Plain-language explainers about what your photos carry and how to clean them.
A full explainer on metadata privacy — what metadata reveals about where you live and who you contact, the four kinds you generate daily, how the major platforms behave, and eight practical protection steps. Includes our own test of which EXIF fields survive five processing pipelines.
5 October 2026 · about 10 min readA field-by-field walk through a real photo's EXIF block: camera and lens, serial numbers, timestamps and GPS coordinates — and which of them actually matter for your privacy.
7 October 2026 · about 8 min readA short pre-publish checklist: strip metadata, then look at the picture itself for street signs, house numbers, documents and reflections that can identify a location just as easily.
7 October 2026 · about 8 min readWhat each major platform does with EXIF on upload, why the public copy being clean is not the whole story, and why cleaning the file first is the more reliable habit.
7 October 2026 · about 8 min readTurning off location tagging at the camera level on both platforms, plus how to clean photos you have already taken using a browser-based tool on the phone itself.
7 October 2026 · about 7 min readFour standards often lumped together as "metadata". What writes each one, what it stores, and why a tool that only clears EXIF can leave other blocks behind.
7 October 2026 · about 8 min readFour built-in ways to inspect a file — the iOS info panel, the Android details sheet, Windows Properties and Preview's Inspector — what each one leaves out, and how to read the whole record at once.
7 October 2026 · about 9 min readAuthor, company, last modified by, revision count and editing time — plus the tracked changes, comments and hidden text people forget. The built-in inspector, and a browser alternative that needs no install.
7 October 2026 · about 9 min readA drawn rectangle is an instruction, not a deletion: the text underneath stays selectable and the document keeps describing its own origins. What real redaction takes, in the right order.
7 October 2026 · about 9 min readMarketplace photos are taken at home and shown to strangers who may come and collect. A five-minute routine for the files and the frame, plus the setting that keeps future photos clean.
7 October 2026 · about 9 min readNo camera tags and no coordinates, because no camera was involved — but the file is not empty, and the contents of a screenshot usually reveal far more than any hidden field would.
7 October 2026 · about 8 min readAll eleven guides are published. New ones are added as we finish them. The home page also carries a full explainer covering what EXIF and GPS metadata are, the privacy risks, and how to remove metadata from photos step by step — start with that guide.