

So, there‘s no way to get EXIF metadata directly from Instagram, but there are a few tricks and workarounds you can try. If they didn‘t remove it, you can only imagine what stalkers could use it for. There are also privacy concerns: photos taken on phones can contain the exact location they were taken at. Instagram strips it to save up on bandwidth (metadata makes files bigger). Photos downloaded directly from Instagram won‘t work with PixelPeeper, because they don‘t contain EXIF data.

PixelPeeper can reverse-engineer Lightroom edits from photos, but it needs JPGs with metadata (EXIF for camera settings and XMP for Lightroom edits). How to Get Metadata for Instagram Photos (EXIF & XMP)?
