Is there anyway to stop apple from putting time and dates on my pictures? I like the convenience of using my phones camera but absolutely hate that feature. Can this be removed from my photo library or do I need to go back to a traditional camera and ditch apple ?
All digital cameras add the time and date to the metadata in the file.
Why is this a problem? You don't have to look at it if you don't want to. But it is very useful as an organisational tool (without the time/date, your photos app (whatever you use) can't show you the photos in date order for example.
I don't think it is possible to remove time/date in the photos app, but you can change it to something obviously false - eg 1/1/1900
Do you mean literally *on* the pictures? Can you show us a screenshot? AFAIK, only a few older point-and-shoots have that capability.
There are a couple of apps at the App Store that will do that: EXIF Purge and Metapho.
Remove all metadata (by default this resets the file dates to current time, fine-tune if you want to save some metadata like GPS...):
exiftool -overwrite_original -all= .
Remove also the few remaining Adobe tags:
exiftool -overwrite_original -all= -Adobe= .
Check what metadata remains:
exiftool -a -G1 -s .
Or even more:
exiftool -a -G1 -s -api RequestAll=2 .
[APP14:Adobe] is a special segment that actually can be removed, but doing so may alter the appearance of the image. From the tag documentation: The APP14 "Adobe" segment stores image encoding information for DCT filters. This segment may be copied or deleted as a block using the Extra "Adobe" tag, but note that it is not deleted by default when deleting all metadata because it may affect the appearance of the image.
I dislike the date and time feature. I don't want them organized in that fashion. It's also not my thing to have their locations pin pointed. That is why I am reverting to older cameras that are not digital.
OK, but this is not an "Apple thing". Also don't get an APS camera since they had an early version of EXIF.
Ironically, when you scan them, the date and time you scanned them will probably be in the exif data.
remove time stamps on photos