Timeline for Photos on Mac uploaded to iCloud with wrong date/time
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| Sep 21 at 18:06 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
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| Apr 24 at 15:13 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | @Ezekiel think we solved the problem?! | |
| Apr 24 at 15:00 | comment | added | Ezekiel | Can you export the file and open it in Preview, use Tools > Show Inspector and go to the (i) tab > Exif and see what the Date/Time shown on this tab is? This will determine whether the error is before or after you export the photo. | |
| Apr 24 at 13:49 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | I've listed three alternatives in the answer, can you please verify whether the first one works (can't test this myself)? | |
| Apr 24 at 13:46 | answer | added | nohillside♦ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 24 at 13:25 | comment | added | Daniel Ward | I don't think I can sync with Photos directly because my OS is too old (this suggests I need macOS 13 but I'm still on macOS 10 as per the user-guide). Things do improve yes when I drag the picture from Finder so I guess I could do it this way but it's still frustrating as I don't want to export gigabytes of photos to Finder. | |
| Apr 24 at 12:32 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Well, if I would have to guess, that's where the change happens. Is there a specific reason you don't sync within Photos directly? If this is not possible, do things improve if you drag the picture from Finder into Safari? | |
| Apr 24 at 12:30 | comment | added | Daniel Ward | I drag directly from Photos. | |
| Apr 24 at 12:20 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | If you upload via drag&drop, how do you get the photo out of Photos in the first place? | |
| Apr 24 at 11:08 | comment | added | Daniel Ward | Exporting the file to Desktop, changing name, reading back into Photos, and then uploading to iCloud results in the same issue. The photo on iPhone and iCloud have today's date, but more importantly I think, the following: 1024 × 768·154.8 KB. Does that mean there's an issue with uploading the images to iCloud? | |
| Apr 24 at 11:03 | comment | added | Daniel Ward | I will have a go. I don't know if this is relevant, but I'm not syncing to iCloud direct from the Photos app, I've been dragging files into the iCloud web app from the Photos library to upload them | |
| Apr 24 at 10:46 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | They show the same scenery, but they are not the same photo/JPG file. Even with "Optimize Storage" enabled, the metadata would show the same information on all devices. So whatever gets synced into iCloud is not the same as the original on the Mac. What happens if you export the picture on the Mac, give it a unique name, import it into Photos again and let it sync? | |
| Apr 24 at 10:03 | comment | added | Daniel Ward | The iCloud web app also shows the Sep 21 date (same as on iPhone). I’m afraid I’m not sure what you mean by the album part though, however this has happened to a large number of photos - not just this one | |
| Apr 24 at 9:59 | comment | added | bmike♦ | For a tiebreaker, what does the iCloud web app for photos show for the date on this photo? Making an album with three different images should let you know if all syncs are using the same offset unrelated to time zone settings or it’s specific to each image. | |
| Apr 24 at 9:54 | comment | added | Daniel Ward | They’re definitely the same photo, I suspect the size difference is to save space on the iPhone. On iCloud.com the date is Sep 21 as on the iPhone. And I don’t know what the significance of the Sep 21 date is. It could be when the file was imported, but I cannot say for certain (it also seems unlikely I would have imported the file 9 months later) | |
| Apr 24 at 9:33 | history | edited | nohillside♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 24 at 9:28 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Are you sure you look at the same photo here? The Mac one is way bigger than the iPhone one, and properly named. Which date do you see if you look at the picture on iCloud.com? Do both dates have meaning or is one of them totally random? | |
| Apr 24 at 8:41 | history | asked | Daniel Ward | CC BY-SA 4.0 |