Image Metadata Viewer

View the EXIF metadata and technical details embedded in any photo — camera model, lens, exposure settings, GPS location, and more. Everything is read directly in your browser; your image is never uploaded.

How to use

1. Drop or choose an image (JPEG from a camera or smartphone works best).
2. Click Read Metadata to extract all EXIF information.
3. Browse the metadata table — camera settings, date, GPS, and more.
4. If GPS coordinates are present, click them to open the location on a map.

Privacy note

GPS coordinates in photos reveal where the photo was taken. Use the EXIF remover to strip this data before sharing photos publicly.

What a photo file actually tells people

A JPEG straight off a phone typically carries far more than the picture:

• GPS coordinates accurate to within a few metres, plus altitude and sometimes compass direction — enough to identify a home address from a photo posted of a living room.
• Date and time of capture, often with timezone — which can contradict a claim about when something happened.
• Camera make, model, and serial number, which links separate photos to the same physical device.
• Software and edit history, revealing which application processed the image and sometimes that it was edited at all.

None of this is visible when you look at the picture, and all of it travels with the file when you email it, attach it to a listing, or upload it somewhere that does not strip metadata.

Don't assume the platform removes it

Major social networks generally do strip EXIF on upload — but that is a policy, not a guarantee, and it does not extend to the many places photos actually travel: email attachments, messaging apps that send files rather than compressed images, cloud storage links, classified listings, and forum uploads. The safe assumption is that metadata survives unless you removed it yourself.

When metadata is the point

Reading EXIF is not only a privacy exercise. Photographers use it to learn which aperture, shutter speed, and ISO produced a result worth repeating. It confirms which lens or body took a shot when several were in use. Capture timestamps put an unsorted archive back in order. And checking whether metadata is present at all is a quick way to tell whether an image came straight from a camera or has been through processing that wiped it.

Everything is parsed in your browser — the photo is never uploaded, which matters given that the whole point of this tool is examining data you may not want to share.