View Image Metadata

Every step below runs on your own device. There is no server this file is sent to, so the order is exactly what happens: a read, a report, and then whatever you decide to do with what it says.

1. Choose the photo you want to check. Drop a JPEG, PNG or WebP onto the panel, or press Browse images. No photo to hand? Try the sample photo instead. The file is read where it already sits.
2. Read What this file contains. The summary names the format, the pixel size, the file size, and whether EXIF, GPS, XMP, an ICC profile and a recorded resolution are present, with a warning glyph beside GPS when location data is found.
3. Read the detail behind any row. Camera and capture (EXIF), Location (GPS), Colour profile (ICC), XMP, and Comments and text each show their own values below the summary, already open — nothing there needs a click. All detected fields is the one disclosure: press it to see the raw tags underneath them.
4. Copy a value, download the report, or remove what you found. Copy buttons sit beside the pixel size, the coordinates, the capture date and the camera model. Download report (JSON) saves the whole reading. If the file carries anything removable, Remove metadata goes straight to the tool that takes it out.

EXIF is a block most cameras and phones write into a JPEG (and sometimes a WebP) alongside the picture: the make and model of the camera, the lens, the exposure settings, the exact date and time the shutter was pressed, and often a serial number that ties every photo from that body together. It can also carry a small, genuinely visible thumbnail of the picture, generated at the moment of capture.

None of it is drawn into the picture itself — it sits in a separate part of the file a photo viewer does not usually show you, which is the whole reason a tool like this one exists. This page lists every curated field it finds under Camera and capture (EXIF), and the orientation tag specifically, since that is the one EXIF field that changes how a viewer displays the picture rather than merely describing it.

Yes. A phone with location services on writes GPS coordinates into a photo’s EXIF block by default — latitude, longitude, often an altitude and the exact time, all inside the same file as the picture. Posting, messaging or emailing the photo carries the coordinates along with it unless something strips them out first.

On a photo taken at home, that is a house number. The summary on this page marks a file that carries GPS data with a warning glyph beside the word Present, and the Location (GPS) section prints the coordinates in full, because deciding whether that matters is the reason to check in the first place.

Not on this site. The EXIF, GPS and XMP blocks sit outside the compressed picture data a JPEG, PNG or WebP carries — a JPEG’s picture data runs from its SOS marker to its EOI marker, a PNG’s sits in its image chunks with their own CRCs, and a WebP’s sits in its own image chunk — so removing the descriptive blocks around that data and copying it straight through leaves the picture byte for byte the same. The colour profile (ICC) is kept rather than removed, because it is not identity, it is colour: dropping it would shift how the picture displays while claiming the change was about privacy.

This page only reads, so it never removes anything itself. Want to take out what you just saw? Remove image metadata rewrites the file with the same byte-for-byte guarantee, and every report on this page that finds something removable links straight to it.

DPI — dots per inch — is a note in a JPEG or PNG header about how large the picture is meant to print. It is not a property of the pixels: a 4000 × 3000 photo is exactly that many pixels whether its header claims 72 DPI or 300, and two files with identical pixels can carry different numbers. A JPEG can even disagree with itself, recording one value in its JFIF header and a different one in its EXIF block.

The Resolution section on this page names the number a file carries, which header it came from, and the print size that number implies at the picture’s actual pixel dimensions. Need a specific number instead of just reading the current one? Change Image DPI writes it into every resolution field the file has, without touching a pixel.

An ICC profile is a small block that tells a screen or a printer what the colour numbers in a picture actually mean — which red is really being asked for, not just which number represents it. A photo edited in a wide colour space and displayed with no profile, or the wrong one, can show duller greens and shifted skin tones even though every pixel value is identical to the original file.

The Colour profile (ICC) section on this page names the profile’s description and its colour space when one is present, and its byte size — a profile is data, sometimes several kilobytes of it, sitting in the same file as the picture. It carries no personal information the way EXIF or GPS can, which is why it is the one thing a metadata removal tool keeps rather than strips.

The viewer never uploads the file: it reads the bytes in your browser and the request log of every test proves only same-origin GET requests. The code that parses EXIF, GPS, XMP and ICC data is downloaded to your device the same way the rest of this page is, and it runs there — a photo carrying coordinates that point at your front door is exactly the file this page is safest to check, because there is nowhere else for those coordinates to go.