How to remove EXIF data from photos with your Mac: two methods

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Our photos hold enormous amounts of information that is invisible to the naked eye. This is metadata (called EXIF) that collects aspects about the time, place and device that took the image and that at a given time you may want to remove. Therefore, let’s see how to remove EXIF data from photos with the Mac .

It’s a tutorial similar to the one we saw a few days ago where we showed how to remove this data from an iPhone. So if this topic interests you, don’t forget to take a look at it.

Remove EXIF data from a photo with Preview on Mac

You’ll like this trick if you’re into keyboard shortcuts. Because you can do it almost without looking at the screen of your Mac. Follow these steps:

• Open the photo you want to remove the EXIF data from.
• Press cmd + A to select the full image.
• Press cmd + C to copy that selection.
• Create a new Preview file with cmd + N, which will show the image you just copied.
• Press cmd + S to save the new file and select the desired format.
• Check that the EXIF data has been removed from your photo with cmd + I to launch the inspector.

And that’s it. With this simple trick you’ve removed all the EXIF data from your photo from your Mac. No third-party apps or cloud services. Although the catch is that we have to do it one at a time and not with several photos at once. That’s why we have a solution.

Remove EXIF data from multiple photos with ImageOptim for Mac

There is a way to remove this metadata from several of your photos at once , without having to resort to a web service. To do this, we’ll use the ImageOptim app for Mac, which is also free. Once you have it installed, follow these steps:

• Prepare the photos you want to delete their EXIF data from and open ImageOptim.
• Drag them into the app and wait for them to work their “magic”.
• Select the images again and drag them to a folder.
• Open them with Preview, press cmd + I to open the inspector and check that the EXIF data has disappeared.

The end. With this free app you can remove this metadata as many times as you want and quickly. Now you can share your photos without having to give away all the information contained in the EXIF data in your file.

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