Release Changelog

A public history of updates to DeleteFootprints.ai, including new features, fixes, reliability improvements, and security-related changes. Entries labelled Security update, System upgrades, and similar summaries intentionally omit sensitive implementation details.

Version 2.5.1 - 2026-11-07

Features

  • Edit: 26 more common EXIF, IPTC and XMP fields you can fill in, in all 26 languages
  • Edit: every field of a tab now shows in one list, with no Show Advanced section
  • Text Cleaner: a new heading and a short caption under it, in all 26 languages

Fixes

  • Edit: older IPTC text in your photo is now kept correctly when you save
  • Edit: if your photo cannot be read, the save stops and nothing is changed
  • Edit: saving with no changes no longer changes the photo date
  • Edit: field names now match in upper or lower case, and a field cannot be added twice
  • After you choose files, the page now moves smoothly to your list of files
  • Text Cleaner: corrected wording in the caption and heading in some languages

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • Visual polish
  • Security update
  • Ad delivery updates

Version 2.5.0 - 2026-11-05

Features

  • Text Cleaner: a stronger cleaning engine finds more hidden characters and keeps your words apart
  • Text Cleaner: finds look-alike letters, styled letters, invisible joiners and text-direction marks
  • Text Cleaner: removes ChatGPT referrer tags from links and finds chat-export markers
  • Text Cleaner: shows AI tool names in document metadata for you to review
  • Text Cleaner: new Writing patterns tab counts common AI writing patterns in English text and does not change your words
  • Text Cleaner: new preset menu, plus a quick-changes box in the output card
  • Text Cleaner: uploaded text files are read correctly in more text encodings
  • Text Cleaner: the page has a new look that matches Home, with new text in all 26 languages
  • Cookie banner with Allow and Decline buttons
  • About page: founder profiles
  • Footer: a new contact and feedback line
  • Edit guide: the article now sits in full-width sections, with shorter how-to steps

Fixes

  • Text Cleaner: one Clean now finishes the job, so a second Clean changes nothing
  • Text Cleaner: removing a character no longer joins two words
  • Text Cleaner: result lines now state only what the cleaning did
  • Text Cleaner: the counters stay in place while your text is checked again
  • Text Cleaner: a page left open after an update now asks you to reload
  • Damaged PNG files and other damaged uploads now get a clear error
  • TIFF files: details stored in each image section of the file are now removed
  • Edit: text too long for an IPTC field is now refused at the check step
  • Edit: GPS, Rating and ISO field names now match in upper or lower case
  • Corrected wording in the Terms and in some languages

Other updates

  • System upgrades
  • Documentation and tooling
  • Performance improvements
  • Visual polish
  • Reliability improvements
  • Dependency updates
  • Security update
  • Translation updates
  • Capacity and safety limits

Version 2.4.0 - 2026-10-17

Features

  • Redesigned Home page: steps, features, about and FAQ now sit in full-width rounded sections
  • New "how it works" section on Home with an animated demo and a four-step timeline
  • Clearer Home page text: reworded description and features, a batch feature, and six new FAQs in all 26 languages
  • Reworded FAQ answers on photo quality, HEIC, Instagram labels and captions
  • Metadata report: the summary card shows total fields and AI Footprint side by side
  • Metadata report: the file name has an image icon and a "File Name:" label
  • Metadata report: "Not present in this file" now sits in the summary card, above the section list
  • Metadata report: a new raised look for the sections panel
  • Share bar under your results; on phones it stays pinned at the bottom of the screen

Fixes

  • Home sections read clearly on the green background, in print and in right-to-left languages
  • FAQ focus rings show only when you use the keyboard
  • Non-Latin text saved into IPTC fields no longer turns into question marks
  • Damaged photos: a broken JPEG ending is repaired; photos that cannot be repaired get a clear error
  • The site icon now shows in more browsers and on iPhone home screens
  • Links to www.deletefootprints.ai now open the same page instead of the home page

Other updates

  • System upgrades
  • Documentation and tooling
  • Translation updates
  • Visual polish
  • Reliability improvements
  • Security update

