Drop a photo to see its GPS location on a map, plus camera, date, and other hidden metadata. Everything runs in your browser — your photo never leaves your device.
Choose any photo from your device. It is parsed directly in your browser with no upload, so it works offline and nothing is stored on a server.
If the photo contains GPS data, the exact coordinates appear on an interactive map, along with camera model, capture date, and exposure settings.
Most photos shared online have their GPS data stripped. When that happens, our AI location finder can identify the place from the image content itself.
Every photo taken with a phone or GPS-enabled camera can carry EXIF metadata — a hidden block of information that includes the exact GPS coordinates of where the shot was taken, the capture date and time, the camera model, and the exposure settings. An EXIF location viewer reads this block and plots the coordinates on a map, turning a file's invisible data into an answer to the question: where was this photo taken?
There is one big catch: most platforms remove EXIF data on upload. Facebook, Instagram, X, WhatsApp, and most messaging apps strip metadata to protect user privacy, and screenshots never contain it in the first place. So if the photo you're checking came from social media or a chat, the odds are high that this viewer will find no GPS data at all — not because the tool failed, but because the data is gone.
That's exactly why this tool is paired with an AI fallback. When EXIF data is missing, the photo itself still holds clues — building styles, street signs, vegetation, terrain. Upload the photo to our free AI location finder to identify where it was taken from the image content alone.
No. The EXIF parsing runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your photo never leaves your device, nothing is stored, and the tool even works offline once the page is loaded.
Either location services were off when the photo was taken, or the metadata was stripped afterwards. Social networks, messaging apps, and screenshots all remove GPS data automatically. For those photos, use our AI location finder, which identifies the place from the visual content instead.
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC/HEIF, TIFF and most RAW formats can be parsed for metadata. The clean-copy download is available for JPEG, PNG, and WebP images.
When present, EXIF GPS coordinates come from the device's GPS chip and are typically accurate to within 5–15 meters outdoors. Accuracy can degrade indoors or in dense urban areas where the phone relied on Wi-Fi or cell positioning.
Use the 'Download clean copy' button after loading your photo. It re-encodes the image in your browser, producing a copy with all EXIF metadata — including GPS coordinates — removed, so you can share it without revealing where it was taken.