EXIF Viewer & Remover
View hidden EXIF metadata from photos (camera, date, GPS) and remove it.
Written by Anil Gautam · Updated
What does the EXIF table show, and what does it miss?
The viewer reads JPEG files only. It finds the first EXIF block and lists the fields from its main directory when they are present: Make, Model, Orientation, X Resolution, Y Resolution, Software, Date Time and White Point. Dates use the EXIF layout with colons, such as 2026:09:14 18:42:07, and Date Time records when the file was last written, so editing software can change it. Orientation 1 means the pixels are already upright, 6 and 8 tell viewers to turn the image 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise, and 3 means 180 degrees. An X Resolution of 72 is only a print hint and has no effect on the pixel size.
Exposure time, aperture, ISO, lens details and the original capture date sit in a separate EXIF sub-directory, and GPS coordinates sit in another one. The viewer does not open those directories, so a photo can carry a location even when the table shows nothing about it. Downloading still removes them, because the whole EXIF block is dropped. PNG, WebP and HEIC files always get the 'No EXIF data found' message, since only JPEG is parsed. The download button appears only when the table finds at least one field, so a JPEG that stores XMP ahead of its EXIF block, or XMP alone, shows nothing and cannot be cleaned here.
What does the download remove, and what can change?
The clean copy is built by walking through the JPEG segment by segment. Every application segment, APP0 to APP15, is dropped, which covers the JFIF header, EXIF, XMP, embedded color profiles and Photoshop or IPTC blocks. Quantization tables, Huffman tables and the compressed image data are copied byte for byte, so nothing is re-encoded and the pixel data stays identical. Anything stored after the image data, such as the video part some phones attach to motion photos, is copied as well. IMG_2041.jpg downloads as IMG_2041-no-exif.jpg.
Many phones save a portrait photo as landscape pixels plus Orientation 6, so once EXIF is gone, viewers show that photo sideways. A photo saved with a wide-gamut profile such as Display P3 also loses the profile, and apps then assume sRGB, which can make colors look slightly duller. If either matters, run the photo through Image Compressor instead: it redraws the image upright and in sRGB, and the new JPEG carries no EXIF, at the cost of one more lossy save.