Version 2.3.0 - 2026-10-14

Features

  • Edit guide: a step-by-step article on changing photo details, translated into all 26 languages
  • Edit tool: choose Remove or Preserve first; Remove starts with an empty list, Preserve fills in the photo's current details, and clearing a field deletes it
  • Edit tool: after an upload, the mode choice moves to the top of the page
  • Share bar above the download card, pinned to the bottom of the screen on phones

Fixes

  • Edit tool: Preserve keeps details the form cannot show instead of deleting them
  • Edit tool: Remove deletes only the details you pick; ISO and Flash can now be removed
  • Edit tool: GPS north/south and east/west are kept when saving
  • Edit tool: camera make, model and artist save correctly in PNG
  • Edit tool: IPTC details save correctly in WebP and HEIC, with no old copy left behind
  • Edit tool: field length limits match what the save accepts
  • FAQ card shows below the article on the Edit page
  • Share bar: Copy works in more browsers, a slimmer bar on phones, share text in your language
  • Results card fits narrow screens without side-scrolling

Other updates

  • Reliability improvements
  • Visual polish
  • Security update
  • System upgrades
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 2.2.0 - 2026-10-09

Features

  • Add Hebrew (he)
  • Instagram guide: step-by-step instructions, Instagram's own label names and ten official sources
  • Geo tool: the map and place search wait until the photo has been read
  • Download file names keep letters of any script

Fixes

  • Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy rewritten to match how the site works
  • Corrected the Persian example and the language count in the Text Cleaner guide
  • Correct question marks on Text Cleaner and Instagram headings
  • Footer copyright text now matches the rest of the footer
  • Download file names keep the joining characters some scripts need and drop stray ones
  • French and Russian: remaining English text translated and photo terms corrected
  • Screen-reader labels and outdated text retranslated in 16 languages

Other updates

  • Privacy protection improvements
  • Reliability improvements
  • Performance improvements
  • Visual polish
  • Security update
  • System upgrades
  • Ad delivery updates
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 2.1.0 - 2026-10-04

Features

  • Add Swedish (sv)
  • Add Hungarian (hu)
  • Add Ukrainian (uk)
  • Add Czech (cs)
  • Add Persian (fa)
  • Add Polish (pl)
  • Add Dutch (nl)
  • Add Italian (it)
  • Clearer batch upload subtitle: an image icon, the maximum upload size, and the supported formats in their own note

Fixes

  • The AI Text Cleaner page no longer scrolls sideways in some desktop browsers
  • Latitude and Longitude fields on Geo Tag Photo line up in Hungarian and Polish
  • In Arabic and Persian, the phone menu opens as a list and the desktop menu keeps right-to-left order
  • The verification line on the download page is fully translated
  • Dropping images brings the upload list into view, so the Remove button stays visible
  • View Image Metadata error messages are translated
  • Edit Metadata fills in a file's existing IPTC and XMP values, and the fields lock while processing runs

Other updates

  • Reliability improvements
  • Visual polish
  • Translation updates
  • System upgrades
  • Security update
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 2.0.0 - 2026-10-01

Features

  • Batch upload on the Home and Instagram pages: add several images at once and clean them in one pass
  • Upload list with a status for each file, Cancel on every row, Cancel all, and removal of a single file (it is deleted from the server straight away)
  • The metadata card follows the file you select in the list
  • Download all, plus a one-tap Download row on phones
  • The output page cleans a batch one file at a time
  • Redesigned Home hero with simpler buttons and refreshed support copy
  • Redesigned Metadata report: summary card, AI Status card (shown only when AI footprints are found), AI Footprint tags, collapsible sections and a clear "Not present in this file" note
  • The Remove bar sticks to the screen on phones and stays visible through the whole report
  • Restyled upload card and a clearer support callout on the download page

Fixes

  • The phone menu now opens on every page
  • File counts in translated text survive a language switch
  • Files with very long names now download correctly
  • A plain PNG caption is no longer mistaken for an AI prompt
  • Image dimensions and file size are read correctly for HEIC files and in View
  • A metadata read that runs out of time now reports that the server is busy instead of showing an empty file
  • Edit and Geo tag fields stay disabled until the metadata has loaded, and a late location read or save can no longer apply to the wrong photo
  • Busy-server responses are retried automatically, and a clear message appears if the server is still busy
  • View now makes a single metadata request per upload
  • Files over the size limit are reported per file, and malformed requests are rejected cleanly

