Drop any photo to instantly extract all its EXIF metadata — GPS location, camera settings, date & time, lens info, and more. Export as JSON, or strip it in one click. Nothing leaves your device.
Last updated: August 2026
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Drop your photo
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, HEIF, TIFF or AVIF. Nothing is uploaded, it stays on your device.
Review the metadata
GPS, camera, exposure, date and software fields, grouped and labeled. Only what's actually present is shown.
Check the map link
If GPS coordinates are found, a View on Google Maps link appears automatically.
Export, optional
Copy as JSON to grab the full raw metadata for another tool or a spreadsheet.
Remove metadata, optional
One click strips everything and gives you a clean file to download, right on this page.
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a standard that defines how metadata is stored inside image files. The following fields are read and displayed when present. Not all fields will be in every image, since different cameras and phones record different data.
Location
Camera
Exposure
Date and time
Image
Author and software
Reading EXIF data is only half of what this page does. Once a photo's metadata loads, a Remove all metadata button appears alongside the results. Clicking it re-encodes the image so only pixel data remains, no GPS, no camera model, no timestamps, and hands you a clean file to download immediately. There's no need to open a separate tool just because you found something you'd rather not share.
One thing worth knowing before you use it: the cleaned file keeps its original format only if that format is PNG. Every other input, JPEG, WebP, HEIC, HEIF, TIFF and AVIF, comes back as a JPEG after cleaning, since that's what the removal step re-encodes into. If keeping your original file format matters more than convenience, use Remove EXIF Data instead, or if it's specifically the GPS coordinates you want gone and nothing else, Remove Location from Photo is the more targeted option.
Photo archiving and cataloging
Extracting date, camera and location data to organise large photo archives, build timelines, or import into photo management software.
Verifying photo authenticity
Checking whether a photo's claimed date and location match the EXIF data. Useful for journalism, legal proceedings and content verification.
Privacy audit before sharing
Checking exactly what location and device data is embedded in a photo before sharing or publishing it publicly.
Learning photography
Reviewing the exact aperture, shutter speed and ISO from a well-exposed shot to understand what settings produced a particular result.
Recovering photo metadata
Reading date and location from old photos to fill in gaps in a family album, travel diary, or personal archive.
Software and app development
Testing EXIF parsing in apps by verifying what data a real photo contains before writing parsing logic for it.
Assuming every photo has EXIF data
Instagram, Twitter and most social platforms strip metadata before delivering a file. Screenshots and digitally created images never had any to begin with. No EXIF found is expected for a lot of real-world photos, not a sign something's broken.
Treating missing EXIF as proof a photo is authentic or manipulated
It's neither. A photo can lose its EXIF data through completely normal channels, like a social platform's upload pipeline, without anything suspicious happening. Absence of metadata alone proves nothing either way.
Not realizing you can remove metadata right here
The Remove all metadata button appears alongside your results as soon as a photo loads. There's no need to open a separate tool if you just want a clean copy of the same file you're already viewing.
Expecting the cleaned download to keep its original format
Only PNG sources stay PNG after cleaning. JPEG, WebP, HEIC, HEIF, TIFF and AVIF all download as JPEG once metadata is stripped. Use the dedicated Remove EXIF Data tool if preserving the original format matters.
Sharing a photo with visible GPS data before checking it here first
If a photo has GPS coordinates, this tool shows the exact map location before you post it anywhere. Worth a quick check before sharing photos taken at home or anywhere else you'd rather not broadcast.
Remove EXIF Data
Strip all metadata from a photo before sharing or publishing
Remove Location from Photo
Strip GPS coordinates specifically before sharing photos publicly
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You can extract GPS coordinates and altitude, camera make and model, lens model and focal length, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, exposure mode and metering mode, date taken, date digitized, date modified and timezone offset, flash status, white balance, software used to edit the image, image dimensions, color space, resolution in DPI, and author and copyright fields if set.
EXIF data can be absent for several reasons. The photo may have been processed through a platform like Instagram or Twitter that strips metadata before delivering the file. Someone may have removed the metadata using a tool like this one before sharing. The image may have been created digitally (illustrations, screenshots, generated images) rather than captured with a camera. PNG files from certain applications also frequently contain no EXIF data.
Yes. Once your photo's metadata loads, a Remove all metadata button appears alongside the results. Clicking it re-encodes the image so only pixel data remains, no GPS, no camera info, no timestamps, and gives you a clean file to download immediately. There's no need to visit a separate tool for this.
PNG sources stay PNG. Everything else, JPEG, WebP, HEIC, HEIF, TIFF and AVIF, downloads as JPEG after metadata removal, since that's the format the cleaning step re-encodes into. If you need to keep an original WebP or TIFF format after stripping metadata, use the dedicated Remove EXIF Data tool instead, or convert the cleaned JPEG back afterward.
Yes. After loading a photo, click Copy as JSON to copy the full raw EXIF data to your clipboard as a JSON object. You can paste this into a text editor, a spreadsheet, a database, or any tool that works with JSON. This is useful for cataloging photo archives, verifying metadata programmatically, or forensic analysis.
Yes. HEIC and HEIF files from iPhone and iPad are supported, and metadata is read directly from the file's structure rather than requiring the browser to decode the actual image. iPhone HEIC photos often contain rich EXIF data including GPS, camera model, lens settings, and Apple-specific fields.
Dimensions are read by asking the browser to render a preview of the image, which some browsers can't do for HEIC without native support. EXIF metadata is read separately and directly from the file's structure, so it doesn't depend on the browser being able to display the photo. If your browser can't preview a HEIC file, you may see 0x0 for resolution while every other metadata field still populates correctly.
No. Your photo is read entirely in your browser using the exifr library, which parses EXIF data locally without any server communication. Nothing is sent anywhere. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the tool still works.
EXIF data provides useful signals for authenticity analysis but it is not conclusive proof. Metadata can be edited or fabricated using freely available tools. The absence of EXIF data does not mean a photo is manipulated, plenty of legitimate photos have had it stripped by the platform they passed through. For forensic purposes, EXIF data is one indicator among many, not definitive evidence.
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