Phone videos carry the spot where you pressed record, your phone model and the date. See what's in yours, then download a copy without it. The video itself isn't touched.
Only the metadata is read and rewritten, in your browser. The video is never uploaded.or drop it here. Only the metadata is read, so large files are fine.
The video itself isn’t re-encoded, so quality stays exactly the same. Content Credentials and AI labels are kept.
For the pixel-level SynthID watermark, also check the video at Google's SynthID Detector.
To remove metadata from a video, drop an MP4 or MOV file above to see its location, phone model and dates, then click Remove location and phone details. The cleaner blanks those fields in place, so the video and sound stay bit-for-bit identical and large files take seconds. Checking is free; cleaning your own videos is part of Pro, and you can try it on the example first.
| Kept | Removed |
|---|---|
| The video and audio, untouched | GPS location (Apple, Android and 3GPP formats) |
| Content Credentials and AI labels | Phone or camera make and model |
| Resolution, length and codec details | Recording, creation and modification dates |
| Software version, title, author and comment fields |
The report shows each item before you clean, so you can see what you'd be sharing. The encoder name some apps write inside the video stream itself stays, because removing it would mean touching the video data.
MP4 and MOV files are built from boxes. The cleaner finds the boxes that hold location, device and date details and blanks them in place, keeping every box the same size. Nothing that points into the video data moves, so the file plays exactly as before. That's also why it's fast: a 2 GB video is cleaned in about the time it takes to read its metadata.
Before you share the original file: by email, a cloud link, a marketplace listing, a forum or a messaging app set to send files. Most big social networks strip location from what other people see, but many other routes don't. Our guide to which apps remove metadata applies to videos too. To clean a whole folder of videos and photos at once, use the batch cleaner.
Usually the GPS position where recording started, the phone make and model, the software version, and the date and time it was recorded. Some apps also add a title, author or comment. Drop a video above to see exactly what yours contains.
No. The cleaner doesn't re-encode anything. It blanks the metadata fields inside the file and leaves the video and audio data exactly as they were, so the cleaned copy plays identically.
No practical one. Only the small metadata section is read and rewritten, so even multi-gigabyte videos are cleaned in seconds and never need to fit in your browser's memory.
No. Content Credentials and AI-generated labels are kept, because removing them would mislead whoever watches the video next. The cleaner removes personal details like location and device.
Yes. In the Photos share sheet, tap Options and turn off Location before sending; that applies to videos too. Our iPhone guide has the steps. This tool helps when you already have the file on a computer.