EXIF Viewer
See exactly what a photo is carrying: the camera and lens that took it, the exposure settings, the timestamps, the software that touched it, and the GPS coordinates if location was on. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is modified — this page only reads. If you want the metadata gone instead of listed, Remove EXIF strips it without touching a single pixel.
Drop photos here
JPG works best · PNG, WebP, and TIFF are also parsed · nothing is changed
How to view EXIF data
- Drop in one or more photos.
- Click Read metadata. Each file gets a card, grouped into camera, exposure, timing, image, and rights.
- If the photo carries coordinates, a Location block appears with the values in degrees and in decimal, plus a map link you can choose to open.
What the exposure fields mean
- ExposureTime — shutter speed. 1/1000 freezes motion; 1/30 and slower risks camera shake without a tripod.
- FNumber — aperture. Lower numbers (f/1.8) mean a shallower depth of field and more light.
- ISO — sensor sensitivity. Higher means brighter and noisier; anything over about 3200 on a phone will show grain.
- FocalLength — the lens's actual focal length. FocalLengthIn35mmFilm is the comparable number across different sensor sizes.
- Software — often the giveaway that a photo has been edited, and by what.
The privacy part
The field worth taking seriously is GPS. A photo of the inside of a house, posted publicly with coordinates attached, is a home address published to anyone who looks — and "anyone who looks" includes automated scrapers, not just people who know how. Phones make this the default when camera location access is granted. Two habits fix it: turn off location for the camera app if you do not need it, and strip metadata from anything you publish. Check what a file holds here, then clean it with Remove EXIF.
FAQ
What is EXIF data?
A block of metadata that cameras and phones write into the image file: make and model, lens, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focal length, the exact date and time, orientation, editing software, and — on any phone with location services enabled for the camera — the latitude and longitude where the shot was taken. It travels with the file unless something strips it.
This photo shows no EXIF at all. Is it broken?
Almost certainly not. Screenshots have never had EXIF. Most social platforms strip metadata on upload, so a photo saved from Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp arrives clean. Anything that has been re-saved through a browser canvas — including by the other tools on this site — loses it too. No EXIF usually means the file has been through a pipeline, not that it is damaged.
Does opening a photo here send it anywhere?
No. The file is parsed in this page, and the only outbound link is the OpenStreetMap URL you may choose to click — clicking it tells OpenStreetMap the coordinates, so if that matters to you, read the numbers instead. Nothing happens automatically.
Can I trust what EXIF says?
Treat it as a claim, not proof. Every field is editable with ordinary software, timestamps come from a clock that may be wrong or in the wrong time zone, and any editing step may have rewritten or removed parts of it. EXIF is strong evidence when it is present and consistent, and weak evidence of anything when it is absent.
How do I remove this data?
Use Remove EXIF. It deletes the metadata segments at the byte level and leaves the compressed image data bit-for-bit identical — no re-encoding, no quality loss, unlike tools that simply re-save the photo.
Why does my photo look rotated in one app and not another?
The Orientation tag. Cameras record the sensor image as-shot and add a tag saying "rotate this by 90°" — apps that honour the tag show it upright, apps that ignore it show it sideways. Rotate / flip JPG fixes it permanently by baking the rotation into the pixels.