Free AI Image Metadata Remover
Strip C2PA Content Credentials, AI generation labels, and prompt data from an image, while leaving your camera info, copyright, and image quality untouched.
What gets removed
The same Gemini image, before and after cleaning. Four provenance signals, then none.
Gemini_Generated_Image.png
1.2 MB · 1024 × 1024 · PNG
AI metadata detected
The original file carries a signed Content Credential naming Google as the generator.
No AI markers found
The cleaned file keeps its five technical tags and nothing that points to AI.
Removed
- C2PA manifest and signature
- Digital source type label
- Recorded C2PA actions
- Claim generator
Kept
- Every pixel, unchanged
- Camera, copyright, and GPS
- File format and quality
How the cleaning works
Three steps, all local to your device.
- 01
Scan
The file is read in your browser and every embedded field is listed, separating AI provenance data from everything you probably want to keep.
- 02
Edit
Only the containers holding AI data are dropped or blanked: the C2PA manifest, AI labels inside XMP, and generation text chunks. Compressed pixel data is copied across untouched.
- 03
Verify
The cleaned output is read back and the remaining AI signal count is reported, so you are not taking our word for it.
Cleaning a file does not remove a watermark. Invisible marks such as Google's SynthID are encoded into the pixels themselves, so they survive metadata stripping, format conversion, and screenshotting entirely. The viewer explains what that means for a file, and our Gemini Watermark Remover handles the visible sparkle logo, which is pixel data too.
Disclosure rules and platform policies
Before you strip anything, it is worth knowing when keeping AI metadata is the better move.
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Frequently asked questions
- Does this remove all my metadata, or only the AI parts?
- Only the AI parts, by default. It removes C2PA Content Credentials, the IPTC DigitalSourceType label, generation parameters, and generator names, while leaving camera settings, copyright, GPS, and the color profile in place. A second mode is available if you do want everything gone.
- Will this affect image quality?
- Not in the default AI-only mode. JPEG, PNG, and WEBP files are edited at the container level, so the compressed pixel data is copied across byte for byte and nothing is re-encoded. The "all metadata" mode does re-encode, which changes file size and pixel bytes slightly.
- Does this remove C2PA Content Credentials?
- Yes. The C2PA manifest lives in a dedicated container (an APP11 segment in JPEG, a caBX chunk in PNG, a C2PA chunk in WebP), and that container is dropped entirely. Note that a signature is also invalidated by any edit, so a re-encoded image shows as unverified even when the manifest is left in place.
- Which formats can be cleaned without re-encoding?
- JPEG, PNG, and WEBP. AVIF cannot currently be edited in place, so those files fall back to a full re-encode that removes all metadata; the tool tells you when that happens.