Add a Exif/Metadata editor.

[ShapeShifter499]

I like this Gallery app, works pretty good. I would like to know though if there could be an Exif/Metadata editor. It would be nice to have to be able edit out sensitive location and camera data before posting some photos online.

[Michele64]

I would use this to add comments and to edit the location / gps info

[LivInTheLookingGlass]

I would like this

[kr428]

+1 for that. So far really miss adding exif keywords and exif/iptc "star" rating for pictures in order to sort through larger collections.

[jmichael2497]

i'm all for keeping Simple Gallery "simple".

for anyone looking to just remove EXIF data before sharing, try "Scrambled EXIF".

for anyone looking to do more extended EXIF editing, rating, and location mapping, try "A Photo Map".

both are found by searching the open source listings at https://search.f-droid.org/?q=exif

[kr428]

i'm all for keeping Simple Gallery "simple".

Agree with most of your suggestions - except for the "star" / favorite ratings. AFAICT SimpleGallery has the option to mark pictures as favorites so it only would make sense to allow for writing these information to the images files as well. :)

[Ivancaminal72]

As @kr428 said, there should be a metadata tag that saves the "star"/favorite information to the image file, in order to enable the recovery of that information from a computer (after a backup from the smartphone).

[jakommo]

@kr428 @Ivancaminal72 I've created a dedicated issue for storing the favourite/star rating in file https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Gallery/issues/1796 because I think it's only one part of what's requested here, but it might be much more simple to implement than an entire Exif/Metadata editor

[seniorm0ment]

Would like to see this as well, would be nice to just have a clear all metadata button too.

[szpak]

For people reaching our that issue, in the meantime (as a "workaround"), I started using exif-eraser. It removes exif metadata losslesly, it is FOSS, it doesn't require superfluous permissions and have a "share by default" option for people willing to just remove metadata before sending photos with some messanger.

[seniorm0ment]

yeah there are many apps it's just nice to have it built right in

[guaasamo]

there are many EXIF editor apps and there are many gallery apps, but there is no good app that does both

I use an app that can set EXIF descriptions for multiple selected photos

please consider adding this feature to the pro version of gallery

thanks

[Donkey-Doug]

there are many EXIF editor apps and there are many gallery apps, but there is no good app that does both

Have a look at Aves gallery: https://github.com/deckerst/aves

[tibbi]

starting with 6.23.0 it will be possible to remove EXIF values from the properties dialog

[szpak]

starting with 6.23.0 it will be possible to remove EXIF values from the properties dialog

Great. Just please to remember to keep the orientation tag from Exif in the exported file ;).

[tibbi]

ye, orientation is the only one that wont be removed. There are likely many more tags that we could be removing, but that will improve over time.

[tibbi]

Actually there is a change, the EXIF remover wont be visible in the gallery on Android 11+ due to Googles strictened permissions, so this is joining the list of features that wont be available on those devices anymore. It will be there on lower OS versions or the file manager.

[tibbi]

if you find a gallery that can update EXIF in any way on Android 11+ and it was updated since november 2021, let me know.

[szpak]

Actually there is a change, the EXIF remover wont be visible in the gallery on Android 11+ due to Googles strictened permissions

That's a pity :-/.

if you find a gallery that can update EXIF in any way on Android 11+ and it was updated since november 2021, let me know.

Does it have to be a gallery? exif-eraser seems to work on my Android 12 and it was updated in November 2021: https://github.com/Tommy-Geenexus/exif-eraser/releases/tag/v5.0.0

[tibbi]

right, they are recreating the whole file, we might add it like that too. I wanted to avoid it though, it could cause additional issues and the UX is pretty bad.

[szpak]

Not always people would like to permanently remove the exif metadata from their photos. Personally, I do it before sending them via some app (e.g. social networks), so (under a hood) I make a copy of it (similarly to the photo edits). In fact, I would like to just remove exif and send that image to some other app and discard afterward. However, I remember that an author of exif-eraser told me, it is problematic (some temporary storage would need to be freed up periodically), so "exporting" them in a dedicated "no-exif" folder (with an option to automatically share with some other app) is ok for me (I can purge the folder occasionally).

[tibbi]

this change I wrote above is a permanent change, some function like "Remove EXIF and Share" is a whole different thing. It could be a pretty useful feature together with "Resize and Share"

[jmichael2497]

In fact, I would like to just remove exif and send that image to some other app and discard afterward. However, I remember that an author of exif-eraser told me, it is problematic (some temporary storage would need to be freed up periodically), so "exporting" them in a dedicated "no-exif" folder (with an option to automatically share with some other app) is ok for me (I can purge the folder occasionally).

you might be interested in https://f-droid.org/packages/de.kaffeemitkoffein.imagepipe which, yes makes a folder that does make its own folder, but easy enough to select all and delete with Gallery as needed.

meanwhile, i'm staying with 6.22.3 since i don't want to lose hidden folder view and other stuff that Google is making frustratingly difficult for end users and developers to do.