EXIF Viewer
See the camera, date and location data hidden in a photo.
Drop a photo here
JPEG files carry the most metadata. The file is read on your device and never uploaded.
Reading the file…
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Your photo is read on your device and never uploaded.
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About the Pathine EXIF Viewer
Every photograph a phone or camera takes carries a hidden record: which camera, which lens, the shutter speed and aperture, the exact second it was taken, and — if location services were on — the coordinates of where you were standing. This shows you all of it.
That data is genuinely useful when you want it. It is also attached to every photo you send, post or upload, and most people have never seen what is in there. Looking is the first step to deciding whether you mind.
The file is read in this browser tab. Given that the whole point is inspecting a photograph's private details, uploading it to a server to find out would rather defeat the exercise.
When you'd reach for it
Checking what a photo gives away
Before posting a picture taken at home, it is worth knowing whether it carries the coordinates of your front door. Very often it does.
Learning from a photograph
Shutter speed, aperture, ISO and focal length are how a shot was actually made. Reading them off pictures you like is one of the fastest ways to improve.
Establishing when something was taken
Insurance claims, property records and disputes often hinge on a date. The capture timestamp is more reliable than a file modification date, which changes whenever the file is copied.
Checking a camera is set up right
Wrong clock, wrong white balance, a lens you did not think was mounted — the metadata makes configuration mistakes obvious after the fact.
How to view a photo's EXIF data
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Add a photo
Drop it here, paste it, or choose a file. JPEGs from phones and cameras carry the most; images exported from design tools often carry none at all.
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Read the fields
Grouped by camera, exposure, dates and everything else, with values shown the way people read them — f/2.8 and 1/250s rather than raw sensor numbers.
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Check for a location
If the photo carries coordinates they appear with a link to the map and a copy button. If there is no location block, there was no location in the file.
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Remove it if you want to
The EXIF Remover strips all of this and hands back a clean copy, without altering a single pixel of the photograph.
Common questions
What is EXIF data?
A block of information the camera writes into the image file alongside the picture — make and model, exposure settings, orientation, timestamps, sometimes a lens serial number, and sometimes GPS coordinates. It travels with the file wherever it goes.
Why does my photo have no EXIF?
Several things strip it. Screenshots never had any. Most social platforms remove it on upload, so a photo saved from one comes back bare. Editing and re-exporting often drops it too, as does any tool that redraws the image.
Can EXIF really show where a photo was taken?
Yes, to within a few metres, if location services were enabled for the camera. This is the single most sensitive field in the file, and it is on by default on many phones.
Does it work with PNG, HEIC or RAW?
This reads EXIF from JPEG, which is where the overwhelming majority of it lives. PNG stores metadata in a different structure and RAW formats each use their own, so those are reported as carrying nothing rather than being misread.
Is my photo uploaded to read it?
No. The bytes are parsed in this browser tab. Sending a photo to a server in order to find out what private information it contains would be a strange way to run this tool.