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- “photos from one evening are now dated as being months apart”
- “only goes to December 2024 but my memory is clearly show stuff from 2022 and 2023”
- “They can search by date/year but it no longer shows them in chronological order. On their phone they are ordered by date but on my computer its a free for all”
- “download video on july 20 and you put it in June folder just because the file has a date”
- “They do not appear in the timeline of google photo's because the file does not have date taken metadata.”
- “Everything is 1 year or 6 months ahead or behind. It's impossible to look for specific photos now”
- “if I search for "23 April 2023" i get a whole bunch of seemingly random photos”
- “all photos uploading to the same date and time (5 July 2013 at 8.11 am) although that is definitely not the date and time they were taken”
- “can't find images passed a couple days old”
- “Pics are in the wrong chronological order, or repeating themselves like a warhol. Also, can't edit them in the album anymore”
- “None of the photos are chronologically correct by original date”
- “saved media file is sorted by some random date and placed accordingly. You saved a picture? It won't be last in the list of Recents”
- “the "all photos" timeline is for some reason all mixed, such as a trip in July is labeled October”
- “all of the dates to some of my photos dating back to at least December of last year all have wrong dates on them!”
- “The dates of when the pictures were taken are not accurate. When you want to access to the photos through another app, you can't browse by album”
- “navigating the folders can be a bit of a pain in order to find a specific photo”
- “some very important screen shots on my old phone did not make it to my new phone”
- “Many pictures do show up, but a lot don't. Some are entire days missing. The issue is that they do not show up in the general all photos gallery in desktop web only.”
- “search brings out all the pictures and videos all lumped up, even from as far as three or four years ago without any categorization”
- “It routinely assigns the wrong dates to photos, making them difficult to find.”
- “Photos taken in airplane mode just default to a random date, meaning you can't find them very easily”
- “I can't find a way to sort my photos using the Google photos app.”
- “Photos were assigned a date of "Friday, January 12, 1968" when the picture taken 12/1/2004”
- “dates get messed up which makes the photo harder to find back as it wouldn't be in the same range”
- “downloaded a pic at 12:55am on the 27th of July...found it saved...5:32pm on the 5th of May, 2012”
- “Photos don't show up and things are missing. This is the one place I store all my photos.”
- “the newer, edited photo (i.e. the one I want) is saved to the time I edited it. So it's no longer grouped with those photos”
- “Rarely the actual date of the picture is the same as the date on the gallery”
- “The photos that were from 4 years ago are photos I have been looking for for years. I am missing all of the "rediscover this day photos"”
- “Photos detects that is from another date and move them to that date instead of leaving them in the date that I got them”
- “photos disappear from the Google photos tab only to be found when searched by date”
- “Google Photos doesn't recognise and sort by the creation or modified date but rather puts the date as the upload date”
- “My photos are being stored, on my app and on my PC, out of order. I will take a picture with my iPhone, sync to my Google Photos App and they will show up on the wrong day.”
- “half my photos have the incorrect time once they appear in Google Photos some times are out by 9 - 12 hours”
- “all of my WhatsApp photos are stored in the last few days, as opposed to over a few years”
- “Once uploaded on Google Foto: Date and time: 22.05.2024 h19.18 - seems it considers the date and time as the field "modified data"”
- “photos and videoes are always goin in wrong orders of the date”
- “Photos that were uploaded years ago suddenly appear in a completely wrong year (e.g. the uploaded in 2010, appear as 2006).”
- “photos are displayed as if they were taken on the Reset date instead the original date”
- “photos showing out of chronological order and attaching the wrong dates, location, etc. to them”
- “when I download google photos on my phone the dates are different”
- “many of the dates are suddenly wrong and different occasions are lumped together in the wrong date”
- “pictures are not displayed (on the google photo app) on the right date order. But all displayed on the date of the restore.”
- “those pictures are from six years ago but half have the correct year and the other half are a year earlier”
- “all of my photos into the date range that I changed my phone...like the years and months don't matter anymore”
- “Many pics had shifted in time by several days/weeks or several months when viewing them on my new device.”
- “all my photos got the date of that day (6/4) so now all my photos are "taken" yesterday”
- “all my photos suddenly rearranged themselves and are now in the wrong dates in the grid”
- “My Google Photos suddenly show wrong dates and order. It is too annoyed for checking each photos and edit the correct day.”
- “The dates of the photos are now the date it was saved to drive and not the original date it was taken.”
- “Media from whatsapp does not appear in chronological order”
- “Photos that were already in Google photos have changed the date. If I look at a photos details the date will not match the date that Google photos shows.”
- “every time I try to access anything older than 2019 it's chugging away so hard...it just continuously bounces me back to photos in 2019”