How do you see the extra data in a picture taken with an iphone?

[Beamin]

I heard that when you take a picture on an iphone there is extra content in the .jpg that has the location or something, how do you access this? Also  is there a way to see the data google collects on you? I set up gmail in my iphone and playing around with gmail on  my PC one day and it had a map of all the places I went to when I was using the gps on google maps on the iphone. Kind of scary but novel at the same time seeing all the places you go.

[Ranayna]

What you are looking for rgearding the pictures is the EXIF Information. Not only iPhones do this, virtually every digital camera will populate EXIF information to some degree. There are a lot of viewer programs available that can show you that information.

Regarding Google: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

[Fred27]

Why not just Google these sort of random off-topic questions rather than asking on an electronics forum?

[Zero999]

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=How+do+you+see+the+extra+data+in+a+picture+taken+with+an+iphone%3F

[Simon]

I do kind of wonder at the craze about "being tracked". So google know where I was, so what? I very much appreciate the map and navigation app and will happily share my movement with them and if others do the same google can tell me in return the fastest route to get to my location. Yes they do sell this as aggregated information. I know someone with a BMW electric car and he tells me that the navigation data to the car and traffic information comes from google and is very good to the point that when the queue in front of him moves it shows up on the map instantly but he has a subscription to that with the car. I don't get such detail but what I do get is useful enough for free. It's not like they are telling commercial customers who is in the car in front just that there is a car(s) in front of them.

[pardo-bsso]

The problem here is, for example, when some person stalks you. Say you post a picture of your house, work, or something spicy from your studio and forget to remove the metadata. Now everyone can see where it was taken and harass on your doorstep.

As for how to see it, any decent image viewer or editor does that. Personally I'm fond of using exiv2 (https://www.exiv2.org)

[amyk]

I got a scamming seller to refund me very quickly when I extracted his location from the pictures he had posted and sent him an aerial photo with his house marked out.