Online EXIF Metadata Viewer

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is data your camera or phone embeds inside every photo it takes: camera and lens model, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, the exact date and time, and often the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken. It travels with the image file itself.

No. This viewer runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your photo is read locally on your device and never leaves it — there is no server, no upload, and no account. Once the page has loaded, it even works offline.

Most social and messaging apps — WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, X — strip EXIF metadata when a photo is shared, and screenshots contain almost none to begin with. To see the full metadata, check the original file straight from the camera, sent via email, AirDrop, or a cloud drive.

On iPhone and iPad, the EXIF Viewer by Fluntro app can remove EXIF metadata — including GPS geotags — from one photo or hundreds at once, directly in your photo library, and lets you share any photo with or without its metadata. It is a one-time purchase with no subscription.

JPEG, HEIC/HEIF (the iPhone default), TIFF, PNG and AVIF, plus many TIFF-based RAW formats such as CR2 and NEF. Support for RAW files varies by camera maker.

If a photo still contains its GPS metadata, upload it here and the viewer shows the exact latitude and longitude, plus one-tap links to open the spot in Google Maps, Apple Maps, or OpenStreetMap. Note that most photos posted to social media have had this location data removed.

Yes, when the maker and model tags are present. The report shows the camera or phone model, the lens, and the exposure settings (aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length). If those tags were stripped, the tool will tell you none were found.

This viewer works in any modern browser on any device — iPhone, Android, Mac, or Windows — with no install. On iPhone and iPad, the EXIF Viewer by Fluntro app also reads metadata directly from your photo library and can edit or remove it.

With most online viewers your photo is sent to a server, which is a privacy risk for images with GPS or personal metadata. This tool is different: it reads everything on your own device in the browser and uploads nothing, so your photo never leaves your computer or phone.

EXIF can offer clues. A Software tag naming an editor, or missing camera and lens fields, can indicate a photo was processed or exported by an app rather than captured by a camera. Metadata alone is not proof, since it can be edited or removed, but it is a useful first check.

EXIF is written by the camera and covers technical capture data like exposure, date, and GPS. IPTC and XMP are mostly added later and hold descriptive information such as captions, keywords, creator, and copyright. This viewer reads all three when they are present.

No. Metadata is separate information stored alongside the image pixels, so removing it does not recompress or degrade the picture. Stripping EXIF only deletes the extra data such as GPS and camera settings; the photo itself looks identical.

Yes, viewing metadata and saving the PDF report here are completely free, with no account and no upload. For editing or bulk-removing metadata on iPhone and iPad, the EXIF Viewer by Fluntro app is a one-time purchase with no subscription.