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Image showing what metadata survives when you send via different means
Blog / Digital Forensics · 24 June 2026

Can you get metadata from a photo someone sent you?

Whether you can read metadata from a received photo depends on the channel, not the tool. Email and AirDrop pass the file unchanged. Messaging apps re-encode — EXIF is gone, but a compression signature takes its place.

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