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Privacy
This is the thorough version. Where the EXIF remover targets the camera record, this one clears every removable block the file carries - EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments and embedded text - and reports honestly on the one thing it deliberately leaves behind. As with every ImageUtility tool, the file is rewritten on your own device.
This tool accepts JPG, PNG and WebP files. Everything is decoded by your own browser, so the formats available depend on what your browser can open - which for HEIC in particular varies between Safari and other browsers.
EXIF including GPS, XMP packets, IPTC records, JPEG comment segments and PNG text chunks. The results panel lists each block by name along with how many bytes it occupied, so the answer for your specific file is on screen rather than being a promise made by this page.
Because it is the one block whose removal changes what you see. An ICC profile carries no information about you, and stripping it from a wide-gamut photo can visibly shift the colours. It is offered as a separate choice so the decision is yours and is never made silently.
No, and no honest tool can. Metadata blocks can be cleared, but the pixels themselves may still show a face, a street sign or a screen, and some cameras leave sensor noise patterns that forensic analysis can match. What this tool guarantees is the removal of the specific blocks it names.
No. The file keeps a name derived from the one you supplied, because silently renaming someone's file is worse behaviour than leaving it alone. If the name itself carries a date or a place, rename it before sharing - the privacy checker flags this when it spots a date in a filename.
JPG, PNG and WebP, because those are the containers this tool can safely rewrite. Other formats are refused outright rather than being run through a process that might damage them or silently fail to remove anything.
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