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In the summer of 2025, the Department of Justice released what it described as raw surveillance footage from outside Jeffrey…

iPhone photo metadata explained in plain English: EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, xAttr, and the new AI-generation signals. See it all…

This article will teach you how to bulk edit the metadata of multiple photos and videos using templates on an…

Learn how to quickly and easily extract an audio track from any video on iOS using the Photo Investigator free…

Now that geotags are so common, it can be upsetting to see that some pictures don’t have them when they…

Do you want to see where a photo that was sent to you in Messages was taken? We’ll use the Photo…

A common cause of confusion when checking a photo’s metadata, is that there is none to be found! Usually when…

Learn how to view an obscure kind of metadata, xattr Extended File Attributes, in your iPhone photos and videos.

It’s amazing to see so many people becoming enthusiastic about the outdoors. However they also need to be enthusiastic about…

How are Portrait Mode Photos Made? When taking a Portrait photo, the iPhone creates a “depth map” of the scene.…