View EXIF online: capture date, location and camera of a photo

How to view the EXIF of a photo

1. Choose a photo. Click “Choose photos” or drag files into the frame. On Android the browser receives photos without a geotag — to see where a photo was taken, compress it into a .zip archive in “My Files” or rename it to “name.jpg.bin” and select that, or choose the original file on a computer.
2. Check the date and location. The capture date comes first, with its source; below are the coordinates with links to Google Maps, Yandex Maps and OpenStreetMap.
3. Save the metadata. All tags are in the “All metadata” block under the photo; the “Download XLSX” button exports them to an Excel table, “Download JSON” — to a file for programs.

How to find out when a photo was taken

The exact date and time of capture is the EXIF tag DateTimeOriginal, and the time zone is OffsetTimeOriginal: the page shows them first. Below are all the other dates found, with their source: the digitisation and modification dates, the date from XMP, GPS satellite time (UTC), the date from the file name (IMG_20260928_123456, photo_2026-09-28_12-34-56) and the file modification date. If the metadata contains no date, the page will warn you: the file modification date often matches the date of copying or downloading, not of capture.

How to find out where a photo was taken

The shooting location is stored in the GPS block: latitude, longitude, altitude above sea level, camera direction and accuracy. The page shows the coordinates in degrees and in the ° ′ ″ format and opens the point in Google Maps, Yandex Maps or OpenStreetMap with one click. The coordinates can be copied and pasted into any maps app. On Android you can view EXIF even without a browser — EXIF viewers on Google Play.

Which camera and software took the photo

The manufacturer and model of the phone or camera, lens, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focal length and flash — from the EXIF block. The “Software” row (the Software tag or XMP CreatorTool) shows what wrote the file: the camera firmware version, the iOS version or an editor — Photoshop, Lightroom, GIMP. If there is an editor there, the photo was processed after it was taken.

Several photos and export to Excel

Choose several files at once: a summary table will appear on top, from the newest shots to the oldest — the date, coordinates, camera, software and size of each photo — and below, in the same order, a detailed card for each. The “Download XLSX — all EXIF fields” button saves an Excel table: the “Photos” sheet (one row per shot, all tags in columns) and the “All tags” sheet (file, block, tag, value). There is also a JSON export for programs.

Why a photo has no EXIF or geotag

• saving the location is switched off in the camera — there will be no coordinates, the date will remain;
• Android removed the geotag when handing the photo to the browser — it does this both with the gallery and with “Files”. It does not touch an archive or a file with a different extension: compress the photo in “My Files” (“Compress”) and choose the .zip archive here (in the picker, with a long press) or rename the photo to “name.jpg.bin”; or choose the original file on a computer (via a USB cable or sent to yourself in Telegram “as a file”);
• the photo went through a messenger or social network — they remove EXIF (in Telegram send it “as a file”);
• it is a screenshot, an image from an editor or from a website — these usually have no metadata.

How to remove EXIF before sending

You can remove the geotag or all the metadata right in the browser, without losing quality and without uploading to a server — Remove EXIF online. To stop the location being recorded at all, turn off the geotag in the camera settings; messengers remove EXIF from photos sent as an image rather than as a file.

• iPhone: in the “Share” sheet tap “Options” at the top and turn off “Location” — the location will not be sent with the photo.
• Android: in the “Share” window or in the gallery look for “Remove location data”; to remove all metadata — apps for removing EXIF and geotags on Google Play.

You can check the result right here: choose the resulting copy — it should have no GPS block.

How to change the date or location in EXIF

This page only displays metadata. You can correct the capture date, coordinates or camera like this:

• iPhone (iOS 15 and later): open the photo in “Photos”, swipe up or tap “i”, then “Adjust” — next to the date and time or the location.
• Android: EXIF editors on Google Play — change the date, time, coordinates and other tags.
• Computer: the free program ExifTool (Windows, macOS, Linux) — edits any tags, including those of hundreds of photos at once.

After editing, choose the file here again and check the date and coordinates.

The photo stays on your device

The file is read in the browser by the exifr library, which is hosted on this site; neither the photo nor its date and coordinates are sent to the server, and the links to maps open directly. More details in the privacy help article. OrgCatalog reads the date and coordinates of its own photos in the same way, to place them on the map and in the section “What's new”.

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