Any suggestions how to delete metadata from photos taken with iphone?

[transphasic]

As the title mentions, I would like to delete all metadata from any photos that I post on social media, any simple/free methods to do so?

I ask because when you hit apple-I for info on the photo in finder, it shows a lot of data, including my phone number, where it was texted to/from, information I don't want on a public soc media site.

 

[chown33]

Are you posting the pics from a Mac? I'm asking because this is the "Mac basics" forum. If you're posting from your iPhone, then I can move this thread to an iPhone forum.

 

[transphasic]

Are you posting the pics from a Mac? I'm asking because this is the "Mac basics" forum. If you're posting from your iPhone, then I can move this thread to an iPhone forum.

I took the photo with an iphone, but transferred them to my mac and plan to u/l them to the web from the mac.

 

[Lifeisabeach]

how to remove photo metadata mac at DuckDuckGo

duckduckgo.com

 

[NoBoMac]

Big fan/user of exiftool.

Have not used the GUI, but the command line is mighty powerful. For example, multiple ways to remove all metadata from images.

 

[chown33]

There's a Quick Action to convert images. You can also make your own shortcut using the Shortcuts tool on the Mac.

macOS: How to Quickly Convert Images in Finder

There are many third-party apps available for Mac that will convert images for you, but if you're running macOS Monterey or later, you can...

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Perform quick actions in the Finder on Mac

In a Finder window or on your Mac desktop, perform quick actions on one or more files, like creating a PDF or rotating an image.

support.apple.com

The "Convert Image" dialog presents an option to Preserve Metadata. If you uncheck this, then metadata should be removed, even if you keep the file format the same, e.g. JPEG to JPEG.

Search terms: mac convert image shortcut

 

[ovbacon]

Maybe this is just me but as far as I know photos taken with an iPhone do not show the phone nr of the phone it was taken with or that of nr that it has been texted to or from. It might show coordinates from where the photo was taken (which you can turn off).

 

[bogdanw]

NConvertHEICtoJPEG.scpt uses NConvert to convert HEIC/HEIF files to JPEG and remove metadata.
https://github.com/b0gdanw/AppleScripts/blob/master/NConvertHEICtoJPEG.scpt

 

[arw]

Not relevant for OP but in case someone stumbles upon this thread and wants to remove EXIF data directly on their iPhone/iPad, I use Exif Viewer [paid app].

 

[transphasic]

A big TY to all who responded, I will review each suggestion.

 

[AlixSPQR]

I use ImageOptim. Freeware. Does other useful things too.

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