EXIF Viewer
See the camera, the settings and the location a photo carries.
Everything runs inside your browser. Your files never leave your device.
Drop your files here
.jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff · they stay on this device
Ask about EXIF Viewer
Questions about what this tool does, which option to pick, or what it can and cannot handle.
The question you type here is sent to an AI provider to be answered — your files and whatever you put in the tool above are not, and the assistant cannot see them. Answers are generated and can be wrong. The tool itself is not guessing: it runs deterministic code on your device.
About the EXIF Viewer
Every photograph from a phone or a camera carries metadata alongside the pixels: which device took it, the lens, the exposure settings, the exact moment, and — this is the one that matters — frequently the coordinates where it was taken, accurate to a few metres.
This reads that data out and shows it. Camera settings for the curious or the learning, timestamps for anyone reconstructing a sequence of events, and the location if it is there.
The location is the reason most people arrive at a page like this. A photograph taken at home and posted publicly can carry the coordinates of the house. That is not a hypothetical risk; it is the mechanism behind a documented category of incident, and it is invisible unless something reads the file. There is an option to confirm a position exists without displaying it, for when you want to check before sharing rather than see the coordinates yourself.
No map is shown, and that is deliberate rather than an omission. Rendering a map means requesting tiles from a map provider, and that request would tell the provider the coordinates of your photograph — which is precisely the exposure you came here to check. The coordinates are given in decimal degrees for you to look up wherever you choose.
EXIF is a JPEG and TIFF convention. PNG and WebP store metadata differently and screenshots generally have none at all, so those are not accepted rather than reported as empty.
When you want the data gone rather than shown, the metadata removal tool strips all of it and re-encodes the image.
How to use it
- 1Drop in the JPEG or TIFF files you want to inspect.
- 2Read the report: camera and lens, exposure settings, timestamps, and location if present.
- 3Switch off the location option to confirm a position exists without putting the coordinates on screen.
- 4Run the images through the metadata removal tool before publishing anything that carries a position.
Questions
- Does my photograph really contain my location?
- If location services were enabled for the camera, yes, to within a few metres. It is stored in the file and travels with it, and most sharing methods preserve it. This tool tells you for certain.
- Why is there no map?
- Because loading map tiles would send the coordinates to a map provider, which is exactly the disclosure you are here to prevent. The coordinates are shown as numbers so you can look them up somewhere of your own choosing.
- Why will it not read my PNG?
- EXIF is a JPEG and TIFF convention. PNG and WebP have their own metadata containers, and screenshots typically carry nothing at all. Accepting those and reporting them empty would be misleading.
- Do social networks strip this data?
- Most strip location when publishing, though not consistently across every upload path, and stripping on publication does not mean it was never received. Removing it before uploading is the only version you control.