The ICC profile is not personal data — it controls how colours are displayed. Remove it and colours can look washed out.
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What is actually inside a photo?
Every camera and every phone writes extra information into the file at the moment you press the shutter: the date, the camera model, the exposure settings — and, if location services are on, the GPS coordinates. Send a photo taken at home, or post it to a forum, and you may be handing over your address with it.
Why not just save it again?
Because that costs quality. A JPEG you open and re-save is compressed a second time, and a little worse each round. This tool cuts out the metadata segments instead and leaves the image data byte for byte untouched.
What gets removed?
| EXIF (APP1) | camera, lens, date, exposure, GPS |
| XMP | edit history, keywords, authorship |
| IPTC (APP13) | editorial fields, captions |
| Comments | free text anyone added |
| PNG text chunks | tEXt, iTXt, zTXt, eXIf, tIME |
| ICC colour profile | only if you explicitly untick it |
How many images at once?
As many as you like — drag in the whole folder. Every image gets its own row with its own save button, and below them sits one button that saves all of them together as a ZIP file.
Saving them one by one is the faster route, especially on a phone. A ZIP has to be unpacked there first, and while packing it the browser briefly holds every image in memory at once — with a lot of large photos that can be too much for it. So the button tells you how big the archive will be before you press it.
Is the file still usable?
Yes. The JFIF segment that JPEG files need for compatibility stays, and so do all image and colour tables. What gets removed is only what describes the picture — never what draws it.