What does this photo reveal?

See what an image gives away before you share it: where and when it was taken, which device took it, hidden thumbnails, and what it claims about how it was made.

Images are read on this device and never uploaded, so it’s safe to check private photos.

What it checks

Cameras and phones save details with every photo, in blocks called EXIF, XMP and IPTC. Most are harmless, like the exposure time. Some are personal: the GPS location, the date and time, the phone or camera model and its serial number, and the names of the photographer or the people in the picture.

Many photos also carry a small copy of themselves, a thumbnail. Some editors don’t update it, so a cropped photo can still hold a thumbnail of the whole scene. This tool shows every embedded image and points out the ones shaped differently from the photo.

It also reads Content Credentials, a signed record of who made an image and with which tools, and AI-related metadata such as the labels AI image generators add.

What it can’t tell you

It reads metadata, not pixels. It can’t tell whether an image was made with AI if the file doesn’t say so, and missing metadata proves nothing: most apps and sites remove it, and anyone can edit it. Content Credentials are shown as recorded; their signatures aren’t checked here.

To remove what it finds, use “Download clean copy” under the summary. The cleaning options there choose what to remove; more about cleaning.