How to View and Remove Photo Metadata on iPhone and Android
Your phone records where and when each photo was taken, plus the device model. Both iOS and Android let you view this information and remove the location before sharing.
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Your phone records where and when each photo was taken, plus the device model. Both iOS and Android let you view this information and remove the location before sharing.
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is the hidden information a camera or phone writes into every photo: camera settings, date and time, device model and often the GPS location.
Facebook, Instagram and Threads read C2PA and IPTC metadata to decide whether to show an “AI info” label. Real photos edited with AI-powered tools (Generative Fill, object removal) often carry these declarations and get labeled by mistake.
Stable Diffusion WebUI (A1111, Forge) stores the prompt, negative prompt, seed, sampler and model in a tEXt chunk named “parameters”. ComfyUI embeds the full “prompt” and “workflow” graphs as JSON — enough to recreate your exact pipeline.
Images from Midjourney, DALL·E or Firefly may contain the prompt, job ID, account name and an AI source declaration in XMP, EXIF or PNG text. For many creators and prompt engineers, that is a recipe worth keeping private.
C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) is a standard that attaches a digitally signed provenance record to an image: which tool created it, what was edited and whether AI was used. The manifest lives in a JUMBF container (JPEG APP11, PNG caBX, HEIC/AVIF uuid box).