Guide

Strip AI-generation metadata from images

Images from DALL·E, Adobe Firefly, Google Imagen, and Microsoft Designer ship with invisible provenance tags (C2PA Content Credentials) marking them as AI-generated, often with tool and timestamp details.

What AI tools embed

These tags are designed to persist and identify AI origin. They live in the file's metadata and survive ordinary copying.

Standard EXIF tools ignore them entirely, so an image can look "clean" while still carrying its AI provenance.

Removing AI provenance tags

NoTrace specifically detects C2PA Content Credentials and removes them along with EXIF, XMP, and device metadata — verified by re-scanning the output.

Everything happens on your device, so the image is never uploaded anywhere in the process.

Clean it in one tap with NoTrace. See exactly what your photos and videos reveal, then strip GPS, device IDs, timestamps, and AI provenance — on your device, nothing uploaded.

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FAQ

Will removing AI metadata always work?

NoTrace removes the embedded C2PA manifest from the file. Note that some platforms detect AI by other means; this removes the embedded tags from your copy.

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