How can I put photos with the correct date?
I have some photos out of order by date and would like to have them in the proper order by date.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
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I have some photos out of order by date and would like to have them in the proper order by date.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
You may need to adjust the date and time and the timezone for the photos, that are not sorted correctly.
See the paragraph "Change a photos Date & Time" in the user guide: Add titles, captions and more to photos using Photos on Mac – Apple Support (UK)
You can change the date and time associated with a photo — for example, if you travel to another time zone, and your camera assigns dates and times that are correct for your home but not the place you visited.
To separate the photos by camera model or photos with or without GPS tags, you can use smart albums.
You may need to adjust the date and time and the timezone for the photos, that are not sorted correctly.
See the paragraph "Change a photos Date & Time" in the user guide: Add titles, captions and more to photos using Photos on Mac – Apple Support (UK)
You can change the date and time associated with a photo — for example, if you travel to another time zone, and your camera assigns dates and times that are correct for your home but not the place you visited.
To separate the photos by camera model or photos with or without GPS tags, you can use smart albums.
You can adjust the date and time for a picture using the menu choice "Image>Adjust Date and Time" like this:
If you select several pictures that are, say, 10 minutes apart, then their new dates and times will still be 10 minutes apart-- it adjusts by the same difference to all the selected pictures.
In an album, you can move pictures around to be in any order you like by clicking and dragging them to into a new position.
I have lots of scanned images where the scanned date has little to do with the date the picture was taken. So, rather than changing date and time on them all, I put them in the order I want, and then I give them titles like, maybe "05 06 06 - 027 - Wallaby," and then I sort them by title. I use the app Photos Workbench ($30) to index lots of titles at once.
I've been guessing at what you may actually want to do. If you need some different solution, let us know, and give us examples.
How can I put photos with the correct date?