EXIF Data Viewer and Remover
Drop a photo and see everything your camera recorded — or strip it all before sharing.
Drop your image here
JPG works best for EXIF data. PNG and WebP usually have none.
How to view and remove EXIF data
Drop a JPEG photo
Drag in any JPEG file. The metadata is read locally — nothing is uploaded.
Read the metadata
Camera make and model, date taken, GPS coordinates, ISO, aperture, shutter speed — all shown in a clean table.
Strip it
Click Remove EXIF to get a clean copy of the image with all metadata removed.
Download the clean image
Save the stripped version. Same image, no metadata.
What your photos are sharing without you knowing
Every photo you take on a modern smartphone contains a lot more than the image itself. The file includes the exact GPS coordinates of where you took the photo, the device make and model, the date and time down to the second, and often the camera app used.
When you upload that photo to a forum, send it in an email, or post it anywhere that preserves the original file, that metadata goes with it. Anyone who downloads the file and opens its properties can see all of that information.
Most social media platforms strip EXIF on upload. But many file sharing services, email attachments, and direct image links do not. If you are sharing a photo of your house, your workplace, or anywhere identifiable, stripping the EXIF before sharing is a simple privacy step that takes two clicks with this tool.
What each field tells someone who opens your photo
The viewer groups what it finds into the fields below. Most of them are harmless on their own. The combination, and the GPS pair in particular, is what makes metadata worth checking before you share.
How removing the metadata works here
When you strip a photo, the tool draws its pixels onto a blank canvas and saves that as a new file. Only the picture is copied. The EXIF block, and any other metadata packet the original carried, is simply never written to the new file.
One honest trade off: the clean copy is saved as PNG. That keeps every pixel exact, but a PNG of a photograph is usually larger than the JPEG it came from. If the size matters, run the clean file through the compress tool afterwards. Compressing does not put metadata back.
Check before you strip. If you are a photographer sending work to a client, the copyright and artist fields are information you probably want to keep. Stripping is the right default for sharing personal photos with strangers, not for every file.
Which files carry EXIF at all
Photos straight from a camera or phone almost always carry a full EXIF block, usually as JPEG, or HEIC on recent iPhones. TIFF files from scanners and cameras carry it too.
Screenshots, images exported from design tools, and pictures that have already passed through a social platform usually carry little or nothing. Most large platforms remove EXIF when you upload, which is why a photo saved back from a feed often shows an empty result here. Messaging apps, email attachments and file sharing links are the channels that most often keep it intact.
For a fuller look at what platforms keep and remove, and the real cases where photo metadata exposed people, see our guide to EXIF data and privacy.
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