Missing exif info on apple X photos

[masteroffnone]

I have many Iphone 10 photos with missing correct exif creation date. For example this photo was taken on 2020:7:29 (Looking in my agenda, it was an import event).

What am I doing wrong? I'd like to organize my photos in <year><month><day> folders and this leads me to issues.

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C:\Windows\exiftool>exiftool.exe -time:all -a -G1 c:\photos\IMG_6538.JPG
[System]        File Modification Date/Time     : 2020:07:31 19:30:45+02:00
[System]        File Access Date/Time           : 2020:12:04 20:51:31+01:00
[System]        File Creation Date/Time         : 2020:12:04 20:27:03+01:00
[ICC-header]    Profile Date Time               : 2017:07:07 13:22:32



C:\Windows\exiftool>exiftool.exe -a c:\photos\IMG_6538.JPG
ExifTool Version Number         : 12.12
File Name                       : IMG_6538.JPG
Directory                       : c:/photos
File Size                       : 6.1 MiB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2020:07:31 19:30:45+02:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2020:12:04 20:53:33+01:00
File Creation Date/Time         : 2020:12:04 20:27:03+01:00
File Permissions                : rw-rw-rw-
File Type                       : JPEG
File Type Extension             : jpg
MIME Type                       : image/jpeg
Exif Byte Order                 : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
Orientation                     : Horizontal (normal)
X Resolution                    : 72
Y Resolution                    : 72
Resolution Unit                 : inches
Y Cb Cr Positioning             : Centered
Exif Version                    : 0221
Components Configuration        : Y, Cb, Cr, -
Flashpix Version                : 0100
Color Space                     : sRGB
Exif Image Width                : 4032
Exif Image Height               : 3024
Scene Capture Type              : Standard
Profile CMM Type                : Apple Computer Inc.
Profile Version                 : 4.0.0
Profile Class                   : Display Device Profile
Color Space Data                : RGB
Profile Connection Space        : XYZ
Profile Date Time               : 2017:07:07 13:22:32
Profile File Signature          : acsp
Primary Platform                : Apple Computer Inc.
CMM Flags                       : Not Embedded, Independent
Device Manufacturer             : Apple Computer Inc.
Device Model                    :
Device Attributes               : Reflective, Glossy, Positive, Color
Rendering Intent                : Perceptual
Connection Space Illuminant     : 0.9642 1 0.82491
Profile Creator                 : Apple Computer Inc.
Profile ID                      : ca1a9582257f104d389913d5d1ea1582
Profile Description             : Display P3
Profile Copyright               : Copyright Apple Inc., 2017
Media White Point               : 0.95045 1 1.08905
Red Matrix Column               : 0.51512 0.2412 -0.00105
Green Matrix Column             : 0.29198 0.69225 0.04189
Blue Matrix Column              : 0.1571 0.06657 0.78407
Red Tone Reproduction Curve     : (Binary data 32 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Chromatic Adaptation            : 1.04788 0.02292 -0.0502 0.02959 0.99048 -0.01706 -0.00923 0.01508 0.75168
Blue Tone Reproduction Curve    : (Binary data 32 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Green Tone Reproduction Curve   : (Binary data 32 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Image Width                     : 4032
Image Height                    : 3024
Encoding Process                : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample                 : 8
Color Components                : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling            : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)
Image Size                      : 4032x3024
Megapixels                      : 12.2

C:\Windows\exiftool>

[masteroffnone]

I'm starting the think it might has to do something with dropbox. I have been uploading some of my photos automatically to dropbox.

Looks like i use .heic originally and when uploading to dropbox it gets to .jpg and removing some exif data 

[Phil Harvey]

All I can say is that this definitely isn't an original iPhone JPG image.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

That seems to be a very strange for Dropbox to be changing the format of the image, but it looks like it's an option.  See here.

Have you checked to see if the originals are still on the phone?

Otherwise, there isn't any time data in the file to fix it with and the filename isn't a timestamp.

[masteroffnone]

After testing with one photo with dropbox camera upload (iphone X to dropbox) it does not indicate it's changing the EXIF data. Thats the good news. Have to look further what has gone wrong in my setup..

[masteroffnone]

Have you checked to see if the originals are still on the phone?

Nope, i deleted these.