If you take photos with a non-networked, stand alone camera, the camera's clock may be off. I've had to modify the timestamps on camera photos to align them with photos taken at the same time with a phone.
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iOS 15: How to Adjust the Date and Time of Photos
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You’re confusing this with Photos app on the Mac. The article is about Photos app on iOS 15. This is a new feature for Photos on iOS.
There’s at least a few reasons:
1) Not all photos in a user’s library might have been shot using a camera with the correct date/time set
2) Photos scanned into a user’s library typically default to the date/time of the scan, not when the original was taken
3) Feature parity with the macOS Photos app, so users don’t have to revert to using a Mac to apply date/time changes
Finally! One basic feature coming to photos!
now we just need to be able to add locations to those that don’t have any, along with adding on tags and faces where they aren’t detected automatically. Slow, but still progress.
now we just need to be able to add locations to those that don’t have any, along with adding on tags and faces where they aren’t detected automatically. Slow, but still progress.
I scanned all of my family patito album photos, dating back to 1920s. I added these into the photos app. I was fortunate enough to have a Mac to be able to correct the dates to an approximate year when it was taken. Ive long been waiting for the iPad to actually replace my Mac, but it’s tiny features like these that are excluded from the mobile versions are whats holding it back for me.
Privacy reasons ?
Date and time adjust of photos.. wouldn't make sense doing it to your OWN photos. (unless your own ones you take are copyrighted by yourself ... (shame))
Unfortunately, this solution is viable only if you're using Apple's built in mail program. It would be nice, if you wanted to post something on social media, or share in texts, or use a different email app, to be able to easily modify the file size of an image.
I have a bunch of photos of other my favorite or second favorite dog ever. They were taken in the mid-1990s. Obviously since the iPhone didn't come out until 2007 I didn't take those pictures with an iPhone. They were done with a mix of film cameras and a really low res 2.1Megal pixel digital camera. I have mostly correct dates on the digital images, but they are not particularly good images. I had the negatives for the film shots scanned, but they didn't get dated (apparently that wasn't a service they provided, which is too bad given that all the negatives had a development date on the sleeves & since I normally shot a whole roll in a day or 3 and took them to be developed within a day or two the dates would absolutely been good enough to do good searches).
I have other photos from that era, some good nature shots, shots of friends, but really the dog ones are the ones that I most would like to have roughly correct dates on.
A lot of them I could put decent locations on as well (the home I owned that year, or a specific lake I hiked at a lot).
As it is, they are all June 2000.
What is a “hard creation date”. when I import a photo that I took in 1998 into ihoto it charges the creation date to the day I imported into iPhoto?
For batch editing, you can use the free app Photo Scanner that allows you to select multiple photos/videos in native Photos App and modify time and location at once.
I refer to the date the file was created, came into existence. that should be recorded somewhere in the code.