EXIF Date Changer Lite enables you to quickly and easily adjust the date/time taken on your photos and scanned images. Adjust or set the ‘ date time taken’ of your digital photos – Compensate for incorrect camera settings or different time zones within seconds across an entire folder of images. 6) The 'Date Taken' field will now show the date taken, with time in minute increments so they display in the correct order in applications that use 'Date Taken'. Something to be aware of, ExifTool is only 32-bit, therefore if your photos need dating before 1 January 1970 (or after 19 January 2038) it's a bit more complicated as you will need to install ActivePerl and then use the Perl version of ExifTool.
Exchangeable Image Format, also known as EXIF, is a set of data that’s attached to every image you take. Most cameras and smartphones these days add basic parameters such as the mode in which the photo was taken, the shutter speed, ISO, aperture data, and sometimes even the location of the photograph. This presents a peculiar problem — when you click a picture of a beautiful bird perched on the windowsill in your house, your camera automatically adds the location of the picture, which could reveal your home address when you share it with others online.
Most social networks such as, and remove all of this data from photos when you upload them. However, when your photo is shared via email or cloud storage services such as or, this data is still present on pictures. To protect your privacy, it’s best to remove EXIF data from images. Here’s how you can do it.How to view, edit, and remove EXIF Data including location on AndroidFollow these steps to view EXIF data on your Android smartphone. Open Google Photos on the phone - if needed. Open any photo and tap the i icon. This will show you all the EXIF data you need.To remove EXIF data from your photos, you’ll need a third-party app such as.
Once you’ve installed the app, follow these steps. Open EXIF Eraser. Tap Select Image and Remove EXIF. Select the image from your library. The app will show you all of its EXIF data and tell you that it’ll remove it. Tap Ok.We tried a few apps that let you edit EXIF data and offer granular control on the EXIF data you can remove, but none of them worked flawlessly for us.If for some reason, you don’t want location data saved with your images not too difficult to prevent your phone from doing that. Follow these steps to stop your Android phone from saving location with your photos:.
Open the camera app on your Android device and go to Settings by tapping the Gear icon. This varies from phone to phone as there’s no standard camera app on all Android devices. After that turn off Store location data to prevent geotagging of photos. This option may have a slightly different wording but it’s there in pretty much every Android phone’s camera app.How to view, edit, and remove EXIF Data including location on Windowshas a very good native metadata editor that lets you quickly view or remove EXIF data from images. Here’s what you need to do. Go to the folder where your image is located.
Right-click the image click Properties. Click the Details tab. Click Remove Properties and Personal Information. Then you can click Create a copy with all possible properties removed for a copy of the photo with EXIF data stripped. Alternatively you can edit metadata by clicking Remove the following properties from this file. Once you’re done, click OK.For bulk removal of EXIF data, you will need a third-party app such as.
Follow these steps to get the job done. Download and then download all. Install both. Open IrfanView and press B on the keyboard.
This will open the batch conversion menu in IrfanView. On the right hand side, select all the images you want to process and then click the Add button below. On the left side, click Options and uncheck the following three options Keep original EXIF data, Keep original IPTC data and Keep original JPG-Comment. Click Start Batch after selecting the directory you want the output files in. Now all your photos will have been stripped of EXIF data.How to view and edit EXIF Data including location on macOSOn, the Photos app does more than what it does on. The app lets you view EXIF data and remove location data from your images.
It doesn’t let you edit or remove all parameters of EXIF data however. Follow these steps to view EXIF data on Photos for macOS and to remove location data too.
Open Photos for macOS. Open the image you want to edit. Tap the i button on the top-right. Here you can view EXIF data in the photo and add a description and keywords if you wish. You can remove location data from a photo by clicking Image in the top bar and then clicking Location Hide Location. You can also edit the date and time on the photo by clicking Image Adjust date and time. Change the time and date and then click Adjust.To remove EXIF data entirely, you’re going to have to rely on a third-party app such as.
Here’s how. Download. Click the + icon and select the images you want to strip EXIF data from.
You can select multiple images too. The app will automatically remove EXIF data from the image.For greater control over this process, click the Gear icon and go through the options. These let you decide whether you want to reduce file size a lot at the cost of image quality or if you simply want to remove metadata without losing image quality. How to view and edit EXIF Data including location on iPhone and iPadOn iOS surprisingly enough you can’t see much in terms of EXIF data via the Photos app.
For granular control on viewing and removing EXIF data on photos from iPhone and iPad, you need to download a free app such as or (both free with in-app purchases). These apps let you edit and remove the EXIF data from photos, but editing EXIF data will require you to pay Rs. 249 to unlock the app’s premium features.
