See the Exif, GPS and camera data hidden in a photo
Drop in a photo — JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, HEIC, AVIF or TIFF — and read everything the file records about itself: where it was taken, on what camera, when, with which settings, and which software has touched it since. Nothing is uploaded: the file is read inside your browser and never leaves your device.
When this helps
A phone photo usually records the exact spot it was taken. You cannot tell by looking at it, and by the time it is posted it is too late.
Check the photo first; if it shows a location, strip it before posting.
A picture in a listing, a report or a message carries the device, the timestamp and often the coordinates — but nothing on screen shows them.
Open the file here and read the capture date, camera and location.
Copyright, credit and caption fields are written by the software and quietly dropped by half the tools a file passes through.
Confirm the IPTC credit and copyright survived the export.
A tool said it removed the metadata. There is no way to see whether it did, and "trust me" is not a check.
Read the stripped file here — it should come back with nothing but the picture.
FAQ
- Is the photo uploaded anywhere?
- No. The file is read inside your browser and nothing is sent to a server. That matters more here than almost anywhere else on this site: the whole subject of this page is the location recorded in your photo, so if the in-browser read ever fails, nothing is uploaded unless you click a button that says so.
- What does it show?
- The GPS coordinates, with a map link, when the photo has them. The Exif block: camera maker and model, lens, date taken, exposure, aperture, ISO, flash and orientation. The XMP editing history. The IPTC caption, credit and copyright fields. The colour profile, the embedded thumbnail, and any maker-specific block the file happens to carry — including the ones with no name anybody would recognise.
- Which formats can it read?
- JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, HEIC, AVIF and TIFF. It reads the container rather than the picture, so it also works on files no viewer on your computer can open — an unusual HEIC still hands over its Exif.
- Can I check several photos at once?
- Yes. Select them all, or drop a ZIP, and you get one report with a section per image. The summary says how many of them record a location.
- How do I remove what it found?
- Use the Remove image metadata tool, which takes the same file and does not re-encode the picture. This page only reads; it never changes your file.
- Why does it say a tag has no name?
- Because it does not have one worth showing. Cameras write plenty of tags whose meaning is not documented, and printing "0xA434 = 2.2" would be the appearance of information rather than information. Those are counted instead, so you know they are there.