Photo Date Adjustator
Photo Date Adjustator is a macOS utility for correcting photo and video capture dates and matching file timestamps to the media metadata.
What is Photo Date Adjustator?
Photo Date Adjustator is a native Mac photo utility that helps users correct date and time information stored in photo and video files. It is designed for situations where a camera clock was wrong, files were copied between systems, or filesystem timestamps no longer match the original capture time. The app reads creation-related metadata from supported media formats, lets you adjust those timestamps, and can write the updated values back to the metadata and to the file's created or modified dates. It also supports bulk adjustments, including shifting timestamps by an offset, correcting timezone-related issues, and distributing times across a sequence of files. This makes it useful for organizing media libraries, restoring chronological order, and cleaning up imported archives on macOS.
Key features
- Adjust photo and video creation timestamps stored in metadata
- Update file creation and modified dates to match corrected media timestamps
- Process multiple files in bulk for large photo or video sets
- Shift timestamps by time offsets to fix wrong camera clock settings
- Correct timezone-related date and time problems
- Distribute timestamps across a sequence of files when capture times need spacing
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
This app's behavior is consistent with its purpose: it reads and changes date metadata in photo and video files and can also update filesystem timestamps. Because it edits metadata and may overwrite output during repeated processing, review a small test batch first and keep backups of important originals before making bulk changes. The app's published privacy details state that no data is collected, but users should still grant file access only to folders they intend to modify.
Recommendation: Keep Photo Date Adjustator if you use it to fix camera dates, restore chronological order, or sync file timestamps with media metadata. If you no longer edit photo or video timestamps, you can remove it without affecting macOS itself, but keep your original media backups if the adjusted dates matter to your library.
Common paths
/Applications/Photo Date Adjustator.app
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