How to edit EXIF data on iPhone: date, time, location and more
Scanned a box of prints and they all say 2024? Camera clock was on the wrong time zone for a whole trip? Photos from a DSLR with no GPS? All of these are metadata problems, and all of them are fixable in bulk, written straight into the photos in your library.
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The two-tap way, with EXIF Viewer
- 1
Select the photos to change
One, or a whole trip. Multi-select supports hundreds of photos at a time.
- 2
Set or shift the date and time
Set every photo to the same date, or shift them all by an offset (e.g. +5 hours 30 minutes) to fix a wrong time zone while keeping the intervals between shots.
- 3
Set the location
Search for a place or drop a pin on the map. Or remove the location entirely.
- 4
Apply
Changes are written to the actual photo files, so Photos, Lightroom, Google Photos and every other app see the corrected metadata.
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Questions
Short answers first; the guides above go deeper.
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Can the Photos app change the date of a photo?
Yes, since iOS 15: open a photo, tap ⓘ, then Adjust next to the date. It's one photo at a time, and it edits the Photos database, not the EXIF inside the file, so an exported original still carries the old date. EXIF Viewer writes into the file.
Can I edit keywords, star rating, copyright or caption?
Yes. IPTC star rating, keywords, title, description, copyright and artist fields can be viewed and edited.
Does editing EXIF reduce image quality?
No. Only the metadata section of the file is rewritten; the image data is untouched.
Every photo has a story in its metadata. Read it, fix it, or erase it.
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