iOS 11.0.1 Photos and Time Zones

[LoKan]

Hi guys,

I updated my iPhone 7 Plus to iOS 11.0.1 yesterday, and I noticed an ugly bug (I hope it’s not a feature) in the Photos app. I have also seen it on friends devices, meaning it’s not account or device related.

Most of the pictures I took with an iPhone in another time zone are edited to show a relative time to that time zone.

For example, I was in Japan few years ago, and a picture taken in the afternoon is now displayed as take at midnight. There is no change for pictures taken with a regular camera ; they keep their date and time correctly.

Writing, I mostly want to know if I am the only one with this problem (so far, we are three) and if you know how to fix that (or if I have to wait for Apple to edit that automatically in a new update, or on iCloud).

Thank you for your future answers, and feedback.

 

[LoKan]

Me again…

From my tests, the problem appears even when you didn't update to iOS 11.0.1. I asked two friends if they had this problem while using iOS 11 but iCloud Photo Library, and… they have the same issue.

So the problem seems to be an iCloud update the night of the iOS 11.0.1 release.

Anybody noticed this ?

 

[AsherN]

As far as I can see, that has been there for ever. Photos, like all time stamps, are UTC. Display is corrected to the current TZ.

 

[LoKan]

For me and the 30ish people I asked go check that, it’s new.
Only the iPhone pictures are “corrected”. The ones from my camera are not, and they show the time they were taken, like they are supposed to do.

I called Apple Support, and this is new to them too.

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

Just checked and grrrr, yes. Previously, it would leave the time zone intact.

Sigh. Apple.

 

[AsherN]

It adjusted for TZ on 10.3

Your camera stamps with the time it knows. The phone stamps with UTC

 

[LoKan]

It adjusted for TZ on 10.3

Your camera stamps with the time it knows. The phone stamps with UTC

Again, it's not right. All the pictures taken with my iPhone before the release of iOS 11.0.1 had the date and time of the place where/when I shot them. Pictures taken since that update still works like that. But all the pictures taken before are now modified.

I hope they have the power to revert that stupid issue !

 

[realpras]

Yea, I can confirm this happens on me too on my iPhone.

I think this is a bug iOS-side; on High Sierra, the displayed times are the local times where and when they were taken, not my current device's time zone.

 

[mrochester]

I’m seeing this issue too. I’ve got 4 iOS wallpapers I downloaded over a year ago suddenly show as being added on Monday this week.

 

[AsherN]

I’m seeing this issue too. I’ve got 4 iOS wallpapers I downloaded over a year ago suddenly show as being added on Monday this week.

Not what we're talking about. What is being seen, and for me I saw it on 10.3 as well, is that the timestamp shown is adjusted to the current TZ. I was showing friends pictures from a Europe trip last month, and they all showed the right date, but 6 hours earlier.

 

[xbpr]

I never noticed this before, but can confirm it’s happening.

Also, I just noticed that all of my reminders that had a specific date/time set have adjusted to the current time zone. Never noticed that before either.

 

[AsherN]

I never noticed this before, but can confirm it’s happening.

Also, I just noticed that all of my reminders that had a specific date/time set have adjusted to the current time zone. Never noticed that before either.

Calendar items have been like that forever. All calendars work like that. Very useful when you travel.

 

[xbpr]

Calendar items have been like that forever. All calendars work like that. Very useful when you travel.

I have the time zone override set for calendars and I could have sworn that the reminder time zones were overridden as well? Anyway, back to the topic...

 

[thewhitehart]

Yea, I can confirm this happens on me too on my iPhone.

I think this is a bug iOS-side; on High Sierra, the displayed times are the local times where and when they were taken, not my current device's time zone.

This is exactly the problem I’m having. I’m running 11.2.1 on an iPhone 7. It’s still not fixed yet.

 

[Darrensk8]

For me and the 30ish people I asked go check that, it’s new.
Only the iPhone pictures are “corrected”. The ones from my camera are not, and they show the time they were taken, like they are supposed to do.

I called Apple Support, and this is new to them too.

I spoke to Apple support about this exact issue a few OS’s back and they send it was intended behaviour. It isn’t new.

 

[timborama]

Leave it to Apple to screw up something so trivial. I dont give a crap what the time in London (home TZ) was when I took the photo in Tokyo. I want to see the Tokyo time. What a mess. I guess Apple engineers never travel.