--- title: "Remove Metadata from Video Online, Free | metadata.video" description: "Strip GPS location, device, dates and every hidden tag from an MP4, MOV or MKV without re-encoding. Free, no watermark, and the video never leaves your device." url: https://metadata.video/remove-metadata-from-video --- Free · runs in your browser # Remove all metadata from a video Clear the location, phone model, recording date, software tags and telemetry from a clip in one step. The picture and sound are copied untouched. To remove metadata from a video, open it here, press **Remove all metadata** and then **Download new file**. The new copy has no GPS position, no phone or camera model, no recording date, no software tags, no XMP and no Content Credentials, while its video and audio streams are exactly the ones you started with. Before you press anything, the **Privacy** section shows what the clip gives away and rates each item High, Medium or Low, so you can see whether there is anything to worry about. If you only want the location gone and would like to keep the date and camera, use [remove location from video](https://metadata.video/remove-location-from-video) instead. All of it happens in your browser. The video is not uploaded, there is no account and no watermark, and an MP4 or MOV of any size is rewritten in about a second because only the small metadata boxes change. ## How to remove metadata from a video 1. ### Open the video Drop the file on **Drop a video or photo here** or press **Open a file** (Ctrl/Cmd+O). MP4, MOV, M4V, 3GP, MKV, WebM, AVI and MPEG-TS can all be cleaned. 2. ### Check what it reveals The page opens on **Privacy**, which lists “What this file reveals”: exact location, serial numbers or owner names, date and time, device model and editing software. 3. ### Remove everything Press **Remove all metadata**. Tick **Keep chapters** if the video has chapter markers you want to keep. On a phone the same option is under **Edit & clean**. 4. ### Download the clean copy Press **Download new file** (Ctrl/Cmd+S). When “Your new file is ready” appears, **What changed** lists every field that was removed, found by reading the new file back. 5. ### Check it again Press **Inspect new file** to open the copy in the viewer. **Privacy** should now show nothing rated High, and **Location** should say there is no location in the file. ## What a phone video gives away A clip straight from a phone or action camera usually carries forty or more fields alongside the picture. Most are harmless, but a few say exactly where you were, which device you own and when. Apple’s own help notes that sharing a photo or video from Photos includes its date and time, location, device and captions. Before and after: the original clip holds location, device, dates, software and telemetry around the video and audio streams; the cleaned copy keeps the same streams with the metadata gone. __Typical fields in a phone or camera video and what happens to each.__ | What | Where it is stored | After **Remove all metadata** | | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------- | | GPS position (and on some phones altitude and accuracy) | iPhone: com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709; Android and cameras: ©xyz or loci; XMP | Removed | | Phone or camera make and model, lens, software version | QuickTime keys, ©mak/©mod, vendor boxes | Removed | | Recording date and time zone | creationdate key, movie and track headers | Removed; header dates set to “unknown” | | Editing app and encoder | ©too, encoder tags, XMP history | Removed | | GPS and sensor telemetry (GoPro, DJI, dash cams) | A separate data track | Track data overwritten with zeros | | Content Credentials (C2PA) | A manifest box | Removed | | Title, comment, artist, cover art | User data and item list | Removed | | Chapters | Chapter track or list | Removed, unless **Keep chapters** is ticked | To see a single field before you decide, the viewer explains each one with the ⓘ next to it. [Where was this video taken](https://metadata.video/where-was-this-video-taken) goes into the location fields in depth. ## What removing metadata cannot do Metadata is the data about the video, not the video. Anything you can see or hear is part of the streams, and those are copied as they are. * **Faces, places and signs** in the picture, and voices or names in the sound, stay exactly as recorded. * **Burned-in timestamps**, such as the date printed on dash-cam or CCTV footage, are pixels, not metadata. * **Invisible watermarks** that some AI video tools add to the pixels are untouched, and this tool cannot detect them. * **Copyright and duplicate detection** on YouTube, TikTok and similar sites match the picture and sound, so stripping tags does not hide a clip from them. * **The file name and your computer’s dates.** `IMG_0412.MOV` hints at an iPhone; rename the download if that matters. Created and modified dates belong to your file system, not the video. A clip you have already posted or sent is out of your hands. Cleaning your copy only protects the next time you share it, so it is worth doing before a video leaves your device. ## Lossless: how the file is rewritten Re-encoding a video to get rid of its metadata, as many converters do, costs quality and time. metadata.video avoids it. How the new file is written depends on the container: An MP4 or MOV file: a small moov box of descriptions and tags, where metadata lives, next to a large mdat box holding the compressed video and audio. Removal rewrites the moov box and leaves mdat alone. __How each container is cleaned.