Can I see where a photo was taken?

If the file records it, yes — most phone photos carry GPS coordinates unless the camera was told not to. The viewer reports that the location is present and what that exposes, with the precise value masked on screen.

Is the photo uploaded to be read?

No. The file is read in your browser. An automated test records every request the page makes while a file is open and fails if any carries the file’s bytes.

Which formats does it read?

JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, GIF and TIFF. Word documents are checked too — their hidden data is a different list, but the same idea.

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Photo metadata viewer

Drop a photo here and see what its file carries beyond the picture: GPS coordinates, capture time, camera make and model, editing software. The reading happens in your browser — the photo is not uploaded to be inspected — and each field comes with a plain sentence on what it could be used for.

Most metadata viewers hand you a raw table of tag names. This one explains, and then offers the next step in the same place: a cleaned copy with the metadata removed.

Works today, in your browser. Photos open in the editor and Word documents are checked for hidden data; either way the file is read on your device and never uploaded.

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What the viewer shows

Everything the file declares about itself, grouped by what it means rather than by tag name: where the photo was taken, when, on what device, and what touched it since. Fields that identify a place or a person are explained, not just listed.

Why values are shown masked

Previews here are deliberately partial — enough for you to recognize your own data, not enough to be useful to anyone looking over your shoulder. The full value stays in the file, which stays on your device. The result object that drives this page has no field that can carry an unmasked value, by design.

From seeing it to removing it

A viewer that stops at showing you the problem leaves you to find a second tool. The same page produces a cleaned copy: metadata removed, JPEG image data preserved byte for byte, nothing uploaded at any point.

Questions

If the file records it, yes — most phone photos carry GPS coordinates unless the camera was told not to. The viewer reports that the location is present and what that exposes, with the precise value masked on screen.

We report no issues found, never “safe”. Absence of detections is not proof of absence, and detection is best-effort.