Quick answer: Midjourney images typically carry your full prompt, a Job ID and your Midjourney username in the file's text metadata. Anyone who opens the file in a metadata viewer can read them. To remove them, run the image through AI Metadata Cleaner (or ExifTool) and share the cleaned copy.

What Midjourney stores in your images

When you download an image from Midjourney, the file usually includes, in plain text:

  • your prompt, including any parameters such as --ar, --v or --style
  • a Job ID that points back to the generation on Midjourney
  • your Midjourney username

Unlike ChatGPT, Gemini or Adobe Firefly, Midjourney hasn't typically used signed Content Credentials (C2PA). Its data sits in ordinary text fields, which any metadata viewer, and many websites, can read.

Why you might want it gone

  • Privacy. Your username links every shared image back to your Midjourney account, and the Job ID can link to the original generation.
  • Your prompt is your work. A carefully built prompt is easy to copy if it travels with every image.
  • Clean files for clients. Deliverables shouldn't carry your account details or working notes.

How to remove Midjourney metadata

AI Metadata Cleaner (browser, no install)

  1. Open AI Metadata Cleaner.
  2. Drop in your Midjourney PNG or JPEG.
  3. Click Process and download the clean copy.

It removes text chunks, EXIF, IPTC and XMP in your browser without uploading the image, and re-reads the result to confirm nothing identifying is left. Free accounts clean 10 images a day; Pro cleans 10 at once for bigger batches.

ExifTool (command line)

exiftool -all= -tagsfromfile @ -icc_profile image.png

Run it on a folder to clean a whole batch. Then check one file to confirm the prompt is gone.

Screenshots

A screenshot doesn't carry the original's text metadata, but it lowers the resolution and adds your device's own data. Cleaning the original is better.

How to check your image is clean

Open the cleaned file in a metadata viewer and search for your prompt text, "Job ID" and your username. If none appear, it's clean.

Selling or sharing Midjourney images

Removing metadata doesn't change how an image was made, and it doesn't change the rules where you post it:

  • Etsy asks sellers to disclose when listings use AI-generated content.
  • Stock sites differ: Adobe Stock accepts AI images marked as AI; Shutterstock and Getty don't accept AI-generated submissions.
  • Social platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube ask you to label realistic AI content.

Clean the file to protect your account details and prompts; disclose AI use where the platform asks for it. See is it legal to remove AI metadata for the legal side.

Frequently asked questions

Does Midjourney put my prompt in the image?

Typically yes: downloaded files usually include the prompt, a Job ID and your username in text metadata.

How do I remove my prompt from a Midjourney image?

Run the image through a metadata cleaner such as AI Metadata Cleaner, or use ExifTool, then check that the prompt text is gone.

Does Midjourney add Content Credentials?

Midjourney images have typically carried plain text metadata rather than signed C2PA Content Credentials. Either way, a metadata cleaner removes both.

Does removing the metadata stop Midjourney images being recognised as AI?

It removes what's written in the file. It doesn't change the image itself, and some platforms and detectors judge the picture, not the metadata.