Pretty scary, right? Yet, most people don’t even know or think about the amount of information they share when posting a photo online. Open up a terminal and type exiftool path_to_photo ( replace path_to_photo with the location of the photo on your drive and include the format ) Now let’s see what’s Exiftool capable of. If you open the photo in Preview and hit cmd+I ( or go to Tools > Show Inspector ) you’ll notice quite a bit of info. If you’re running macOS, you can quickly view a photo’s metadata by switching to gallery view in Finder. NOTE: the process is the same on all platforms ( Linux, macOS, and Windows ). To demo how to use ExifTool to remove metadata from a photo, I’m going to use this photo from flickr.įlickr does not remove Exif data by default, and it’s displayed on the photo page, but that’s not important for demo purposes. ![]() To learn what it’s capable of, once installed on your system, make sure to read the manual exiftool -help NOTE: ExifTool is a powerful and complex tool. Windows: download ExifTool for Windows from the official website ( linked above ) MacOS: you can install it via Homebrew with brew install exiftool
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