Free browser tool
Clean your GPT or Nano Banana image before you post it on X
A ChatGPT or Nano Banana image ships with a signed Content Credentials record, and one from Stable Diffusion or ComfyUI carries your full prompt and seed. X reads that record when you upload. Drop your image below to see exactly what yours is carrying, then strip it in one click.
Processed in your browser — the file never leaves your device. It removes metadata, not watermarks drawn into the pixels.
Made by PixAI, the anime AI art platform used by millions of creators.
Scan and strip your image
Pick an image and the scanner reads its metadata blocks in place. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and the cleaned copy is rebuilt from pixels only.
Drop an image here, or pick one from your device.
JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF or TIFF, up to 40 MB.
Pick an image and the scanner reads its metadata blocks in place. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and the cleaned copy is rebuilt from pixels only.
What this file is telling people
Decoded from the file itself, in your browser.
Output settings
Lossless. Best for AI art, screenshots and flat colour; the file may get larger.
Rebuilt from pixels, so nothing identifying survives: no EXIF, GPS, XMP or generator tags.
Your image stays on your device. Only you ever see it.
Before you post it
Your cleaned file has no Content Credentials, no generator tags, no embedded prompt and no EXIF, so X has nothing to read on upload. Two things it cannot do: SynthID stays in the pixels, and so does any watermark drawn into the picture.
Suggested post
Cleaned the Content Credentials and prompt off this before posting — free, runs entirely in the browser: pixai.art/en/tools/exif-remover
X scans uploads for Content Credentials and labels the post when it finds them. Cleaning the file first is the part you control; what the platform does with the pixels is not.
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The free tool you just used is built by PixAI
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How to remove AI metadata before posting on X
Four steps, no install, nothing uploaded.
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Add your image
Drop a file onto the tool or pick one from your device. JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF and TIFF all work.
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Read what it found
The scanner lists every metadata block in the file and decodes the identifying ones: the generator and its embedded prompt, Content Credentials, and on a photo the camera, capture time and GPS coordinates.
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Pick your output format
PNG stays lossless, which suits AI art and screenshots. JPEG re-compresses once and keeps photos small. WebP splits the difference.
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Download the cleaned copy
The tool redraws your image onto a canvas and encodes a brand-new file from the pixels. Metadata cannot survive that, so the download starts with none.
Why drawing an image to a canvas erases its metadata
An image file is two different things stapled together. One part is the compressed pixel data — the picture. The other is a stack of metadata containers wrapped around it: EXIF for camera settings and GPS, XMP for editing history, IPTC for captions and credits, JUMBF or PNG text chunks for Content Credentials, plus whatever proprietary block the camera maker felt like adding. None of it affects what the image looks like, which is exactly why it survives being copied, emailed and re-saved without anyone noticing.
A canvas element holds only the first of those two. When the browser decodes your file, it hands the canvas a plain grid of red, green, blue and alpha values, and every container around it is left behind at the door. Ask that canvas to encode a file and the browser writes a new one from the grid — new headers, new compressed pixel data, and nothing else, because nothing else was ever there. This is why the approach also works on metadata standards the tool has never heard of: it does not need to recognise a block in order to drop it.
The one tag that does change what you see is orientation. A phone stores its photos in whatever direction the sensor read them and adds an EXIF tag saying which way is up, which is why a photo sometimes appears rotated in one app and upright in another. The browser applies that tag while decoding, so the pixels reaching the canvas are already the right way round. Dropping the tag afterwards is therefore not a loss — the rotation has moved from a note about the image into the image itself, and every viewer that opens the cleaned file will agree on it.
When you need this
What creators are actually cleaning before they hit post.
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Posting a GPT or Nano Banana image on X
Since early 2026 X has scanned uploads for Content Credentials and the IPTC digital source type, and labels the post when it finds them — whether or not you said anything. Instagram’s "AI Info" label works off the same fields. Stripping them puts the disclosure back in your hands instead of the file’s.
