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What is hidden inside your photo
A photo taken on a phone usually carries more than the picture: where it was taken, which camera took it, and often a serial number that links every photo from that camera. This reads them, and removes them if you want.
What is inside the file
Choose a photo to see what it carries.
What this does not tell you
What a photo carries besides the photo
A JPEG from a phone or a camera contains a metadata block written by the device. Most of it describes the exposure: shutter speed, aperture, focal length. None of that matters to a buyer or to you. Two fields do.
The first is location. If the camera app had permission, the file records where the photo was taken, to a precision of a few metres. For a seller photographing stock at home, that is a home address travelling inside every listing image. Nothing in the picture reveals it and no upload form mentions it.
The second is the camera body serial number, which some cameras write into every file. On its own it identifies nobody. Its effect is connective: it links every photo taken with that camera, including ones published somewhere else, under a different name, for a different purpose.
Everything else in the block is a description of a moment of light. This tool names the fields that are worth a decision and counts the rest, rather than presenting fifty rows and leaving you to find the two that matter.
What this does not do
Stated because a privacy tool that overstates its reach is worse than none: it produces confidence rather than safety.
- It reads JPEG metadata. PNG and WebP carry different structures that this reader does not decode, and it says so rather than reporting them as clean.
- It does not claim that any marketplace strips metadata on upload. Some do, some do not, and each would need its own dated source.
- It does not reach copies that are already published, already sent, or still in your phone's library.
- It does not modify the file you gave it. The cleaned image is a separate download.
- It shows an approximate location, rounded to whole degrees, rather than the exact coordinates the file contains.
Questions
Does my photo get uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is read in your browser and the cleaned copy is produced there too. There is no request carrying image data, which you can confirm in your browser's network panel; this site makes no third-party requests at all.
Why is the location only approximate here?
Because printing exact coordinates on screen would repeat the leak in a form that can be screenshotted or shared. Rounding to whole degrees is enough to tell you the field is there and roughly where it points, and not enough to find anyone.
Will the cleaned image look worse?
It is encoded at high quality, so the difference is usually invisible at listing sizes. It is still a second compression, and if you need the original quality for print or archiving, keep the original file.
Does removing metadata remove the photo from anywhere?
No. It produces a new file on your device. Copies already published or already sent are unaffected, and so is the original in your phone's library.