Part 5 of 7 · EXIF info
EXIF info
HEIC files carry a lot besides pixels: capture time, camera and lens, exposure, sometimes GPS coordinates. Two separate features deal with that metadata, and they do not affect each other.
Save EXIF info
In the settings strip, ticked by default. While it is ticked the converted file keeps the EXIF, XMP and IPTC blocks from the source — the shot date, camera model and location survive. Untick it and those blocks are stripped from the output.
The colour profile is always kept, whatever you choose here. Dropping it as well would shift the colours of the converted photo — stripping GPS should not repaint your image.
Show EXIF
A read-only window listing every tag the app can read from one file. It opens on the row you have selected; if nothing is selected it uses the first ticked row, then the first row in the list. With an empty list the button is greyed out.
- The header shows the file name, format, pixel dimensions and file size.
- Each row is a tag and its value. Values can be selected and copied individually.
- Copy All puts the whole list on the clipboard as
Tag: valuelines, ready to paste into a support mail. - Esc or Close dismisses the window. Nothing is written, and the Save EXIF info checkbox is not changed by looking.
| Tag you will usually see | Tells you |
|---|---|
| Date/Time Original | When the shutter fired — not when the file was copied. |
| Make / Model | Camera or phone that produced the photo. |
| Lens Model | Which lens on a multi-camera phone. |
| Exposure Time, FNumber, ISO | The exposure triangle of that shot. |
| GPS Latitude / Longitude | Where it was taken, if location was enabled. |
| Orientation | The rotation flag baked into the file. |
No EXIF metadata found is a real answer, not an error: screenshots, images edited by other apps and files exported for the web often arrive with the metadata already removed.