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Photo metadata viewer

Drop a photo to see everything its file records: where it was taken, on which phone or camera, when, and with which settings. Read in your browser, so the photo never leaves your device.

100% local — the photo never leaves your device.

How to check a photo's metadata

  1. Drop, paste or pick a photo: one from your phone, a camera, or a file someone sent you.

  2. Read the report: location with a map link, device, date and time zone, camera settings, file details, and any hidden blocks.

  3. Done looking? Remove all of it in one click and download a clean copy, or leave the file as it is.

What the viewer shows

EXIF, XMP and IPTC data, sorted by what it tells someone who has the file:

  • Location

    GPS latitude, longitude and altitude, with a link to open the spot on a map. This is the field to check before a photo goes anywhere.

  • Device

    Camera or phone make and model, lens, the software that last saved the file, and the camera's serial number when it is there.

  • Time

    The date and time the shot was taken, with the time zone offset, shown the ISO way (2024-05-17 14:03).

  • Camera settings and hidden blocks

    Shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focal length and flash, then whatever else is inside, flagged as present: XMP and IPTC blocks, an embedded thumbnail, maker notes, extra images.

Why check before you share

Most people never see this data, because photo apps hide it. It travels with the file anyway: as an email attachment, a document in a messenger, an upload to a forum or a marketplace, a file in a shared drive.

The viewer only reads. Your file is not changed unless you press Remove, and then the clean copy is a new download; the original stays as it was.

Nothing is uploaded

The file is read by code running in this tab. There is no server it is sent to, and the map link opens only if you click it. Once the page has loaded, the viewer works offline.

Want the metadata gone? Remove photo metadata strips all of it without re-encoding the picture.

Checking a video? Video metadata shows and removes location and phone model in MP4 and MOV files.

A document? PDF metadata shows the author, the app and the dates inside a PDF.

Share your screen, not your data

The DataBlur extension blurs emails, names and numbers on the live page before a screen share or recording picks them up.

FAQ

Drop the photo on this page, paste it, or pick it with Choose a photo. The report lists everything the file records, grouped by location, device, time, camera settings and file. Nothing is uploaded.

EXIF is the record a camera or phone writes into a photo file: location, device, date, and the settings used for the shot. Editing apps can add more blocks, such as XMP and IPTC. The viewer reads EXIF in full. XMP and IPTC are shown as present, along with any author or location the XMP carries.

If the file has GPS data, yes: the report shows the coordinates and an Open in map link. Many photos have none, because location was off on the phone or an app removed it when the photo was shared.

Open this page in Safari, tap Choose a photo and pick it from your library. For a quick look in the Photos app, swipe up on the photo or tap the info button. Photos shows the location and the camera, but not every block in the file.

Screenshots, images saved from most websites and photos sent through many messengers carry little or none: the app removed it, or never wrote it. The report then says the photo is clean.

JPEG, PNG, WebP and HEIC, up to 100 MB. Chrome cannot display HEIC, so there is no preview there, but the report is the same as in Safari.