Photo Investigator: GPS & EXIF
iOS app by Daniel Anderson. Photo & Video · Daniel Anderson
- Store rating
- 4.36 / 5
- Store rating count
- 1450
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 8.1.1
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-14
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Your photos know more than you think. Every image your iPhone takes secretly stores GPS coordinates, timestamps, and device details. And in the age of AI, it stores fingerprints that reveal whether the picture came from a camera or a machine. Photo Investigator shows you exactly what's hidden, and gives you the tools to remove what you don't want to share. NEW IN 8.1: AI IMAGE DETECTION Photo Investigator now flags AI-generated images using on-device metadata signals. No image leaves your phone. We check three layers: • C2PA Content Credentials: the signed provenance standard backed by Adobe, Microsoft, and others. When an AI tool signs an image cryptographically, we read the manifest and surface it. • XMP DigitalSourceType: the field that conforming AI generators write to declare origin (trainedAlgorithmicMedia). Used by Instagram, Facebook, and X for their "Made with AI" labels. • EXIF fingerprints: the gaps real cameras don't have. Authentic photos carry focal length, lens model, ISO, and a shutter timestamp. AI-generated images often don't, and some generators name themselves in the CreatorTool field. No signal is perfect. Screenshots and recompression erase a lot, but for unmodified AI exports the signals are usually there. We put them in front of you, on the metadata you already trust. THE PRIVACY TOOLS • Strip GPS: remove precise coordinates, altitude, and compass direction before sharing • Clear timestamps, device details, copyright, and creator fields • See at a glance whether a photo reveals where you live, work, or travel • Use the Photos editing extension to clean metadata without leaving Photos • Templates for one-tap presets across an entire photo selection • Edit confirmation: review every change before it's saved THE DEEPEST METADATA VIEWER ON iOS • Every EXIF, IPTC, and XMP field in one place: nothing hidden from you • GPS coordinates, altitude, direction, and UTC capture time • Camera make, model, lens, focal length, ISO, shutter speed, aperture, color space • IPTC: creator, copyright, description, keywords, credit, source • XMP: edit history, ratings, Content Credentials, AI provenance • Video: codec, resolution, frame rate, HDR data, plus audio export • Extended attributes (xattr): which app created the file, original filename, timezone, system-level fields iOS doesn't surface anywhere else • Depth maps, Live Photo flags, HDR flags, WebP hidden metadata, RAW support INSPECT FROM ANYWHERE • Photos editing extension: review and edit metadata without leaving Photos • Share sheet extension: inspect any file's metadata from Messages, Files, or any app • Open any location instantly in Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, or Maps.me • Browse your full photo and video library with metadata visible at a glance MADE FOR • Privacy-conscious users who share photos online and want to know what they're broadcasting • Journalists and investigators verifying image authenticity and provenance • Photographers managing camera sett
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