The free file is yours. Pro also downloads a removal receipt for it.
OriginalCleaned
No preview for this file. The After list is the result.
Field report
Before
After
Same pixels. Cleared fields are listed here.
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Clean all these images at once
Pro is $8.99, paid once. The set comes back as one ZIP.
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A HEIC from an iPhone carries where you stood, which camera and lens took it, and when. Remove metadata from HEIC here.
What is inside the HEIC
HEIC is a container, like a folder of items. The picture is one item. Camera EXIF (make, model, lens, time, GPS)
sits in another, and XMP can sit in a third. All of that is read from the file in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Apple’s own switch, and where it stops
On an iPhone you can tap Share, then Options, and turn Location off. Apple documents that in
Manage location metadata in Photos.
That covers location in the copy you share. It does not claim to remove the camera model, lens, or any AI
marker. The phone-side steps, and what to do for a photo that came from ChatGPT or Gemini, are on
remove AI metadata from a photo on iPhone.
Before you post
Open the After report. You want “no targeted metadata remaining”, not a count of 0 in your head.
The file name ends in -cleaned.heic.
A Live Photo is a still plus a separate video file. This tool takes the still only; video is not supported.
For a platform label such as Instagram’s AI info, a clean file is necessary only when the signal was metadata. See Remove Instagram AI Info.
A whole camera roll export is one ZIP with Pro; a measured mixed-format run is on
bulk EXIF remover.
Questions
Do I get a HEIC back?
Yes. The clean copy is a HEIC.
Do the pixels change?
No.
Will a portrait photo come out sideways?
The rotation flag stays on the HEIC.
Is the location of my iPhone photo really gone?
The After report is a new scan of the download, and ExifTool found no GPS tags in our test downloads. Apple’s own Share sheet has an Options switch that leaves location out of a shared copy; the tool is for when you want a file with all of it gone.
Can I clean a whole camera roll export?
One image is free. Pro is a one-time unlock for unlimited images and a single ZIP of cleaned files, so a folder of HEICs is one run.
Does this remove the AI label from a HEIC?
It removes file metadata such as an AI DigitalSourceType or a C2PA manifest. It does not remove a pixel watermark and it cannot force a platform to drop its own label.
Remove metadata HEIC photos
Remove metadata HEIC files carry, including GPS and camera tags, in the browser.