I received a photo last November in iMessage my friend took and I downloaded it today, but when I click on the info button after download, it has a time stamp of February 2024, not November 2023. Why is this date/time showing as February when it was sent in November? Could my friend have adjusted the timestamp on the actual photo which updated on the photo they sent to me?
iPhone 15 Plus
Many methods to share a photo will remove metadata like the capture time, the location, named faces etc for privacy reasons, so nobody can tell by the shared photos where and when the photo has been taken. When you save a shared photo to Photos, and the shared photo does not have an embedded capture date, the Photos,app may be using the current date as the date taken.
Very often metadata carrying date, location etc is dropped and resolution downscaled when sharing images in social media (Facebook, WhatsApp etc). When my family members share an image that is a keeper I ask them to re-send it to me via an AirDrop setting that keeps the original image or email the original.
Timestamp of photo wrong?
