What this shows
Add a photo and the tool lists what is stored in it before anything is changed: the GPS position and altitude, the make, model and serial number of the camera or phone, the lens, the exposure, the date and time taken, the software that last saved it, and whether a hidden thumbnail of the uncropped picture is still inside. Each item is marked by how much it gives away.
What it can’t show
What is in the picture itself. A number plate or a street sign is visible to anyone, metadata or not.
Then remove it
Everything the viewer lists can be taken out in the same step, without re-compressing the picture. The result is read again and shown, so you can see that the list is empty. For photos only, Remove EXIF data explains exactly what goes and what stays.
A worked example
A photo for a dating profile looks harmless. The viewer shows a GPS position in a residential street, a phone model and a time of 7:40 on a weekday morning. Cleaned, the same picture says none of it.
Questions
- What will I see?
- Everything the file carries beyond the picture, grouped by what it gives away: location, device, people, hidden pictures, time and editing history. A map link is shown for a GPS position, but no map loads until you click it.
- Can I check a PDF or a Word document too?
- Yes. The same tool reads documents, audio and video, and shows the author names, software and dates stored in them.
- Is the photo uploaded to read it?
- No. The file is read by your browser on your device. Online "EXIF viewers" that upload your photo have just been handed the very location you were checking for.
Your file stays on this device
The tool above runs in a sealed frame that cannot send your file anywhere. It works with airplane mode on, and the counter above it stays at 0. Here is how you can check that yourself.
Related tools
- Remove EXIF data Take the camera, date and location data out of a photo without changing the picture.
- Remove metadata Strip location, device and hidden previews from photos and documents.
- Remove location from a photo Take the GPS position out of a photo and keep everything else.
- Remove metadata from a PDF Remove the author, software, dates and earlier versions from a PDF.
- Remove metadata from a Word document Remove author names, comments' authors, tracked-change names and template paths from Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
- Remove GPS from a video Take location, device and dates out of a phone or action-camera video without re-encoding it.
- Redact PDF Black out names, emails and numbers so they are gone for good.
- Redact image Cover parts of a screenshot or photo with solid boxes.
- Find hidden content Check a PDF or Office file for hidden text, sheets, comments and tracked changes.
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