See what your photos are carrying
A phone photo records where it was taken, when, and on which device. Here is every field in yours, including the ones inside an iPhone’s HEIC, with the coordinates plotted where they fall — and a button that takes the lot off a JPEG, PNG or WebP.
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Questions
What does a photo actually record about me?
Typically the camera or phone model, the exact date and time, the exposure settings, often a device serial number, and — if location services were on — the GPS coordinates where the shutter was pressed. Every field found in your file is listed, and the coordinates are plotted on a grid of latitude and longitude. It is deliberately not a real map: map tiles would have to be fetched from someone else’s server, and asking a stranger for the map of where you were rather defeats the point.
Does removing EXIF make a photo anonymous?
No, and it is worth being plain about that. Stripping metadata removes the fields stored alongside the picture. It does not change the picture: a street sign, a view from a window or a face is still in it. Nor does it affect what a platform records or re-adds when you upload the file there.
Will removing metadata change how the photo looks?
The pixels are untouched. One field does affect display — the orientation tag, which tells a viewer to rotate the image — and it is put back when the rest of the Exif goes, in a JPEG, a PNG and a WebP alike, so a photo that appeared upright before still appears upright afterwards. Untick that box and the turn goes with everything else.
Can I remove only some of it?
Yes, a block at a time. Exif, XMP, IPTC, the colour profile and the orientation tag are each kept or dropped on their own — so you can drop the whole Exif block, which is where the GPS coordinates, the device serial and the capture time all live, while keeping the IPTC copyright line and the colour profile. IPTC is the one that depends on the container: a JPEG holds it in a segment of its own, a PNG only ever has it as the text chunk ImageMagick writes, and a WebP cannot carry IPTC at all, so on a WebP that tick has nothing to act on. Picking individual fields out of a block is not offered: an Exif block is a web of internal offsets, and editing entries out of one in place is how a metadata tool starts producing files that only half open.