How to fix Photo metadata issues in iOS 18?

Further conversations with the Apple Support Photos experts have now confirmed that this is a known problem that they are working on. There seem to be two issues, firstly, that Photos on the iPhone is showing the "original" time a photo was taken as an incorrect timem and the "adjusted" time as the correct time. The adjustment is inconsistent, ie the variation can be from a few seconds to hours. The second issue is that when importing photos into the Photos app on a Mac, the times are shown randomly. There is a workaround, which is instead of using the "import" feature in Photos, to use Airdrop. This seems to work and gives the correct time. The adjustment Ange73 mentioned when taking photos in a different time zone, is expected behaviour, if your phone is set to automatically adjust the time, because it will show the time taken as the time of the time zone you are in. Hopefully Apple will release an update for Mac and iPhone shortly which corrects the problems.

I am using the native iPhone camera app to take the photos, and photos to view them. It seems that there is an "adjust" feature in the info window in the photos app. There are two times displayed, an "original" and and "adjusted" time. The Original time seems to be randomly assigned, and the Adjusted time is the correct time when the photos was taken. The time shown in the info on the iphone is correct, the issue occurs when you import them into photos on the Mac. The photos appear in random order, with random times on them. It seems that the ability to sort a library by filename no longer exists, you can only sort them by time. Or at least I have not found out how to do it.

I think you may have the same issue. Do they appear in Photos on the Mac in the file number order? Mine don't. Also, when you say the metadata is correct, did you look at the "adjust" feature in the information window on the iphone, and do the two times match?

Ange 73, are your photos stored on the phone or in iCloud? I am not sure whether this makes any difference.

Apple has released an update to iOS 18 today (18.1) but it does not seem to have fixed the issue. The amount of time adjustment it shows for each image varies from one image to the next, some are out by a few seconds, some by much longer. It does not make any sense, particularly as the "adjusted" time is the correct time, and the "original" time appears to be random. It would be interesting to know whether storing photos in iCloud rather than on the phone has an effect on this. I don't use iCloud for storing photos, I store them on my phone.