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Edit image metadata

Check and change five text fields in a JPEG without recompressing the image.

  • Runs in your browser
  • No upload
  • Check before download

JPEG · five text fields · no recompression

One .jpg or .jpeg file up to 25 MiB with at most 1 MiB of metadata. Other formats and malformed metadata are rejected before editing.

Choose one JPEG

Exactly one .jpg or .jpeg, up to 25 MiB, with at most 1 MiB of metadata. Other formats and malformed metadata are rejected before editing.

IDLE — Choose one JPEG to begin.

Or drop images here. You can also focus this area and paste an image.

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What this tool changes and preserves

This changes embedded photo data, not automatically the file name, the operating system modification date, or the sorting in your gallery. Location data is not removed this way.

This tool does not remove location data or personal details. Removing them is an explicitly different action: Remove personal metadata

A real JPEG edited with Refentra

Download both files and inspect them yourself. The result was created in this editor from the original synthetic image. Refentra changed the five values below while its validation kept the 1536 × 1024 dimensions, decoded RGB pixels, and encoded JPEG scan identical.

Original synthetic example showing three potted plants
Original JPEG · 194,991 bytes
Five editable EXIF fields blank
Pixel-identical edited example showing the same three potted plants
Refentra-edited JPEG · 195,245 bytes
Same dimensions, decoded RGB pixels, and JPEG scan
Image description
Three sample plants
Artist
Refentra example
Copyright
Illustrative demo credit not legal ownership
Date taken
2026:09:09 12:00:00 (fictional)
User comment
Synthetic sample no customer data
Watch the edit and validation

Short version · Captions and transcript

This editor changes only those five EXIF text fields. To remove GPS or other private metadata, use the metadata remover. Need to clean a PNG or WebP? The batch converter re-encodes the image, normalizes orientation and colors, and removes metadata; it does not preserve JPEG bytes byte for byte. Open the PNG converter. Changing Date taken here does not change the visible picture or the downloaded file's file-system timestamp.

Synthetic example created for Refentra with AI on September 9, 2026. The pair was checked independently with Pillow 12.2.0; the example does not establish copyright ownership or historical capture time.

Need help choosing or checking the fields?

Use the step-by-step JPEG metadata editing guide for a worked example, date caveats, and an independent verification command.

How to edit image metadata

  1. Choose your image

    Select a JPEG file from your device.

  2. Edit the fields

    Inspect the existing EXIF text fields and update them, such as description or author.

  3. Save

    Save the file with updated metadata to your device.

Frequently asked questions

Which metadata can I edit?

Exactly five EXIF fields in one JPEG: ImageDescription, Artist, Copyright, DateTimeOriginal and UserComment. GPS, orientation, camera details, XMP and IPTC are preserved; this is not a privacy cleanup. Date taken uses YYYY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS. Other programs may display unchanged XMP/IPTC values.

Is the image re-compressed?

No. Only the metadata is rewritten; the image pixels are not re-encoded and image quality stays unchanged.

Are the images uploaded?

No. Editing runs locally in your browser, with no upload.

Tips & guides

Edit photo metadata

Step-by-step help for the task behind this tool, with sources and limits.

Read the guide