EXIF Viewer (See and Remove Photo Metadata)
See what a photo is carrying: camera, lens, date and the exact GPS location. Then strip it all out and save a clean copy, one photo or fifty.
Where it was taken
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See this spot on a mapAnyone who receives this photo can do exactly what that button does.
Camera and settings
Free forever, no sign-up and no limits, and this tool installs on its own so you can keep it on your home screen.
Drop in a photo and see exactly what it is carrying: the camera, the settings, the date, and the GPS location if there is one, down to the street. Then save a clean copy with all of it removed, one photo or fifty at a time.
How to use it
- Choose a photo, or fiftyA JPEG straight off a camera or phone is the one that carries metadata. A batch shows which of them have a location, which is usually the thing you want to know.
- See what is in itThe location comes first, with a button that opens it on a map, because that is what anyone receiving the photo could do. The camera and settings follow.
- Save a clean copyThe clean copy has every metadata block removed. The picture itself is untouched and nothing is re-compressed, so no quality is lost.
The part of a photo you cannot see
A photograph is not only a picture. Inside the same file, a camera writes a block of information about how the picture was made: which camera, which lens, the shutter speed and aperture, the exact second the shutter opened, and on a phone, where you were standing when it did. That block travels with the file wherever it goes.
For a photographer, this is genuinely useful. For everyone else, the interesting entry is the last one, because a set of coordinates accurate to a few metres attached to a photo taken indoors is your home address, and it is attached to every photo you took there.
Which is why the location comes first
Most metadata viewers present a long table sorted by tag number, with the GPS fields somewhere in the middle as three separate rows of degrees, minutes and seconds. That is a faithful rendering of the file and a poor answer to the question people actually have.
So this one leads with a plain verdict, then the coordinates, then a button that opens them on a map. The button is not a convenience. It is the point: it shows you, in one click, exactly what anyone who receives the photo can find out.
Removing it without damaging the picture
A JPEG is a series of labelled segments. The metadata sits in its own segments near the front, and the picture itself is one long block of compressed data after them. Removing the metadata is therefore a matter of copying the file across and skipping those segments, leaving the compressed picture data byte for byte identical.
That is what this tool does, and it is worth knowing because the common alternative is not. Re-saving a photo through an image editor also removes the metadata, but it decodes and re-compresses the picture on the way through, which loses a little quality each time. A clean copy from here is pixel for pixel the photo you started with.
What this tool will not do
It does not edit metadata, only read it and remove all of it. It cannot recover metadata that was already stripped. It does not touch the file's own created and modified dates, which belong to your computer rather than to the photo. And it reads JPEG: PNG, WebP and screenshots do not carry EXIF in this form, and the tool says so rather than implying it cleaned something.
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Questions people ask
What is EXIF data?
A block of information a camera writes inside the photo file alongside the picture. It typically holds the make and model of the camera or phone, the lens, the exposure settings, the exact date and time, and on a phone with location services on, the GPS coordinates where the photo was taken.
Does a photo really contain my location?
If it came off a phone with location enabled and has not been through anything that strips it, yes, usually to within a few metres. This tool shows the exact coordinates and gives you a button that opens them on a map, because that is precisely what anyone you send the photo to could do.
Does removing EXIF reduce the quality of the photo?
No, and this matters. The clean copy is made by copying the compressed image data across byte for byte and leaving out the metadata blocks, so the pixels are identical to the original. Many tools instead re-save the photo through an image editor, which does remove the metadata but also re-compresses the picture and loses a little quality every time.
Why does my photo show no metadata at all?
Almost certainly because it has already been stripped. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, X and most messaging apps remove EXIF when you upload, so a photo saved from any of them will be empty. Screenshots never had any to begin with, and PNG and WebP files do not carry EXIF in the way JPEGs do.
Which formats does this work on?
Reading and removing both work on JPEG, which is the format that carries EXIF and what phones and cameras produce. PNG, WebP and screenshots are not carrying this data, so the tool tells you so rather than pretending to clean something that was already clean.
Should I remove EXIF before posting a photo?
Before posting somewhere that keeps it, yes, particularly for photos taken at home. Most large social networks strip it themselves, but forums, marketplace listings, image hosts, email attachments and file-sharing links often do not, and those are exactly the places a photo of something you are selling gets posted from your own front room.
Can I clean a whole folder at once?
Yes, up to 50. Every photo is listed with what it was carrying, and any that have a location say so on their own row, so you can see at a glance which ones matter. Take them one at a time or all together as a ZIP.
Does the date get removed too?
Yes. Every metadata block goes, including the date taken, the camera, the software that last saved the file and any author or copyright fields. What remains is the picture and nothing else. Note that the file's own created and modified timestamps come from your computer's file system, not from inside the photo, so those are outside what any tool like this can change.