P: Lightroom is changing creation dates when exporting photos

After a lot of debugging, I've found the issue, which is really silly. On iOS, go to Settings > General > Date & Time and here make sure "24 Hour Time" is enabled. For some reason, having the time displayed in 12hr segments makes the Lightroom bug out and not export with the proper capture time. 

I'm experiencing the exact same problem on iOS 18. When I export a photo with a specific capture date, it puts the photo at the end of the library, instead in it's appropriate location, like it was on <=iOS 17. Instead now, the photos get exported with the date of capture being the export date.

On iOS 18, when exporting a photo, the capture date of the original pre-edited photo is not perserved. Instead, the capture date gets filled with the date/time of export.

When exporting pictures to my iOS camera roll, the picture's date is changed to date/time of the export whereas a while ago Lightroom used to apply the date the picture has been taken. Is there a switch where I can change this behaviour of Lightroom?

thanks

Since you talk about the option of "autmatically writing metadata into XMP" you are referring to Lightroom Classic which is a different program than this forum is for. Adobe made the naming of their programs very confusing. Anyway, as already said, you need to realize that the file creation date is NOT the same as the capture time metadata. The file creation date is simply when you created the exported file. That HAS to be the exact time you hit export. However the internal metadata in the file will show you that the capture date and time in the exported file is still exactly when you originally shot the image. You are just looking at the wrong metadata. You can not see the image capture date in Finder unfortunately (which is an Apple problem, not a Adobe issue) so you can't sort a folder in Finder on the image capture date metadata. In Lightroom Classic however, it is completely trivial to organize images on capture date. So this is more a question of your wokflow and how you organize your images. If you just use Lightroom Classic to organize images this all doesn't matter as you can ssort on capture date. However if you want to organize your exported images in Finder, you need to do something else as Apple finder simply doesn't have this possibility. ot of us simply do not use finder to organize images and just use Lightroom Classic itself and just export new copies if you need an image. If you really need to organize the exported files outside of Lightroom, you should look into Bridge which should come with your Classic subscription. Bridge is a great content browser. Contrary to finder, the date created column in Bridge is actually taken from the capture date metadata and not from the file creation date.

Can you clarify what you mean when you refer to "the creation date"? Do you mean the date/time that the image was taken using a digital camera (called the capture date/time) or do you mean the date/time that the exported file was created by the OS file system?

When a file is exported from Lightroom a new file is created. As such, it must be dated at the time it is created. That is why it has a new date.

Hi,

Lightoom on my iPhone has started to export the photos based on the day I edit and save them to my camera roll as opposed to the actual date the photo was takem. How do I change this setting? This issue didn't have until the last two weeks.

Thanks,

Harsihta