diff --git a/src/admin/ExifSyncButton.tsx b/src/admin/ExifSyncButton.tsx
index b91367a9..517bcbe5 100644
--- a/src/admin/ExifSyncButton.tsx
+++ b/src/admin/ExifSyncButton.tsx
@@ -1,37 +1,39 @@
-import FormWithConfirm from '@/components/FormWithConfirm';
+'use client';
+
+import LoaderButton from '@/components/primitives/LoaderButton';
 import SubmitButtonWithStatus from '@/components/SubmitButtonWithStatus';
+import { getExifDataAction } from '@/photo/actions';
+import { PhotoFormData } from '@/photo/form';
 import IconGrSync from '@/site/IconGrSync';
 import { clsx } from 'clsx/lite';
-import { ComponentProps } from 'react';
+import { ComponentProps, useState } from 'react';
 
 export default function ExifSyncButton({
-  action,
-  label,
-  onFormSubmit,
   photoUrl,
-  className,
+  onSync,
 }: {
-  action: (formData: FormData) => void
-  label?: string
-  photoUrl?: string
+  photoUrl: string
+  onSync?: (data: Partial<PhotoFormData>) => void
 } & ComponentProps<typeof SubmitButtonWithStatus>) {
+  const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(false);
+
   return (
-    <FormWithConfirm
-      action={action}
-      className={className}
+    <LoaderButton
+      title="Update photo from original file"
+      isLoading={isLoading}
+      onClick={() => {
+        setIsLoading(true);
+        getExifDataAction(photoUrl)
+          .then(onSync)
+          .finally(() => setIsLoading(false));
+      }}
+      icon={<IconGrSync
+        className={clsx(
+          'translate-y-[0.5px] translate-x-[0.5px]',
+          'sm:translate-x-[-0.5px]',
+        )} />}
     >
-      <input name="photoUrl" value={photoUrl} hidden readOnly />
-      <SubmitButtonWithStatus
-        title="Update photo from original file"
-        icon={<IconGrSync
-          className={clsx(
-            'translate-y-[0.5px] translate-x-[0.5px]',
-            label && 'sm:translate-x-[-0.5px]',
-          )} />}
-        onFormSubmit={onFormSubmit}
-      >
-        {label}
-      </SubmitButtonWithStatus>
-    </FormWithConfirm>
+      EXIF
+    </LoaderButton>
   );
 }
diff --git a/src/photo/PhotoEditPageClient.tsx b/src/photo/PhotoEditPageClient.tsx
index 8924bd8c..33b7bcec 100644
--- a/src/photo/PhotoEditPageClient.tsx
+++ b/src/photo/PhotoEditPageClient.tsx
@@ -3,18 +3,13 @@
 import AdminChildPage from '@/components/AdminChildPage';
 import { Photo } from '.';
 import { PATH_ADMIN_PHOTOS } from '@/site/paths';
-import {
-  PhotoFormData,
-  convertPhotoToFormData,
-} from './form';
+import { PhotoFormData, convertPhotoToFormData } from './form';
 import PhotoForm from './form/PhotoForm';
-import { useFormState } from 'react-dom';
-import { areSimpleObjectsEqual } from '@/utility/object';
-import { getExifDataAction } from './actions';
 import { Tags } from '@/tag';
 import AiButton from './ai/AiButton';
 import usePhotoFormParent from './form/usePhotoFormParent';
 import ExifSyncButton from '@/admin/ExifSyncButton';
+import { useState } from 'react';
 
 export default function PhotoEditPageClient({
   photo,
@@ -29,18 +24,6 @@ export default function PhotoEditPageClient({
   imageThumbnailBase64: string
   blurData: string
 }) {
-  const seedExifData = { url: photo.url };
-
-  const [updatedExifData, action] = useFormState<Partial<PhotoFormData>>(
-    getExifDataAction,
-    seedExifData,
-  );
-
-  const hasExifDataBeenFound = !areSimpleObjectsEqual(
-    updatedExifData,
-    seedExifData,
-  );
-
   const photoForm = convertPhotoToFormData(photo);
 
   const {
@@ -56,6 +39,9 @@ export default function PhotoEditPageClient({
     imageThumbnailBase64,
   });
 
+  const [updatedExifData, setUpdatedExifData] =
+    useState<Partial<PhotoFormData>>();
+
   return (
     <AdminChildPage
       backPath={PATH_ADMIN_PHOTOS}
@@ -69,9 +55,8 @@ export default function PhotoEditPageClient({
           {hasAiTextGeneration &&
             <AiButton {...{ aiContent, shouldConfirm: hasTextContent }} />}
           <ExifSyncButton
-            action={action}
-            label="EXIF"
             photoUrl={photo.url}
+            onSync={setUpdatedExifData}
           />
         </div>}
       isLoading={pending}
@@ -79,9 +64,7 @@ export default function PhotoEditPageClient({
       <PhotoForm
         type="edit"
         initialPhotoForm={photoForm}
-        updatedExifData={hasExifDataBeenFound
-          ? updatedExifData
-          : undefined}
+        updatedExifData={updatedExifData}
         updatedBlurData={blurData}
         uniqueTags={uniqueTags}
         aiContent={hasAiTextGeneration ? aiContent : undefined}
diff --git a/src/photo/actions.ts b/src/photo/actions.ts
index 7f844f77..17557dc8 100644
--- a/src/photo/actions.ts
+++ b/src/photo/actions.ts
@@ -280,17 +280,15 @@ export const deleteBlobPhotoAction = async (formData: FormData) =>
 // Accessed from admin photo edit page
 // will not update blur data
 export const getExifDataAction = async (
-  photoFormPrevious: Partial<PhotoFormData>,
+  url: string,
 ): Promise<Partial<PhotoFormData>> =>
   runAuthenticatedAdminServerAction(async () => {
-    const { url } = photoFormPrevious;
-    if (url) {
-      const { photoFormExif } = await extractImageDataFromBlobPath(url);
-      if (photoFormExif) {
-        return photoFormExif;
-      }
+    const { photoFormExif } = await extractImageDataFromBlobPath(url);
+    if (photoFormExif) {
+      return photoFormExif;
+    } else {
+      return {};
     }
-    return {};
   });
 
 // Accessed from admin photo table, will: