EXIF Viewer
See the hidden metadata in a photo, including where it was taken.
File
Result
Your converted file will appear here.
About the EXIF Viewer converter
Every photo a phone or camera takes carries a block of data alongside the picture. Some of it is useful — the exposure settings, the lens. Some of it identifies you: the exact coordinates where you stood, and the serial number of the camera body.
Drop a photo in and see the lot, laid out with the location first, because that is usually the part that matters.
What a photo can give away
GPS coordinates are the obvious one, and they are precise enough to identify a specific building. A photo posted from home tells anyone who looks where home is.
The camera body serial number is the quieter risk. It is stable across every photo that camera takes, so two anonymous photos posted years apart can be linked to each other — and to any photo where the owner was named.
Where the data lives
In a JPEG, EXIF sits in an APP1 marker segment near the start of the file, holding a small TIFF structure. XMP is a separate APP1 block of XML, and IPTC data lives in an APP13 segment left by editing software.
PNG uses named chunks instead: `tEXt` and `iTXt` for text, and `eXIf` for the same TIFF structure a JPEG uses. All of them are read here.
Reading, not decoding
The file is parsed as bytes rather than loaded as an image, so nothing is decompressed and a large photo is read as quickly as a small one.
It also means a file that a browser refuses to display — a truncated download, say — can still have its metadata read.
Frequently asked questions
My photo shows no location. Does that mean it never had one?
Not necessarily. Most social platforms strip EXIF when you upload, so a photo saved from one has usually already lost it. A photo straight off a phone is the one to check.
What is the orientation tag for?
It records which way up the camera was held, so viewers can rotate the picture rather than the camera rewriting the pixels. It is why a photo can look correct in one app and sideways in another.
Which formats are supported?
JPEG and PNG. Those are what cameras, phones and screenshots produce, and both store metadata in a documented structure that can be read without decoding the image. HEIC and RAW files use containers this does not parse.
Is my photo uploaded?
No, and on this page that matters more than anywhere else on the site. The whole point is to find or remove the location a photo records, and every tool that asks you to upload it first has already been given the thing you were trying to protect. This runs in your browser and works with the network off.