HEIC EXIF viewer

iPhone & iPad photo metadata · in-browser

“read the HEIC straight, no conversion”

iPhones save photos as HEIC. Drop one here to read its EXIF, GPS and colour data without converting it to JPEG first.

HEIC and its metadata

HEIC (an HEIF container holding HEVC-compressed images) is the default iPhone photo format since iOS 11. It stores the same metadata as a JPEG would: an EXIF block with the iPhone model, the specific lens (wide, ultra-wide, telephoto), exposure, and a capture timestamp with UTC offset, plus a GPS block if Location Services was enabled for the camera. This tool parses the HEIF box structure directly in the browser.

How to view iPhone photo metadata

  1. AirDrop, email or copy the .heic file to the device you are on.
  2. Drop it on the box above — no need to convert to JPEG.
  3. Read the camera, lens and exposure facts; open the GPS coordinates on a map if present.

Removing location from an iPhone photo

To share an iPhone photo without its location, either use iOS's own "Options → Location: off" when sharing, or convert the HEIC to JPEG and run it through remove EXIF data here for a fully stripped copy.

Also supported

JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, AVIF, GIF and RAW files from any camera. HEIC support depends on your browser being able to decode HEIF; recent Safari and Chrome builds can, and metadata parsing works regardless of whether the preview renders.

No. The metadata is read from the HEIC directly. Conversion would actually risk losing or changing tags.

Some browsers cannot render HEIF. The metadata is still parsed and shown — only the thumbnail image may be blank.

Yes, when present the EXIF lens model names the exact iPhone lens, e.g. "iPhone 14 Pro back triple camera 6.86mm f/1.78".

The still frame of a Live Photo is a normal HEIC with standard EXIF/GPS. The paired video is a separate file this tool does not read.