Your photos hide more than pixels—they carry data that can reveal where you were and what you used.

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. There’s a particularly arresting black-and-white image of a boy on Flickr, the photo-sharing site. The boy stands at home ...

Everyone enjoys a good photography-driven website, but folks with a technical eye can't look at an image without wondering what camera took that shot, what settings were used and where it was taken.

Exif data isn’t hard to find or to remove, but the steps vary a bit, depending on which device you are using. On a Windows computer, you can see whether a photo has Exif data attached to it by ...

So what is EXIF Data? Exchangeable Image File Format or EXIF is a standard that specifies the details behind an image and gives you a deeper look at images compressed in a JPEG configuration. EXIF is ...

To view EXIF metadata in the iPhone Photos app, open the desired photo, swipe up or tap the info (i) icon. This will display key metadata like location, camera settings, and date details. For more ...

Earlier this year we reported on an online service that would trawl through images posted online, looking for your camera’s serial number in the EXIF data. The site we mentioned, Stolencamerafinder ...

Removing EXIF data from images can help maintain your privacy. The easiest way to do it on Windows 11 is to right-click the ...

Back in “How to Keep Facebook from Snooping on Your Photos’ Locations” (31 May 2021), I lamented the fact that Photos in iOS and iPadOS had no way to display Exif data. Little did I know that just a ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...