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EXIF Viewer

See a photo's hidden metadata — camera, settings, date and GPS location — and remove it without losing quality. Private, in your browser.

Digital photos carry hidden information: the camera and lens, the shutter speed, aperture and ISO, the date and time the picture was taken, the software that edited it, and often the exact GPS location. The EXIF Viewer shows all of it. Open or paste a photo to see a clear summary, a warning and a map link when the photo reveals where it was taken, and a searchable table of every EXIF, IPTC, XMP and ICC tag.

Before you share a photo, remove its metadata with one click. For JPEG, PNG and WebP the tool cuts the metadata blocks out of the file without re-compressing the picture, so the quality stays exactly the same; the colour profile is kept and so is the orientation, so the photo still shows the right way up. Your photos are read in your browser and never uploaded.

How to use EXIF Viewer

  1. Choose a photo, drop it on the page, or paste it with Ctrl+V.
  2. Read the summary: camera, lens, settings, date taken and location.
  3. Search the full table of tags, or copy everything as JSON.
  4. Click Remove metadata and download to get a clean copy that is safe to share.

Features

  • Reads JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, PNG, WebP and AVIF photos.
  • Summary: camera, lens, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focal length, flash, date taken.
  • GPS location with a privacy warning and an OpenStreetMap link.
  • Every EXIF, IPTC, XMP and ICC tag in a searchable table.
  • Lossless metadata removal for JPEG, PNG and WebP: no re-compression.
  • Keeps the colour profile and the orientation when cleaning.
  • Copy all metadata as JSON.
  • Private: photos never leave your device.

What EXIF data contains

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is written by cameras and phones into every photo. Editing apps add their own information as XMP, news and stock agencies use IPTC for captions and copyright, and an ICC profile describes the colours.

InformationExampleWhy it matters
Camera and lensApple iPhone 15 Pro, 24 mmShows which device took the photo
Exposure1/250 s, f/1.8, ISO 64Useful for learning photography
Date and time12 Oct 2026, 18:42Reveals when you were somewhere
GPS location48.858370, 2.294481Reveals exactly where the photo was taken
SoftwareAdobe Lightroom 7.4Shows the photo was edited
Author and copyrightJane Doe, All rights reservedCredits the photographer

Location data and your privacy

Most phones save the GPS position in every photo unless location access for the camera is turned off. A photo of your home, your children's school or your car, shared as an original file by email, cloud link or in a marketplace listing, can tell a stranger exactly where it was taken. Many social networks and messaging apps remove location data when you post, but email attachments, file-sharing links, forums and websites usually keep it. Check a photo here before you share it, and remove the metadata if it shows a location.

How the metadata is removed

Re-saving a photo through an image editor removes metadata but also re-compresses the picture, which loses a little quality each time. This tool instead cuts the metadata blocks out of the file. In a JPEG it removes the EXIF, XMP, IPTC and comment segments but keeps the image data byte for byte, the ICC colour profile and the Adobe segment that CMYK files need; if the photo was rotated by an orientation tag, a tiny tag with only the orientation is kept so it still displays upright. In PNG files the text, EXIF and timestamp chunks are removed, and in WebP files the EXIF and XMP chunks.

HEIC, RAW and other formats

The viewer reads metadata from HEIC photos from iPhones, from TIFF and from many RAW files, but removing metadata from those formats would require rewriting their complex containers. Convert HEIC photos with the HEIC to JPG tool first, then clean the JPG here. For PDFs, use the PDF Metadata Remover, which removes the author, title and other document properties.

Frequently asked questions

How do I see the EXIF data of a photo?

Open or drop the photo on this page. The summary shows the camera, settings, date and location, and the table below lists every tag.

Does removing metadata reduce quality?

No. For JPEG, PNG and WebP the metadata blocks are cut out and the picture data is copied unchanged, so the quality is exactly the same.

How do I remove the location from a photo?

Click Remove metadata and download. The clean copy has no GPS position, camera details, dates or editing history.

Why does my photo show no EXIF data?

The metadata has already been removed, for example by WhatsApp, Facebook or a screenshot, or the image was created without it.

Will the cleaned photo still be the right way up?

Yes. If the original relied on an orientation tag, the clean copy keeps that single tag so it displays the same way.

Can I remove metadata from HEIC photos?

Not directly. Convert the HEIC photo to JPG with the HEIC to JPG tool, then remove the metadata from the JPG here.

Are my photos uploaded?

No. Photos are read and cleaned entirely in your browser; nothing is sent to a server.

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