EXIF Viewer

About this tool

Most cameras and phones write information into every photo they take: the make and model, the lens, exposure settings, the date and time, and often the GPS location where you stood. This is called EXIF data, and it travels with the file when you send or post it, unless the service you use strips it. Drop a photo here and the tool lists everything it finds in a readable form: camera and image details, exposure settings, the location with a link to see it on a map, XMP and IPTC fields used by editors and news agencies (author, title, keywords, copyright), the colour profile and the small preview image that some cameras embed. A short summary at the top says what could identify you or your whereabouts: a GPS position, a camera or lens serial number, an author name, the date of the shot. The photo is read in your browser with the exifr library and never uploaded; the only thing that leaves this page is the map link, if you click it, which opens OpenStreetMap with the coordinates. The embedded preview image deserves attention: it is made when the photo is taken and often stays unchanged when the main picture is cropped or edited, so it can still show what you removed. Supported formats are JPEG, TIFF, PNG, HEIC and AVIF; for WebP only the EXIF block is read, not XMP, and if a WebP carries XMP the tool says it could not read it. Camera-specific MakerNote data, where some cameras store serial numbers, is not decoded. Many websites remove this data when you upload, but not all do, and email attachments and cloud links usually keep it. To clean a photo, use the EXIF remover.

How to use it

1. Drop a photo on the page, or choose one.
2. Read the summary at the top for anything private, such as a GPS location.
3. Look through the tables for the full details.
4. If you do not want to share the data, remove it with the EXIF remover before sending the photo.

Common problems

It says no metadata was found

The photo has none, or a website or app removed it. Screenshots and images saved from social media usually have none.

There is no location although I took it with my phone

Location tagging may have been switched off in the camera settings, or the photo was sent through an app that strips it. Messaging apps and social networks often remove the location.

The file could not be read

Only image files carry EXIF data. Check that it is a JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, HEIC or AVIF image and that it is not damaged or cut short.

The date does not match when I took the photo

The camera clock may have been wrong or set to another time zone. EXIF dates have no time zone, so they show the camera's local time as written.