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Sharing work from Stable Diffusion or ComfyUI
A WebUI PNG carries your entire prompt, negative prompt, seed and model in one plain-text chunk, and a ComfyUI PNG carries the whole node graph. Anyone who downloads it can reproduce your image exactly, or just read what you typed.
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Sending a file to a client
Camera bodies stamp their serial number, and editors add their own history. A cleaned copy shows the work without the paperwork behind it.
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Fixing a sideways photo
An image that looks upright in one app and rotated in another is arguing about its EXIF orientation tag. This tool bakes the rotation into the pixels and drops the tag, so every viewer agrees.
What this tool does not do
Worth knowing before you rely on it.
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It does not remove SynthID or a visible logo
Both Google and, since 2026, OpenAI embed SynthID — an invisible watermark carried in the pixels themselves, which is exactly what this tool preserves. Google’s own detectors still read it after a metadata strip, and the same goes for any logo drawn into the picture. What this removes is the metadata wrapped around the pixels, not the pixels.
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JPEG output is re-compressed
There is no lossless path through a canvas, so choosing JPEG costs one generation of quality. Choose PNG when file size is not the constraint and the image matters more.
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The colour profile goes too
The canvas works in sRGB, so a wide-gamut image is converted on the way through. That is invisible for most images and most screens, and it is the same trade every browser-based editor makes.
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It cannot un-share what you posted
Cleaning a file changes the copy you download from here. A version you already uploaded somewhere is a separate file on someone else's server, with its metadata intact.
Open this tool on your phone
Editing on a phone is often easier for touch drawing. Scan the code or copy the link.
https://pixai.art/en/tools/exif-remover
On a phone already? Just start above.
Questions about AI metadata and EXIF removal
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The scan and the rebuild both happen in your browser, on your device. There is no upload step in this tool, which you can confirm by opening your browser's network panel while you use it — you will see the page load and nothing else.
What exactly is EXIF data?
EXIF is a block of tags a camera or editor writes into an image file: make and model, lens, exposure, ISO, the date and time of capture, an orientation flag, often the body's serial number, and on a phone, GPS coordinates. It rides along invisibly and stays there through copies and re-saves.
Does removing EXIF change how my image looks?
Not if you export as PNG, which is lossless — the pixels are identical. JPEG and WebP re-compress once, which is normally invisible at quality 92 but is a real change. Orientation is baked in either way, so a photo that displayed sideways somewhere will now display correctly everywhere.
Do social networks not strip metadata already?
Most do strip EXIF when they process an upload, and some keep parts of it. Either way, the stripping happens after your original file has been sent to their servers and stored there. Cleaning the file before you upload it is the only part of that chain you decide.
Does this remove the AI watermark from a GPT or Nano Banana image?
It removes the metadata half and not the pixel half, and the difference matters. Content Credentials, the C2PA manifest, the IPTC digital source type and any generator name in EXIF or XMP all sit outside the pixel data, so the canvas rebuild drops every one of them. SynthID does not: it is woven into the pixels, both Google and OpenAI now embed it, and no re-encode removes it. Any tool claiming otherwise is overselling. A visible logo is pixels too, so it also stays.
Can I remove the GPS location but keep the camera settings?
Not with this tool. The canvas approach is all or nothing by design — that is what makes it reliable against blocks nobody has catalogued yet. Selective editing needs a tag-level editor that rewrites the EXIF block rather than discarding it.
Does it work on RAW files like CR2 or ARW?
Only if your browser can decode them, and most cannot. Export a JPEG, PNG or TIFF from your RAW editor first, then clean that. The RAW original keeps its metadata, which is usually what you want for your own archive.
Is there a limit on image size?
Files up to 40 MB are accepted. Very large images are scaled to fit the browser's canvas limit of roughly 16.7 million pixels, and the tool tells you the output dimensions when that happens.
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