diff --git a/e2e/package.json b/e2e/package.json
index b92255d73..19ac3f175 100644
--- a/e2e/package.json
+++ b/e2e/package.json
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     "eslint-config-prettier": "^10.1.8",
     "eslint-plugin-prettier": "^5.1.3",
     "eslint-plugin-unicorn": "^75.0.0",
-    "exiftool-vendored": "^35.0.0",
+    "exiftool-vendored": "^39.0.0",
     "globals": "^17.0.0",
     "luxon": "^3.4.4",
     "pg": "^8.11.3",
diff --git a/server/package.json b/server/package.json
index a95918b60..a42b42d9f 100644
--- a/server/package.json
+++ b/server/package.json
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
     "cookie": "^2.0.0",
     "cookie-parser": "^1.4.7",
     "cron": "4.4.0",
-    "exiftool-vendored": "^35.20.0",
+    "exiftool-vendored": "^39.0.0",
     "express": "^5.1.0",
     "fast-glob": "^3.3.2",
     "fluent-ffmpeg": "^2.1.2",
diff --git a/server/src/services/metadata.service.ts b/server/src/services/metadata.service.ts
index e1c1bee16..a92a20616 100644
--- a/server/src/services/metadata.service.ts
+++ b/server/src/services/metadata.service.ts
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ export class MetadataService extends BaseService {
         //
         // this is especially important in the case of UTC+0 where exiftool-vendored does not return tz/zone fields
         // and as such the tags aren't overwritten when returning all tags.
-        for (const tag of ['zone', 'tz', 'tzSource'] as const) {
+        for (const tag of ['zone', 'tz', 'zoneSource'] as const) {
           delete mediaTags[tag];
         }
       }