A phone writes more into a photo than the picture: where you were standing, the second you pressed the button, the model of the phone. This reads it back out so you can see it before you share the file. Your photo is never uploaded — it is read on your device and stays there.
Drop a photo to inspect it
One at a time. JPEG, HEIC, PNG or WebP — whichever your phone or camera produced.
The file is opened in your browser and never sent anywhere. That matters on this page more than any other: a tool that tells you your photo carries your address must not be the thing that transmits it.
Location, date and time, camera, lens and exposure, each shown as written. If there are coordinates you can open them on a map, or go straight to removing the lot.
Your photo is never uploaded. It is read in your browser and stays on your device — there is no server side to this tool at all, and no part of the file or of what we found in it is sent anywhere. To be exact about what you would see if you checked: the page itself loads like any other page here, including its advertising slots, so your browser's network panel is not empty. What you will not find in any of those requests is your photograph, your coordinates, or anything else out of the file. The thumbnail you see is drawn from your own device's memory. The map link is the one exception and it is yours to take: coordinates reach Google only if you click it.
The coordinates a phone records are accurate to a few metres, which is the difference between a town and a doorstep. A set of holiday photos tells somebody where you stayed; a photo taken at home tells them where you live, and a photo of something for sale tells a stranger where to come and collect it. The date and time come along with it, so the pair also says when you were there.
Because turning coordinates into a place you recognise needs a map, and that is the map most people have. It is a link and nothing more: the coordinates are sent only if you click it, and nothing is looked up while you are reading this page. If you would rather not, the numbers are on screen and you can put them anywhere you like.
Probably, and it is good news. Screenshots carry almost nothing. Pictures that have been through a social network usually come back stripped, because most of the large ones remove metadata on upload — after reading it. A photo that has been edited and re-saved may have lost it too. If a photo straight off your phone shows no location, your camera app did not have permission to use it.
Yes — that is the other half of this, and it is a separate page: Remove EXIF data takes the whole metadata block off and hands back the picture unchanged. It does it by default, with no box to tick, so there is nothing to remember. This page exists so you can see what you are removing first.
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