This particular post was spurred after talking with a friend about the truly bizarro ongoing saga of John McAfee, whose “secret” location was exposed because someone forgot to strip the EXIF data from the image or, perhaps easier, didn’t turn off Location data on the iPhone camera before they took the picture. If you follow internet culture you may be aware of various incidents where metadata stored in images has led to various news reports or other curious happenstances. In this before and after image, the before image on the left shows the EXIF metadata intact on a photo, and the after image on the right shows the EXIF metadata has been successfully removed via the ImageOptim app. Click the (i) tab, there should be no “EXIF” tab, or the contents of the EXIF tag should be limited to only image dimensions with no other data stored.Pull down the “Tool” menu and select “Show Inspector”.Open the image in question with Preview on the Mac.
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If you want to be certain that EXIF metadata has been removed from the picture(s), you can use Mac OS X’s Preview app to double-check:
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How to Confirm Image File No Longer Has EXIF Metadata on a Mac
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The end result will be smaller file sizes without losing image quality, and also the images will be stripped of all meta data like GPS location, origination, time taken, aperture and camera details, and more. That’s how easy EXIF is to remove, just by dragging and dropping image files into the ImageOptim app on the Mac they will go through the compression and EXIF metadata removal process. JPEG and GIF are quite fast, but PNG files will typically take a bit longer to strip metadata and EXIF data from. Most images are optimized and stripped fairly quickly, but using this to remove EXIF from huge amounts of photos or very large resolution images may take a little while to complete. Drag the picture(s) you want to strip EXIF data from into the open app window to begin the EXIF removal process.Launch ImageOptim on the Mac, and put the window somewhere that offers easy visual access.Ready to strip metadata from some image files on the Mac? Here is all you need to do: Removing All EXIF Data from Image Files in Mac OS
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In that process of optimizing a photo, ImageOptim also strips EXIF data and metadata from the picture and image file(s) in question.
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ImageOptim is a free Mac tool we’ve discussed before that compresses and optimizes images as well. EXIF data includes meta data, GPS coordinates, originator information, and more, and by stripping the EXIF metadata from the image file the photo will no longer have that information bundled with the file itself.įor our purposes here we’re going to use a third party tool called ImageOptim, which allows EXIF data to be easily removed. This tutorial will show you how to remove all EXIF data from pictures you choose to on a Mac in a nice quick and easy manner.