Compress images and remove metadata before sharing.

Optimize Images squeezes the wasted weight out of your pictures and can quietly strip the hidden metadata - camera model, location, timestamps - before anything leaves your Mac. Lighter pages, smaller attachments, cleaner shares, all in one batch.

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What it does

Lighter image files, with the hidden metadata stripped out.

Shrink file sizes so pages load faster and attachments fit.

Optionally strip embedded metadata like camera, location, and timestamps.

Process a whole batch at once with one set of options.

Optimized copies are saved separately - originals stay full quality.

Detailed capabilities

What Optimize Images covers.

Concrete features, inputs, and workflow details for this tool.

Smaller files, same picture

Compress JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, and WebP images so a heavy photo folder turns into lean, fast-loading assets ready for the web or email.

Leave the metadata behind

Turn on metadata stripping to drop details such as camera model, GPS location, and capture time before you post or send an image.

One batch, originals intact

Apply your compression and metadata choices across the whole selection in a single run, with every optimized file written alongside the untouched source.

How to use it

From opening the tool to saving the result.

  1. 01

    Add images.

  2. 02

    Choose compression and metadata options.

  3. 03

    Run optimization.

  4. 04

    Review the saved outputs.

Questions

Before you try Optimize Images

Does optimization remove GPS data?

Image metadata stripping can remove embedded metadata from supported image formats.

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