Location
The spot you were standing on
Coordinates, altitude, the direction the lens faced, how fast you were moving. Drawn on a map. Social apps usually strip this out. Messaging, email and cloud drives usually don't.
The report
One photo in. The whole file out.
Hand it a photo. The checks run at once and fill in as they land. The verdict sits on top. The evidence sits under it, all of it, unsummarized.
What it finds
What a photo gives away.
None of it shows up in the picture. All of it travels with the file when you send it.
Identity
Your phone, your minute, your name
The device model. The capture time down to the second. Any name, copyright line or serial number a camera or an editor wrote into the file without telling you. Each one flagged before it leaves your hands.
Hidden fields
Every field, decoded
The full EXIF read, plus Apple's private tags: how long your iPhone had been awake, how you were holding it, the identifier that ties a Live Photo to its video.
Machine vision
What an AI reads in the frame
Faces, people and pets. Readable text. QR codes and the links inside them. The concepts a classifier recognizes, each with the confidence it puts on them. And the spot an eye goes to first.
Share sheet
Check it on the way out
Hit share and Image Inspector can hand you a short report from inside the share sheet. The app never has to open.
Privacy
Runs on your iPhone, keeps nothing
Every check runs on the device. Metadata, faces, text, codes, labels, the tamper and AI checks, the content read. Nothing is uploaded. No account, and nothing left behind once you close the report.
What it makes of it
The file, read back to you.
It doesn't stop at listing the fields. It reads them against each other, works out what they mean, and shows you the parts of the file no viewer draws.
The story
Every field, retold as the moment
The day, the device, how you held it, where you stood, written as plain sentences. It works out the sun's height and direction, golden hour, and the sunset time for that spot from the coordinates and the clock alone. No lookup, no network.
Tamper check
Whether the file argues with itself
Capture time against the GPS satellite clock. Pixel dimensions against the real image. The embedded preview against the photo. The JPEG compression fingerprint against Apple's. When they disagree, that points to an edit after the shot. When they agree, it says so, and how many checks it ran.
AI & provenance
Whether a machine made it
Content Credentials (C2PA), the IPTC AI tags, and the fingerprints Midjourney, DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, Firefly and others leave behind, with the prompt when it's still in the file. A file with no marks is reported as unproven, never certified real.
File anatomy
Every byte, accounted for
The file drawn to scale as one bar: structure, metadata, preview, colour, the pixels, the companion HDR or depth map hiding alongside them. Tap a layer to see how much of the file it is and what it's doing there.
Walk back
Find where it was taken
When a photo carries GPS, it shows how far you stand from that spot right now. Inside 200 metres it adds an arrow that turns with your phone and points you back to it.
Clean copy
Strip it and save a fresh photo
Choose what to drop: location, date, camera, maker notes, hidden text. It saves a new photo without them and leaves the original where it was. The clean copy reads as clean to the app's own checks.
Guides
What your photos give away.
Sourced from vendor documentation and published testing, not from other articles. Including the three things everyone repeats about EXIF that turn out to be false.
How do I check if a photo has GPS location data on my iPhone?
The two-second check in the Photos app, and the location fields it hides from you.
How do I remove location data from a photo on iPhone?
Apple's own share sheet method, and what the Location toggle never promised to touch.
Which apps remove EXIF data when you share a photo?
Sixteen platforms rated by evidence quality, and four that nobody has actually verified.
What is EXIF data in a photo?
Every field an iPhone writes, decoded, including Apple's undocumented private tags.
Before you share
Look first.
One photo and a few seconds tell you what you have been handing out all along.
