EXIF Metadata Viewer

EXIF Metadata Viewer reads the EXIF tags embedded in your image files. Drop a JPEG, TIFF, PNG (with EXIF chunk), or HEIC / HEIF file, and we’ll show the camera info, timestamp, dimensions, GPS, and any other tags the camera or editor wrote.

What EXIF is

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is the standard metadata format used by digital cameras, phones, and image editing software. It’s how your phone remembers “shot on iPhone 15 Pro, f/1.78, 1/120s, ISO 64, GPS 40.7128°N 74.0060°W” without you typing any of it.

Privacy

EXIF data is a real privacy risk — many social-media sites strip it before displaying photos, but a raw download keeps it. This tool runs entirely in your browser: the image never leaves your tab. No upload, no telemetry.

What we show

• Camera: Make, Model, Lens info, software/version.
• Exposure: aperture, shutter, ISO, focal length, white balance, flash.
• Time: original capture time, digitization time.
• Image: dimensions, orientation, color space.
• GPS: latitude / longitude, altitude, timestamp. When present, an “Open in OpenStreetMap” link lets you see where the photo was taken.

About HEIC

Modern iPhones save photos as HEIC (HEIF). The EXIF data is stored in an ISO-BMFF wrapper. Our walker finds the meta-box’s Exif item and reads it. The non-EXIF camera-specific data (depth maps, moment-of-capture face detection) is left in the dark, since it’s not the metadata you usually want.

Limitations

• This tool doesn’t strip EXIF (Google has a useful website for that). It only reads it.
• Maker notes (camera-specific tags) are listed as raw bytes — decoding the manufacturer-specific format requires per-camera code that’s out of scope.
• GPS altitude reference (height above or below sea level) is shown in the value field — we don’t compute it into meters.

Privacy note about GPS

If you upload a phone photo to social media without stripping it first, the GPS coords are public. Always strip before sharing — or use a service that’s known to drop it.