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title: Strip EXIF and location data from photos on a Mac
source: https://arazioformac.com/docs/tools/strip-metadata
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# Strip Metadata

Removes EXIF and similar fields: the camera, the lens, the timestamp and, on a photo from a phone, usually the exact location it was taken. Worth doing to anything before you publish it.

## How to reach it

Pick the file up in Finder, hold Option, and let go toward **Strip Metadata**.

## What it accepts

Any audio or image or pdf or video file Arazio reads: 3GP, AAC, AIFF, AVI, AVIF, BMP, FLAC, FLV, GIF, HEIC, ICO, JPG, M4A, M4V, MKV, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, OGG, Opus, PDF, PNG, TIFF, WAV, WebM, WebP, WMV.

## What it writes

A new file in the same format, beside the original.