View a photo's hidden data
GPS coordinates, camera, serial number, timestamp. Nothing is stored.
Images are read on our servers and never stored — nothing is written to disk and no link is created.
How it works
- Add a photo — Drag it in, click to browse, or paste. JPEG, PNG, HEIC and TIFF all carry EXIF.
- Read what it found — Location, camera make and model, lens, serial number, and the exact second it was taken.
- See the location on a map — If the photo is geotagged, the coordinates link straight to the spot.
- Nothing is kept — The image is read in memory and dropped. No file is written and no link is created.
What a photo knows about you
Every camera writes a block of tags into the file alongside the picture. On a phone that routinely includes GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres, the device make and model, the lens, the exposure settings and a timestamp down to the second. Many cameras also write a body serial number, which ties every photo you have ever taken to one piece of hardware.
None of it is visible when you look at the image. All of it travels with the file when you email it, upload it, or hand it to someone on a memory stick.
Where it usually matters
Selling something online from home, posting a photo of a pet in the garden, sending a picture to a landlord or an insurer, or sharing an image of a child — in each case the coordinates in the file say more than the picture does.
Social platforms mostly strip EXIF when you upload, but that happens after the file reaches their servers, and it does nothing for a photo sent by email, chat or file transfer.
Reading iPhone photos
HEIC files are read directly rather than converted first, so an iPhone photo shows its real tags. That matters here more than anywhere: iPhones geotag by default, and HEIC is what they shoot.
If the viewer reports no EXIF at all, the file has genuinely been stripped — by a platform, an editor, or by this site's own metadata removal, which runs on every share by default.
Common questions
- Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
- It is sent to our server to be read, and then dropped — nothing is written to disk, no row is stored and no link is created. This is the only tool here that keeps nothing at all.
- Which formats carry EXIF?
- JPEG, HEIC and TIFF almost always. PNG sometimes. WebP, AVIF and GIF rarely carry anything worth showing.
- It says no EXIF found — is that right?
- Probably. Screenshots, exports and anything that has been through a social platform usually have none. It means the file is not carrying location or camera data.
- How do I remove what it found?
- Share the photo through this site — EXIF is stripped from JPEG and PNG by default — or run it through the converter, which re-encodes and drops it.
- Can you see my photo?
- The server parses the metadata block to answer this request and keeps nothing afterwards. The privacy policy commits to not inspecting or analysing file contents.