Cant barely extract any data with exiftool

[dontccc]

Hello there, the problem I need to solve to which I didn't find any info about is that when using exiftools to try and get metadata from a JPG or JPEG file, it only returns the tags shown below (and info related to them), but it doesn't show anything else like coordinates, model of camera, when it was taken, etc, etc. I think I might be missing something really important here.

[greybeard]

Where did you get the jpeg? Its probably been through some software that has stripped off all the metadata - or maybe downloaded off the internet. The best thing is to get a JPG straight out of the camera.

[dontccc]

Hey, I've thought the same thing you say, so I just took a photo with my smartphone, nonetheless the problem persists, so unfortunately that mustn't be the case, I'm currently running the software in a kali linux machine and in an ubuntu one, but it doesn't change anything either

[greybeard]

How did you move the image from your smartphone to the linux machines? The sample you posted is not an image straight out of a smart phone.

[dontccc]

Well, the image that I posted here is from my laptop but just to show which tags are shown by exiftool, now I took a picture of myself with my smartphone, then passed it to my laptop by downloading the file via WhatsApp web.

[greybeard]

I don't know how WhatsApp web works but that is likely your problem - its a bit difficult to give advice without knowing what type of smart phone you have and what type of laptop - but as an example I can use airdrop to send photos from my iPhone to my Mac laptop and the images are received complete with metadata.

[StarGeek]

downloading the file via WhatsApp web.

WhatsApp strips all data.  This is also the case with nearly every social media site or text messages.

You'll want to either directly connect your phone to the computer by USB cable or use a web service that doesn't edit files, such as Dropbox or Google Drive.

[dontccc]

So apparently that was the problem, I also tried analyzing some pics downloaded from the internet, but those likely got passed through some metadata remover and didn't show nothing as well, thank you both. Now I took a pic with my webcam and I do get new metadata. Thank you both!

Edit: I did implement the commands in FAQ #3 but they didn't were the solution.

Edit 2:
OS Version: Linux 6.5.0-kali3-amd64 x86_64
ExifTool Version: 12.67
Type of file: JPEG

[StarGeek]

I also tried analyzing some pics downloaded from the internet, but those likely got passed through some metadata remover and didn't show nothing as well

Wikipedia, Flickr, and DPReview are all good places to get images with that still contain metadata, as these sites won't strip anything away.  The metadata may have been removed before uploading, but the site will not remove it.

[dontccc]

Tried downloading images from Wikipedia and it worked! Got some new metadata tags printed, so everything works properly, thank you.