Other updates

  • Capacity and safety limits
  • Performance improvements
  • Reliability improvements
  • Security update
  • System upgrades
  • Dependency updates
  • Translation updates
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 1.8.0 - 2026-09-25

Fixes

  • More hidden text is removed from PNG files
  • Edit Metadata checks the values you enter
  • Geo Tag Photo no longer applies an old location after Remove, and the same file can be picked again
  • Home tagline wording matches the AI label it describes
  • Right-to-left pages no longer scroll sideways
  • Cleaner layout for this release notes page

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades
  • Security update
  • Visual polish

Version 1.7.0 - 2026-09-21

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling

Version 1.6.0 - 2026-09-21

Features

  • A public release notes page (this page)
  • Upload row beneath the drop box on all five pages

Other updates

  • Security update
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 1.5.0 - 2026-09-20

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • Reliability improvements
  • Capacity and safety limits

Version 1.4.1 - 2026-09-20

Features

  • The action panel and mode options appear before you upload
  • The metadata editor fits on a single page

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • Visual polish

Version 1.4.0 - 2026-09-18

Features

  • Reorder top-level tools and widen the header
  • Redesign process page actions and replace-all warning
  • Add the Geo Tag Photo tool

Fixes

  • Keep mobile drop zone height and content-sized action button

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • Security update
  • Translation updates
  • Dependency updates
  • System upgrades
  • Performance improvements

Version 1.3.0 - 2026-09-15

Fixes

  • Tighter spacing around the content and the metadata table on phones

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • Security update

Version 1.2.2 - 2026-09-10

Features

  • Metadata appears right after upload, plus a shared tips section

Other updates

  • Ad delivery updates
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 1.2.1 - 2026-09-09

No user-facing changes recorded.

Version 1.2.0 - 2026-09-09

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling

Version 1.0.2 - 2026-09-03

Features

  • New AI Text Watermark Cleaner, with an Advanced preset
  • AI Text Cleaner in all 16 languages

Other updates

  • Updated footer About text for the image and text tools in every language
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 1.0.1 - 2026-08-24

Other updates

  • New homepage tagline in every language
  • Performance improvements

Version 1.0.0 - 2026-08-24

Features

  • After removal, the file is checked again and the number of removed fields is reported

Fixes

  • Pages in each language show in that language, and unknown addresses show a "not found" page
  • Tool links in every language open the right page
  • The copyright line shows the 2025–current year range

Other updates

  • System upgrades
  • Documentation and tooling
  • Performance improvements
  • Security update
  • Reliability improvements
  • Privacy protection improvements

Version 0.7.3 - 2026-08-17

Other updates

  • Translation updates

Version 0.7.2 - 2026-08-17

No user-facing changes recorded.

Version 0.7.1 - 2026-08-17

Other updates

  • Ad delivery updates
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 0.7.0 - 2026-08-17

Other updates

  • Unfilled ad spaces collapse instead of leaving blank gaps
  • Ads no longer shift the page while they load
  • Ad delivery updates
  • Visual polish
  • Translation updates
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 0.6.0 - 2026-08-17

No user-facing changes recorded.

Version 0.5.20 - 2026-08-17

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades
  • Security update
  • Ad delivery updates

Version 0.5.19 - 2026-03-06

Other updates

  • Security update
  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.18 - 2026-03-05

Other updates

  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.17 - 2026-03-05

No user-facing changes recorded.

Version 0.5.16 - 2026-03-05

No user-facing changes recorded.

Version 0.5.15 - 2026-02-15

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades
  • Security update

Version 0.5.14 - 2026-02-15

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades
  • Security update

Version 0.5.13 - 2025-09-30

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.10 - 2025-09-30

Other updates

  • New tagline gradient colours
  • Updated header and footer background colours
  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.8 - 2025-09-29

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.7 - 2025-09-17

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.6 - 2025-09-17

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.5 - 2025-09-17

Other updates

  • System upgrades
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 0.5.4 - 2025-09-17

Features

  • Animated rainbow tagline, translated into every language

Fixes

  • The tagline no longer shows late in translated pages

Other updates

  • System upgrades
  • Documentation and tooling