In Photo Investigator, follow these steps:. Tap the gallery icon on the bottom-left. Select the picture you want to edit EXIF data for.
To view EXIF data, you can tap the various icons below the image. To edit or remove EXIF data (after you pay for the app), tap Metadata. Now select Remove or Edit.You can achieve similar results from any other apps that offer this feature too, we just happened to use these two and found them to work.If you are privacy conscious, you might want to disable adding location data to your photos. Be aware that disabling geotagging of photos will result in the “Places” album being empty and we’ve found that album as a good way to search for old photos. Here’s how to disable geotagging on and. Go to Settings Privacy Location Services Camera.
Tap Never.We weren’t able to find any apps that reliably remove EXIF data in bulk on Android and iOS. Do you use any apps to bulk remove EXIF data on smartphones? Which apps do you use to view, edit, and remove EXIF data from your photos? Let us know via the comments. For more tutorials, visit our.
That depends on whether you want to change the file modification time or the embedded exif meta data or both. To me the exif data is more important.To batch change the exif date in a group of files I'd recommend Microsoft's free. If you select all of the images by holding shift after you've loaded them into the program you can change all the dates at once and you can do it by offset instead of setting them all the same like some other programs.If you care about the date and time windows shows there are tools that can change that I don't have any off the top of my head. Optimally, you'd want something that will make the exif date the file modification date.
Quotefrom.DC.:not sure what that's supposed to mean.Pictures taken with a digital camera are embedded with meta data that includes the time the picture was taken and exposure settings etc. These files also have creation & modification times that are stored as part of the file system.Most image organizing programs look to the exif data not the file system to determine when a picture was taken. This way, the date/time the picture was taken are preserved even if you edit the file.If you know of a way to EDIT the exif data in a file (or a batch of files) using IrfanView please enlighten me. To the best of my knowledge IrfanView can't do it.IrfanView does have a way to set the file system date/time back to the date in the exif data. But that won't do the OP any good. Quotefrom jkee:IrfanView is a solid program that i've used for years.
But to the best of my knowledge there is no way to use it to batch edit exif data in files. You can use it to make the file modification time that shows up in windows match the exif data. For that matter afik, IrfanView doesn't allow you to edit the exif data at all.I see you can reset it, etc. I do not see an edit function in the save as settings.Wait.if the op set the computer's date and time to the desired time the photos are to be set to, then they could use IrfanView to reset to 'current date and time'.t hat being artificially changed by the altering of the system clock on the PC being used.
Quotefrom.DC.:I see you can reset it, etc. I do not see an edit function in the save as settings.Wait.if the op set the computer's date and time to the desired time the photos are to be set to, then they could use IrfanView to reset to 'current date and time'.t hat being artificially changed by the altering of the system clock on the PC being used.Well that's one way to do it There are other tools that are more user friendly to batch edit the date and time on photos (two of which are linked to in the thread).I have to say I was surprised I couldn't find an easy way to do it with IrfanView. IrfanView is usually the first stop for me when I'm batch editing a group of photos, but this is one common task it doesn't seem to do well. Maybe it will get added to a future version. Quotefrom jkee:Well that's one way to do it There are other tools that are more user friendly to batch edit the date and time on photos (two of which are linked to in the thread).I have to say I was surprised I couldn't find an easy way to do it with IrfanView. IrfanView is usually the first stop for me when I'm batch editing a group of photos, but this is one common task it doesn't seem to do well.
Maybe it will get added to a future version.You would think it would.that's why I really had to scratch my chin and think/look at it.I do hope they add it in the future, as it is my 'go-to' image program. Quotefrom InLikeTim:Thanks for the help everyone. I followed up on all the links and did some research today trying to nail this thing down.I'm really surprised this isn't a standard feature in everything from PhotoShop to Windows Picture Viewer.Strangely,since it's such a handy batch converter, IrfanView won't batch convert Exif data.Posters in their forum have been requesting the feature for years.I stumbled upon before getting the first response and it did successfully batch convert the Exif data.The interface is a little rough, but the program hasn't been updated since 2002.Hands down the best free tool I tried.
Pro Photo Tools easily adjusted the time and date of my selected pictures. Onlyproblem I found was the date adjustment is limited to 99 days. I couldn't find a way to fix a the date if it was off by a year.This is what I would use if the 'date picture taken' was off by a year or more. EXIF Date Changer will allow entering more than two digitsin the day value and fixed Exif data that was off by years. However, it lacks a thumbnail viewer or the ability to choose specific files in a folder.Thanks again everyone.Also, regarding Exif data for those unfamiliar with the.
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