, software identifiers like "Stable Diffusion" or "DALL-E", and prompt data embedded in the image file.
Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and X (Twitter) are increasingly using these metadata markers to flag and label content as "AI-generated." While transparency is important, there are legitimate reasons you might want to remove these tags:
- You've used AI as a tool in a creative workflow and the final result is your own artistic work
- You've made significant manual edits to an AI-assisted image
- The metadata is incorrect or was added in error
- You want to share images without platform-specific AI labels
- Privacy concerns about embedded generation parameters
AI Metadata Cleaner detects and removes these AI-specific tags while optionally preserving other useful metadata like camera settings and copyright information.
How Does AI Metadata Cleaner Work?
1. Upload & Analyze
Drop your image or video file. Our tool instantly reads and displays all embedded metadata, highlighting any AI-related tags it detects.
2. Choose Action
Clean AI tags only, strip all metadata, apply a camera preset template, or add your own custom metadata fields like author and copyright.
3. Download
Your processed file is ready instantly. Download it with clean metadata. No account needed, no uploads to any server.
Key Features
100% Private & Secure
All processing happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your files never leave your device — zero server uploads, zero data collection.
Instant Processing
No waiting for server responses. Files are processed in milliseconds using your device's processing power.
Camera Presets
Apply metadata from popular cameras like iPhone 16 Pro, Canon EOS R5, Sony A7 IV, Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, and many more.
Smart AI Detection
Automatically detects AI-generated content markers including C2PA, XMP AI tags, Stable Diffusion prompts, and DALL-E signatures.
Supported File Formats
AI Metadata Cleaner supports the most widely-used image and video formats:
Images
- JPEG / JPG — Full EXIF, XMP, and IPTC support
- PNG — Text chunk metadata cleaning
- WebP — Metadata stripping via canvas redraw
- HEIC / HEIF — Apple format with auto JPEG conversion
Videos
- MP4 — Container metadata cleaning
- MOV — QuickTime metadata support