Edit a photo's date on Mac, without losing the rest of its metadata
Wrong camera clock, scanned prints, or files that imported with today’s date? Fix the capture date and keep everything else intact.
Scanned photos, a camera clock that was never set, or images that imported with today’s date all leave you with the wrong capture date. The catch is that some tools re-encode the image or wipe other fields when they touch the date. You want to correct the date and leave the pixels and the rest of the metadata exactly as they were.
Do it in MetaScope
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Open your photos in MetaScope
Drag in a single photo or a whole folder. MetaScope reads the existing EXIF, IPTC and XMP so you can see the current dates before changing anything.
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Set or shift the date
Set an exact capture date (DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate and friends), or shift a whole selection by a fixed amount. Apply it to one image or hundreds at once.
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Write the change
MetaScope updates only the date fields in place. The image data and every other metadata field are left untouched.
Editing dates elsewhere can re-encode the photo or drop other metadata. MetaScope writes the date fields in place, so nothing else changes.