camera roll timezone

I had this problem ever since I started to use iPhone 4 till now, iPhone 7.

When I visited a place of different time zone, all photo were stamped based on my phone home timing.

Example when I took a photo in Germany at 12pm, the photo will show the time taken was at 5am!

This is truly annoying!

If you happen to have a Mac this would be easy to adjust in the Mac's Photos app. Photos has an Image > Adjust Date & Time entry on Photos' menu. You could either adjust the time manually there or change the time zone of the photo.

Are you seeing the wrong date/time outside of the iPhone?

If you import the same photos to a PC, does the wrong date/time "stick"? Those settings should be written in to the picture file from what time zone was active when the picture was created and saved. It shouldn't be a variable.

OK... then there really is nothing to change or update.

The files are correct, it's just the iPhone's "view" of them is affected for some reason by it's current time zone settings.

No. My iPhone behaves the same way, so I believe your photos are acting as designed.

No, not at all.

As perplexing/annoying as this is, it is only visible when viewing the photos one the iPhone. Unless that causes more grief than I am aware of, I would soldier on.

If there were other quirky timezone thing s going on, maybe... but not for this.

jcsyan wrote:

Hi sberman,

So it is the same with you as well.

This is rather crazy, when I air drop to another iphone, the photos actually are showing the correct time/date as the photos were taken. But within our phone, it shows the current location time..This must be so sort of a bug?

It's either a bug or a feature, depending on your perspective. It is showing the time the photo was taken translated to your time zone. I'd never noticed that before.

Has there been further development on this issue? If it were just photos taken on my iPhone, at least the order would be consistent and it wouldn't be such a big deal, but I've got a mix of photos from other cameras as well - and as a result the order is really messed up. The photos imported from a digital camera are set to the "local" time (i.e. where I was at the time), whereas the ones from the iPhone are off-set to match my "home" time zone. I wind up with the day's photos from one camera showing in time order, and then if the day was long enough, the iPhone's photos start showing up, and it's like the day's starting again.

There's a similar issue, but slightly different, in the Photos app on my desktop. The sort-by-time order of photos is identical in both Photos for El Capitan and Photos for iOS10. However, on iOS, it'll show me the "corrected" time (i.e. a photo actually taken at 3:55pm will display as 6:55am of the next day). In El Capitan, it'll display as 3:55pm, but it'll sort as if it's 6:55am. And if I try, for example, to select all pictures from August 27, it'll miss a lot of photos taken that day because of the time zone offset that I guess Apple is automatically applying to pictures taken with iOS devices.

Is there a way to just make photos sort in the order of the date stamp applied to the photo, without Apple's overcorrection?

I recently got this problem as well.

This annoyed me a lot because this also affected old photos.

But just a part of old photos are shown in my current time zone.

Others are still in the time zone which the photos are taken.

So the order is totally incorrect !

But all of them are take by my iPhone, so I totally don't understand why they have different behavior.

I am not sure when this problem started.

But I am pretty sure the order of those old photos was correct several months ago.

Maybe this is caused by the iOS update ?

My wife and I traveled Japan last week, and both of us used iPhone 6s to take photos.

After back to my country, we sent some photos to each other by AirDrop.

On my iPhone 6s, the photos I took are shown in my current time zone, and the photos my wife sent to me are shown in Japan's time zone.

On my wife's iPhone 6s, all the photos (including what I sent to her) are shown in Japan's time zone, so the order is correct.

This is really a disaster.

In my country, the Apple says they never heard of this kind of issue, so I can't get any help.

Hope we can have some chance to push Apple to fix this issue here.

Is there any way to inform Apple about this ?

I believe this is a technical issue.

It happened to me as well. I’m using iphone 8 plus and took pictures when I was in Japan. When I came back home, the time stamp was changing to my home timezone