Download Photos From Icloud Keep Date
Shauncey Cedillo
I've tested all different ways to download but it's very patchy that some of the photos have that information but some don't, and it should be consistent for all the photos to have their original dates and time.
Another case is when I download the photos from the Photo app on my laptop. It will download and have the original dates and times. But when I copy and pasted them from my Download folder to my external hard drive, the dates and times will changed to today's dates and times automatically and I don't know why it doesn't that, I would prefer it not change the original dates and times when I want to store them in my external hard drive.
You can also see the two different dates in finder, as shown in the screenshot with finder in column view. This is from an image I exported from photos in july 2019 - so the file has been created and last modified then, but the content creation date is still showing 2011...
A step by step guide should resolve my ask, because right now even though I know what the file type is, I still don't see a solution for how to keep the original date when I download my photos from the Photo App to my external hard drive.
There is simply no way to preserve the file creation date reliably when moving files between devices. The Finder will preserve the file creation date, if you move a file between folders on the same volume, but not, when a new copy of the file is created, when downloading from iCloud or copying to a different device. iCloud Photos may be changing the creation date already when the file is uploaded and merged into the existing iCloud Photos Library, as iCloud Photos will check for duplicates and keep only one version of the file, if a duplicate already exists in iCloud.
When I download photos from iCloud to "photo" app on Mac computer, why are the date of the photo becomes the day of transferred/downloaded, not the day of photo taken, it is really annoying. Is there way to fix this?
The original files downloaded from iCloud Photos Library will not always keep the original file creation date, not even when syncing using the Photos.app. But iCloud Photos will preserve the IPTC capture date or exif capture date, when the photo has been taken (depending on the image format). In the Finder I am seeing for nearly all my photos in the Photos Library package the file creation date of September 14, 2020 or newer - that is the date, when I synced a new copy of the Library from iCloud to my Mac after reinstalling the system. The Finder will show the date of the download from iCloud as the file creation date, when you sync your Photos Library with iCloud. When you open the originals from the library package in Preview and look at them with the Inspector, you can see the capture date.
I am helping a friend move his photos and videos from one Apple ID to another.I have downloaded all items to my PC using iCloud for PC. I then proceeded to re-upload all the photos to the new Apple ID.2'000 of the videos are MOV, which I cannot upload to iCloud. I seem to need to convert them to mp4 in order to upload them.
This worked fine and I managed to upload the (now) mp4's to iCloud. Unfortunately all the mp4's now carry yesterday's date as creation date. In iCloud (and on the iPad) all the videos are now displayed with a creation date of 12.6.2020 and it is impossible to find a particular video. Also the context to the photos is lost.
-map_metadata 0 transfers the global metadata from the MOV to the mp4 file. The mp4s now have correct creation dates and iCloud sorts them under the correct date (at least the first 50 that I uploaded)
I want to specify a directory and have the software find all the photos in the directory and its sub-directories, and if they contain EXIF date/time, it sets their filesystem timestamp to match the EXIF.
When iPhone photography really started going, I'd connect by USB, import them to my Dropbox which would rename them with a date-time stamp ??, put them into a year/month folder with a bit of curation to sort out screenshots and shopping photos, and Google Photos watched that archive folder to upload them. This worked well until iCloud seized the photos from my iPhone and getting them proved to require its own workflow.
That's how I discovered Exif data: some photos (only some) weren't flat files (see image below) and showed their metadata in the Finder. Most only have the Created-Modified date visible. What I downloaded from Flickr (and some from Google) saved as if they were created and modified on the day I downloaded them. Not good. Some had visible EXIF data, but many/most looked flat. I had been deleting duplicates bc they had the wrong timestamp (if they were same size or smaller, that is). Finding out about Exif data and time stamp led me here.
Interestingly enough, simply copying or moving the JPG or HEIC file to a different directory under Windows 10 seems to cause Windows to automatically update the file date/time from the EXIF information, no tool required. Can anyone else confirm this ?
Apple says that any photos uploaded to My Photo Stream before that date will remain in iCloud for 30 days from the date of upload and will be available to any of your devices where My Photo Stream is currently enabled. By July 26, 2023, there will be no photos remaining in iCloud, and the service will be shut down, it states.
You can also select multiple photos in iCloud by selecting moments. Click on the small plus sign in the top right corner of one of the moments. Voila! All the pictures in your moment are selected. You can download photos from iCloud to PC.
There is no rocket science to this as the location and date are saved with the picture when you transfer it. You do not have to do anything special besides transferring/copying images from iPhone to Windows.
This is exactly what I do and my jpeg photos from my iphone are organized by date which how I want them. BUT my iphone videos do not organize by date. Any when I hover over a video, it does not show me date taken. I need to have my life events organized in chronological order. Do you know why this keeps happening? Thanks!
iCloud was announced on May 31, 2011, in a press release.[11] On June 6, 2011, during the WWDC 2011 keynote, Steve Jobs announced that iCloud would replace MobileMe, which had been widely seen as a "failure",[12] a fact which Steve Jobs acknowledged during the announcement.[13] iCloud was released on October 12, 2011, and MobileMe was discontinued on June 30, 2012. Previous MobileMe users could keep their @mac.com and @me.com email addresses as aliases to their new @icloud.com address. Earlier versions included Back to My Mac, which was previously part of MobileMe.[14] This service allowed users to create point-to-point connections between computers. It was discontinued on July 1, 2019.
iTunes Match debuted on November 14, 2011. It was initially available to US users only.[34] For an annual fee, customers can scan and match tracks in their iTunes music library, including tracks copied from CDs or other sources, with tracks in the iTunes Store, so customers do not have to repurchase said tracks. Customers may download up to 100,000 tracks in 256 kbit/s DRM-free AAC file format that matches tracks in any supported audio file formats in customers' iTunes libraries, including ALAC and MP3. Customers also have the choice to keep their original copies stored on their computers or have them replaced by copies from the iTunes Store.[35] Any music not available in the iTunes Store is uploaded for download onto customers' other supported devices and computers; doing this will not take storage from the customers' iCloud's storage allowance. Any such tracks stored in the higher quality lossless audio ALAC, or original uncompressed PCM formats, WAV and AIFF, are transcoded to 256 kbit/s DRM-free AAC format before uploading to the customers' iCloud storage account, leaving the original higher quality local files in their original format.[36]
Photo Stream was a service supplied with the basic iCloud service which allows users to store the most recent 1,000 photos on the iCloud servers for up to 30 days free of charge. When a photo is taken on a device with Photo Stream enabled, it automatically uploaded to iCloud servers. From there, it become available for viewing and saving on the rest of the user's Photo Stream-enabled devices. The photo was automatically removed from the server after 30 days or when it becomes photo number 1,001 in the user's stream. Photo Stream installed on a Mac or Windows desktop computer includes an option to have all photos permanently saved on that device. The service also integrated with Apple TV, allowing users to view their recent photos wirelessly on their HDTV.[42] In May 2023, Apple announced the discontinuation of Photo Stream, with uploads turned off on June 26, and the service turned off on July 26.[43]
iCloud Photos is a feature on iOS 8.1 or later and OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) or later, plus web app access. The service stores all of the user's photos, maintaining their original resolution and metadata. Users can access their iCloud Photos on supported devices via the new Photos app when available or via the iCloud Photos web app at iCloud.com, which helps limit the amount of local storage each device needs to use to store photos (particularly those with smaller storage capacities) by storing lower-resolution versions on the device, with the user having the option to keep some/all stored locally at a higher resolution.
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