What your files are hiding, and what you can do about it.
The iPhone saves photos as HEIC, with location, model and an identifier linking them to your photo library. What is inside and how to remove it without converting them or dimming the HDR.
Many ways of “removing” metadata actually recompress the photo, and some do not even remove it. We measured it: what changes and how to avoid it.
Three sites for removing EXIF, tested with the same files: what they upload, what they remove, whether they re-encode and how they differ. Two are ours, and we say so.
What WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, X, Apple and Google say about the metadata in the photos you send, what others have measured and what nobody has checked yet.
What your photos and documents say about you without you seeing it, and four real cases where metadata gave someone away. Without exaggerating: with sources.
What a photo says about you before you send it: how to check on your phone, on Windows, on Mac and online, and why it is best done without uploading it.
1.0.1 is out on the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store. What it fixes, what the desktop app does that the website cannot, and what is free.
Your photos store the exact coordinates where you took them. Here is how to check, and how to strip them without losing quality.
A video shot on a phone stores coordinates just like a photo does, somewhere less well known.
Author, company, editing time and the software used travel inside the document even though they appear on no page.