📅How to remove a date stamp from a photo
Lots of old photos — and plenty of phone and dashcam frames — carry a burned-in orange or white date and time in the corner. Upload your photo below, brush over that row of digits, and click Erase; AI rebuilds the background behind it. Since the stamp usually sits on a simple area, it comes off cleanly. Free, no signup, files auto-deleted in 24h.
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Step by step
- 1
Upload the stamped photo
Upload the photo with the date or time stamp in the corner.
- 2
Cover the whole stamp
Paint over the entire row of digits, including the gaps, colons and slashes between them.
- 3
Erase
Click Erase and AI flattens the digits away; over flat areas or sky it's nearly invisible.
Frequently asked questions
Can I remove a stamp that lands on a face or the subject?
You can brush it, but over a face or detailed subject the AI has to guess, so it may not be perfect; stamps over background, sky or ground clear most cleanly.
Does removing the stamp change the photo's real date?
No. The stamp is just pixels drawn on top; erasing it only changes how the image looks and doesn't touch the file's capture data (EXIF).
A whole batch has stamps — do I do them one by one?
For now, yes. The upside: the stamp sits in a fixed spot on a simple background, so once you've got the hang of it each photo is just one brushed row and a click.