Remove C2PA content credentials from an image
This tool strips the C2PA manifest — Content Credentials — from your copy of an image, alone or together with all other metadata. Processing is 100% client-side: nothing is uploaded.
The file is read into browser memory only — check the network inspector: nothing is transmitted.
The workflow
Check, strip, then verify your file is clean
Credentials removal works best as a loop. First, run the image through the C2PA content credentials checker to see exactly which manifests and claims the file declares. Strip them here. Then feed the cleaned copy back to the checker — it should report that no content credentials exist for that copy.
Removing the manifest is deliberately not the same as faking provenance: the file simply carries no declared history. If you also want AI generation parameters, XMP signatures and IPTC source types gone in one pass, the AI metadata remover targets that wider layer. For the full picture of what each generator embeds and which layers to strip, read the guide to removing AI metadata.
What C2PA is
C2PA is an open standard for content provenance. A camera, AI generator or editing app can attach a signed manifest — Content Credentials — recording where a file came from and how it was made or edited. Anyone can then verify that record with a checker tool.
What removing it does
This tool strips the C2PA manifest from your copy of the file. After that, verification tools will show no Content Credentials for that copy. Two things to understand:
- Absence is visible too. A file with no credentials is not the same as a file with clean credentials — verifiers simply report that no provenance record exists.
- Stripping your copy changes nothing elsewhere. Platforms that already ingested the file keep whatever they recorded, and pixel-level watermarks such as SynthID are not metadata and survive.
Your responsibility
Remove credentials only from files you own or have the right to modify. Where a platform, marketplace or law requires provenance disclosure, keep it. See the terms of use for the full picture.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Is it legal to remove AI metadata from an image?
For your own files, removing metadata is generally lawful — metadata itself is not specially protected in most jurisdictions. What can break the law or platform rules is what you do next: misrepresenting the origin of content where disclosure is required. The file is your responsibility.
Will platforms still detect my image as AI-generated after stripping?
Possibly. Metadata is only one signal. Pixel-level watermarks (like SynthID) and visual classifiers work without any metadata. No metadata tool can promise how a platform will treat your image.
Is removing C2PA the same as removing a watermark?
No. C2PA Content Credentials are metadata attached to the file. Watermarks such as SynthID are embedded in the pixel data itself. This tool removes the former; it cannot and does not touch the latter.
Can I use this to pass AI images off as human-made?
The tool removes metadata; how you use the output is on you. Where a platform, marketplace or regulation requires AI disclosure, presenting stripped content as human-made can violate those rules. We do not encourage that use.
Does removing metadata affect my copyright?
Removing metadata does not change who owns an image. But copyright and author fields stored in metadata are removed with it in remove-all mode. AI-only mode preserves copyright fields stored in EXIF and IPTC.
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