EXIF Viewer & Remover

EXIF is a block of information the camera writes into the file alongside the image: make and model, the date and time, exposure settings, often the lens serial number, and — if location services were on — the GPS position. Phones write it by default. It is genuinely useful for organising a photo library, and genuinely revealing when the photo leaves your hands.

Usually within a few metres, because it comes from the phone's GPS rather than from the network. That is precise enough to identify a specific building, which is why a holiday photo is harmless and a photo taken at home is not.

Opening a map would send the coordinates to whoever runs that map — on the page that exists to tell you those coordinates are private. The numbers are shown so you can paste them wherever you choose, and that choice stays yours.

No. Only the metadata block is dropped; the compressed image data is copied across byte for byte, so there is no re-encoding and no quality loss. The saved file is a few kilobytes smaller and looks identical, because it is identical.

No — that is a normal and good result. Screenshots never carry EXIF, and most messaging apps strip it when they re-compress an image, so a photo that reached you through one of them usually arrives clean.

JPEG, PNG and WebP. JPEG is where camera EXIF lives. PNG matters for a different reason: screenshots are PNGs and editors stamp their name and often a timestamp into its own tEXt fields, which are not EXIF at all — reading only JPEG meant telling anyone who dropped a screenshot in that their file was clean when it was not. WebP keeps a full EXIF block in its RIFF stream. A compressed iTXt block inside a PNG is skipped rather than guessed at.