What caused pictures in my photo album to change original date on their own?

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What caused pictures in my photo album to change original date on their own?

Large sections of my photo album have changed original date what would cause this? My memories have been ruined because I do not know when they were taken.

Posted on Nov 1, 2025 8:39 AM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Nov 1, 2025 3:57 PM in response to Hope_I_Am_helpful

We can't see your machine, much less read your mind. We rely on you to give us enough information so that we can understand your issue if we are to help. We need a full description of the issue, information on what devices or machines you're referring to, the operating system (and version of it) currently on the machine. What you expect to happen, and where it fails. Err on giving too much information rather than too little.

So, what version of the OS on what device? That's key. Where are you seeing the dates reported? How did the images get there and what is their source?

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Answer 2

Nov 1, 2025 5:08 PM in response to Yer_Man

The pictures are in my iCloud storage annd are changing the original dates. I am using iOS 26. My question is what would cause my photos to change the original date? Sorry for not being completely clear. My problem is that when I look at my photos in my album I have pictures from 6 years ago that say the original date taken was 6 months ago. I know my question sounds pretty strange, I can not believe I have to ask such a strange question but here I am asking because original dates on photos are changing.

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Answer 3

Nov 1, 2025 5:33 PM in response to Yer_Man

The pictures in my iCloud storage are changing the original dates taken. I am using iOS 26. My question is what would cause my photos to change the original date? Sorry for not being completely clear. My problem is that when I look at my photos in my album I have pictures from say 6 years ago that say the original date taken was 6 months ago. I know my question sounds pretty strange, I can not believe I have to ask such a strange question but here I am asking because original dates on photos are changing. I had several pictures that were not even taken originally at the same time span or even same location end up with the original date taken being changed to some random day? Weird right? I have seen other similar questions being posted in the past with no answer and those questions are now locked so you can not even ask those people if they ever learned what had caused it to happen to them. I am sure the same will happen to this post and the mystery will never get solved. What I really want to know is how is it even possible for the original date a picture is taken to get changed in the first place and what would cause this to happen to a normal user who has not modified anything ever?

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