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Inspection
View the Exif data in a photo
Every photograph from a phone or camera carries a block of metadata. This shows you what is in yours, including the coordinates, if it has them.
What is in this file
What Exif is for, and why it leaks
Exif exists so your camera can record how a picture was taken: shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focal length, the model, the time, and which way up the camera was held. It is genuinely useful. Photographers use it constantly.
The problem is that it travels. Phones add GPS coordinates by default, precise to a few metres. Share a photo taken at home and you may be sharing your address. Most social platforms strip metadata on upload, but email attachments, cloud links, messaging apps in file mode and marketplace listings frequently do not.
If this page shows coordinates for a photo you are about to send somewhere public, run it through remove image metadata first. That strips the tags without re-compressing the picture, so nothing is lost visually.
Common questions
My photo shows no Exif at all. Is that a problem?
No, it is usually good news. Screenshots have none, and anything already processed by a social platform or an editor has often had it removed.
Why does it not read PNG or WebP?
Those formats can carry metadata but do it differently and far less consistently. Exif as most people mean it is a JPEG convention.
Can Exif be faked?
Easily. It is just bytes in the file and anyone can edit them. Treat it as a strong hint, never as proof of when or where something was taken.
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