Videos do not maintain original date when transferring from Iphone4 to IPad 2

11 years ago • updated 11 years ago • 1

When I transfer video from my IPhone to my IPad, they no longer fall into nice chronological order. Instead they show today's date (or the transfer date). Thus a trip to China taken 2 years ago appears to have just happened. Is there a way to put these in order or insure that future transfers will maintain the original date? Otherwise, great app.

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11 years ago

Hello Kemp,

Thanks for contacting us and posting your inquiry.

If you choose the photos in the order you want them to appear, they should show up in that order when transferred. When you transfer from iPhone to iPad all the header data (like timestamp, GPS, etc) should be retained on photos and videos. How are you reading the time and date of your videos on your iPad/iPhone? What version of our app are you running on your device? Also what iOS are you running on your iPhone and iPad?

What may be happening is that if you are transferring to an older iPad the app needs to re-encode the video so it can be played on the iPad. When doing that it may not be preserving the metadata. We are looking at this issue to try to find a fix for this.

On the iOS7 'Photos' app you can view your photos either via the 'Photos' tab or the 'Albums' tab. On the 'Albums' tab you can see your photos/videos as you did before on iOS6 (via Camera roll or other albums). On the 'Photos' tab they are organized by time so the photos/videos will be arranged according to the 'exif' date which should correspond to the date the photo was taken. One tip is to go to the 'Years' view and drill down from there to the correct date where the photo/video should be.

Please let me know if this helps or if you have any other questions!

Best,

Amber
Photo Transfer App
www.phototransferapp.com

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