__ | Container | How it is cleaned | Time | | -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | | MP4, MOV, M4V, 3GP | Only the metadata boxes are rewritten; the streams stay byte for byte | About a second, any size | | MKV, WebM | Stream copy with ffmpeg.wasm (\-c copy): no re-encode, but the container is rebuilt | Depends on file size | | AVI, MPEG-TS, others | Stream copy with ffmpeg.wasm; these hold little metadata to begin with | Depends on file size | The result is usually a few kilobytes smaller than the original, because the tags, maker boxes and sometimes a cover image are no longer in it. If the copy were megabytes smaller, something would have been re-encoded; here it never is. ffmpeg.wasm is about 10 MB and is loaded from this site only when an MKV or similar file needs it. ## Other ways to remove video metadata ### On iPhone In iOS 26, tap Share in Photos, tap **Options** and turn off **Location** before sending. That removes only the location; the device and date still go with the file. Apple’s iOS 27 sharing page no longer lists this switch, so the [iPhone location guide](https://metadata.video/remove-location-from-video-iphone) also covers removing the location from the video itself. ### On Windows Right-click the video, choose **Properties**, open **Details** and click **Remove Properties and Personal Information**. It works on the properties Windows can write for that file type, which for MP4 is a short list, so location, device and telemetry data it does not show can stay in the file. Check the result in the viewer if it matters. ### With ffmpeg `ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -c copy -fflags +bitexact output.mp4` `-map_metadata -1` stops global and stream tags being copied, `-map_chapters -1` drops chapters, `-c copy` copies the streams without re-encoding, and `+bitexact` stops ffmpeg adding its own encoder tag. By default ffmpeg keeps one video and one audio stream, so a GoPro-style telemetry track is left out unless you map it. The [ffprobe guide](https://metadata.video/how-to-use-ffprobe) shows how to check what is left. ### With ExifTool `exiftool -all= input.mp4` ExifTool deletes the tag groups it can write and keeps a backup named `input.mp4_original`. It edits tags rather than removing whole tracks, so check that any GPS or sensor track has gone before you rely on the result. ## Removing video metadata: questions ### Does removing metadata lower the video’s quality? No. The video and audio streams are copied, not re-encoded, so every frame and every sample is identical. Only the descriptive boxes around them change. ### Will removing metadata stop copyright detection? No. Content matching systems compare the picture and sound, not the tags, so a cleaned file is recognised just like the original. ### Does it remove the “AI-generated” label? It removes Content Credentials (C2PA) and other tags where AI tools record their involvement. Invisible watermarks in the pixels stay, and platforms that look for them may still label the video. The [AI video guide](https://metadata.video/is-this-video-ai) explains the difference. ### Why is the new file slightly smaller? The metadata boxes, any maker data and any cover image are gone. A difference of a few kilobytes is normal; the streams themselves are the same size. ### Does it change the date my computer shows for the file? The download is a new file, so your computer gives it today’s date. The recording date inside the video is removed. To set a specific date instead, use [change video date](https://metadata.video/change-video-date). ### Can I remove metadata from a video on my iPhone? Yes. Open this page in Safari, tap **Open a file** and choose the video from Photos or Files. **Download new file** saves the clean copy, and **Share** sends it on or saves it back to Photos. ### Do WhatsApp and Instagram remove video metadata anyway? Many apps strip some fields, but few say exactly which. See [do apps remove video metadata](https://metadata.video/do-apps-remove-video-metadata) for what vendors state and how to test an app yourself. ### Can I edit some fields instead of removing everything? Yes. The [video metadata editor](https://metadata.video/video-metadata-editor) lets you change the title, date, location, make and model and more, and download the result the same lossless way. ## Related metadata guides * [ Video metadata viewer See, explain, edit and remove everything a video or photo says about itself. ](https://metadata.video/) * [ Remove location from a video Clear GPS tags and location tracks from a clip while keeping its date, camera and title. ](https://metadata.video/remove-location-from-video) * [ Remove location from iPhone photos and videos Turn off Camera location, use Adjust Location and No Location in Photos, and share without location. ](https://metadata.video/remove-location-from-video-iphone) * [ Do apps remove video metadata? What Discord, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram and others say about stripping metadata, and how to test. ](https://metadata.video/do-apps-remove-video-metadata) * [ Edit video metadata Change title, date, location, camera and track fields without re-encoding the video. ](https://metadata.video/video-metadata-editor) * [ Find where a video was taken Read a video’s GPS location and see it on a map, with altitude, accuracy and country. ](https://metadata.video/where-was-this-video-taken) * [ Remove metadata from a photo Strip EXIF, GPS and XMP from JPEG, PNG, WebP and HEIC images without re-compressing them. ](https://metadata.video/remove-metadata-from-photo)