iOS 15: How to Adjust the Date and Time of Photos

[lexvo]

But nothing that survives a knowledgable person with a hex editor?

I read some camera brands have a checksum in their RAW file so any modification is noticed.

 

[anthogag]

This is useful if I get picture files from cameras that didn't set time and date information properly.

 

[Fatboy71]

Why would this be useful? Serious question!

I was just thinking the same thing.
I'm struggling to think how this feature would be useful 🤔 but I suppose a niche user group might find it useful.

 

[urbanslaughter1997]

I just wish there were an easy way to make the file size of my photos smaller so that I could insert them more easily in emails, etc.

 

[cloudphrenia]

surely we can rename photos now?

 

[circatee]

I just wish there were an easy way to make the file size of my photos smaller so that I could insert them more easily in emails, etc.

I think the default way would be to change the ‘quality’ of your initial photos. Might not be the best solution. But…

 

[ahostmadsen]

I was just thinking the same thing.
I'm struggling to think how this feature would be useful 🤔 but I suppose a niche user group might find it useful.

I guess people who use actual cameras rather than iPhones to take photos are niche 🤷‍♂️

 

[ahostmadsen]

Anyway, it's still not clear to me if you can also change the location as you can on Mac?

 

[frozen220]

I’m not sure either. You’d think someone in computer forensics would be able to see the date change, just a guess on my part. Like you said unless someone is going to try to get out of a crime by doing this, or perhaps to say there’s no way I was cheating on you. Look at the time stamp. That I could see. Otherwise why would anyone change that. It’s a memory of a specific date/time.

If it’s a copy of the original photo such as something that was recompressed or screenshotted and the exif data from original photo didn’t go along with it, then I can definitely see why someone would want to assign a date to a photo, so it shows up with other photos taken that same day. What I am wondering though, is doing this in iOS actually changing the “taken on” exif metadata or does that remain and a new iOS-specific metadata line added ?

 

[xDENTALPLANx]

So if this is true then it makes photographic or video evidence inadmissible in a court of law. All any attorney has to do is claim the meta data of a picture was modified.

You’ve been able to alter the date / time / location of photos on the Mac Photos app (and just about every photo editor) for years.

 

[Pemberton_Malcolm]

I’m not sure either. You’d think someone in computer forensics would be able to see the date change, just a guess on my part. Like you said unless someone is going to try to get out of a crime by doing this, or perhaps to say there’s no way I was cheating on you. Look at the time stamp. That I could see. Otherwise why would anyone change that. It’s a memory of a specific date/time.

Finally!!

so many of my photos have the wrong date and time.

Especially if I export them from another Mac. A photo from 2009 exported in 2020, will be given a date stamp of 2020. Now, I have a way to adjust the date back to 2009.

Took so long, but finally the fix is here.

 

[Pemberton_Malcolm]

You could also receive photos, on your iPhone/iPad, from someone who didn’t have the right info set when they took the pictures, and you want to adjust it so that it appears in the proper timeframe and location in your photos.

Yes.

So many people are clueless about this. Maybe it explains why the feature took so long to arrive. Even now, with the feature, so many people still stumbling around with a “huh?” look on their faces.

 

[Pemberton_Malcolm]

Exactly. One of the few things I cannot do on my iPad is set location/change date. Should I keep a Mac just to do that?

LOL!!

Forgive them, they are ignorant. What’s worse? They’re oblivious regarding their ignorance.

They don’t know what they don’t know.

 

[Saitama45]

Why would this be useful? Serious question! Change evidence? 😂

I think it’s incredibly useful. I don’t own a computer, just an iPad and iPhone. I took thousands of pics from back when and uploaded them all to Flickr but lost the email access to it so I had to direct download them which shows the download date rather than capture date cause exif wasn’t accessible. Now I can have all my Africa pictures show up in the right timeframe.
Just one example.

Why would this be useful? Serious question! Change evidence? 😂

 

[sos47]

this is great when scanning old family pics. this is a step forward to replace a pc with an ipad or iphone. thank you

 

[matrix07]

I was just thinking the same thing.
I'm struggling to think how this feature would be useful 🤔 but I suppose a niche user group might find it useful.

It's useful when you add old photos (when you're a kid maybe) to Photo and now you can specify what date and time those ones taken, or even geo-tagged them correctly.

 

[dk001]

Why would this be useful? Serious question! Change evidence? 😂

I use this on my Android and Windows a lot primarily with older photos or scans of old photos.
Very very useful and happy to finally see this come to iOS.

 

[BuddyTronic]

Why would this be useful? Serious question! Change evidence? 😂

I have old digital photos without correct dates. Also old scanned negatives without correct or even approximately correct dates. For some of these photos even having a year would be helpful.

 

[BuddyTronic]

I just wish there were an easy way to make the file size of my photos smaller so that I could insert them more easily in emails, etc.

Mail asks what size you’d like to send when you attach a bunch of photos - is that good enough for what you were needing?

 

[Whathappened]

Memories, absolutely useless. what is the point?

No, it’s great.

 

[svish]

A nice addition. Till now I had to use the Photos app on Mac to change the date. For the future, Apple should add the ability to change location on iOS as well.

 

[matrix07]

Memories, absolutely useless. what is the point?

For family photo it's great. It has made a video of my mom out of a photo I took of her 😳 and it floored me since it's just perfect. (It took a part from Live Photo. I didn't know it could do that.)

 

[nnoble]

One more tool to deceive and be deceived. Having said that, I have photographs taken decades ago with a camera that had never had date and time set correctly and they are all sat in Photos as 1970.

 

[SidricTheViking]

I just wish there were an easy way to make the file size of my photos smaller so that I could insert them more easily in emails, etc.

There is. Select the photo, then select the Share button, then enter the email address to the recipient. When you tap the send arrow (top right on iPhone) it’ll offer 4 sizes: Small, Medium, Large, Actual Size. Simply choose whichever suits your needs.

 

[4487549]

This is not new. I have used this feature in Photos for many years. I scan old family photos from the 50's through the 00's, fix them up, and of course the date on the picture is then the current scan date rather than the year and day it was actually shot on film. So, in Photos, I have always been able to change the date and make a correct geotag in Photos app.

Also worth noting that it's not changing the EXIF data. It's a non-destructive way of organizing photos within the Photos app "on top of" the EXIF data (without changing anything about the original photo itself).