date stamps appearing incorrectly on ios

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date stamps appearing incorrectly on ios

Hi there

Ive been going through my newly converted library organising things and adding a few more photos. Ive recently added a bunch of old black and white scanned photos which I gave a date of 1800 just so they'd appear at the top of my list (and perhaps Id eventually find the correct dates). it all looks correct when viewed in photos on my mac, however when view on iOS the photos don't have their amended dates 😟. Am i doing something wrong or is this a bug?

many thanks for any help!

Nick

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Apr 26, 2015 8:21 AM

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Nickholl Author

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Apr 29, 2015 12:28 AM in response to Nickholl

Anybidy having any similar issues? :-/

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Nickholl Author

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Apr 29, 2015 1:00 AM in response to Nickholl

Sorry Ive just realised I've been being dumb. Photo stream is date added and not created! Guess things will be different if and when I update to iCloud photo library

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Apr 30, 2015 2:14 PM in response to Nickholl

I take it back - Im not sure I've been being totally dumb after all. I just looked at the photos view on my iPad, and the dates haven't carried across to there. (and that view if I'm correct is supposed to be in chronological order?)

is anybody having similar issues or am I the only one?!

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LarryHN

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Apr 30, 2015 2:19 PM in response to Nickholl

If yu are using PhotoStream then the photo is as loaded to PS and edits are not applied - you would have to read to PS after editing

If you use iCloud Photo Library all devices will see the edits

LN

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Nickholl Author

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Apr 30, 2015 2:22 PM in response to LarryHN

I edited the dates on my mac, and then synced the photos to my iPad via iTunes, which means they're in the photos section (rather than simply in PS)

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Nickholl Author

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Apr 30, 2015 4:16 PM in response to Nickholl

I've just realised - there's nothing at all showing up before 2000 on any of my iOS devices! There's not some kind of Y2K bug going on here is there?! (I'm half joking/half serious)

Perhaps somebody could confirm that photos before the year 2000 are appearing in there iOS devices just to put that idea to rest? 🙂

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Nickholl Author

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May 1, 2015 2:00 AM in response to Nickholl

did another resync (from scratch) there are a few photos that are appearing from 1999. However, no luck with ANY of the photos that I redated within Photos 😟. I even did another date change on a photo last night, and that hasn't synced across either

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May 1, 2015 3:24 PM in response to Nickholl

has anybody else out there successfully redated photos and have them sync across to iOS in the new photos app? Im interested to know if its just me with this problem or if its a bug

thanks

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Nickholl Author

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May 2, 2015 3:55 PM in response to Nickholl

can anybody confirm this?! 🙂

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Nickholl Author

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May 3, 2015 12:48 AM in response to Nickholl

hello everyone (well just me by the looks of it 🙂 )

just reporting back on a new find. I thought Id export one of the photos id adjusted the time on just to see what it said in its meta (don't know why i didn't try this before!) and guess what.... it still has the original date stamp in its meta!

So it doesn't seem as though its a syncing issue after all but more that Photos isn't correctly changing the photos meta data.

Just to confirm, within the Photos app, the photo is displaying as being taken in 1920, when I export that photo and look at its meta, it still says it was created in 2010.

hopefully apple has read my feedback report!

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May 3, 2015 2:50 AM in response to Nickholl

Nick,

I just tried to replicate what you experienced, but for me everything worked ok. Just 2 possible causes for your problem that I can think off:

- if you modified the date in the old iPhoto application, did you leave the box called "overwrite original date" unchecked?

- when you exported from photos, did you select "unmodified original"?

Other than that I can only think off an installation problem when photos was installed - happened to me too.

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May 3, 2015 2:59 AM in response to HelgeKreutz

Hi - thanks for the reply!

I migrated my whole library to Photos from iPhoto. Then i added a bunch of new photos which i time adjusted in the Photos app.

If i export the photo normally (option1) from Photos, it gives me the modified date. If i export as an "unmodified original" then it gives me the date before I changed the date (2010).

Why this modified date isn't transferring to my other devices I don't know 😟. Should i try reinstalling the app?

thanks again!

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May 3, 2015 3:22 AM in response to Nickholl

I suspect that reinstalling the app could be a solution since you upgraded already a week ago - this is the hint I received in the applestore yesterday when I discussed my own problem with photos (in my case the spellchecker became uncontrollable and my iphoto "albums and books" disappeared).

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Nickholl Author

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May 3, 2015 3:25 AM in response to HelgeKreutz

MMm I guess it's worth a try.. What's the best way to do that do you know? Just delete from the applications folder and redownload?

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May 3, 2015 11:57 AM in response to HelgeKreutz

am i actually able to reinstall the app on its own? I cant see it as a standalone anywhere - only as part of the whole Yosemite system, and I don't particularly want to reinstall my whole system for this :-/

thanks

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