Adding Date and Time Stamp to Photos

FYI, there are 3rd party apps which do this already.

Here’s one example:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/context-camera/id662559044

Do you want this date and time to be added to the metadata or placed as text on the photo itself?

If the former you can select the photo and go to the Image ➙ Adjust Date and Time menu.

and set the date to what you want.

There is no shortcut to that but you should are able to created one with a macro editor like Keyboard Maestro. KM is probably the most powerful of the macro editors and simpler ones can be found in the App Store under "macro".

If you want to place the date and time on the image itself you'll have to do that with the Edit ➙ Markup tool where you can add a text box on an image and type anything you'd like into it.

You would have to get the date and time beforehand to past into the text box. You could use a macro to get into the Edit mode and open the markup editing window.

ADDENDUM: It appears that there are apps that can do that automatically per Chattanoogan. Who know?

This is also for a Mac, isn't it? The iPhone doesn't show the titles like a Mac, only the captions, even on iOS27.

I also wouldn't spoil my photos by scribbling directly onto the photo, at least I would duplicate it and add the graphics to the copy.

Alternately, since macOS 27 and iOS27 we can extend the canvas with the new AI tools in Photos and thus add a border around the photo. Now we can write text to a border, like in the good old days, when we had BorderFX for Aperture.

My suggestion for an iPhone with iOS27:

• Use the extend tool as described here: Clean up, extend, and reframe photos on iPhone - Apple Support to add a wide border below the photo.
• Use the free mark-up tool (Use Markup on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support) to add a text field on the added border and enter the date. Or a third-party app as suggested by Chattanoogan.

If you don't want to "burn" the date permanently to image pixels, but just want to see the dates without Get Info panel:

Enable Photos > View > Metadata > Titles.

Then inside Photos use some script to copy date to Title.

Or outside Photos use some 3rd party app like GraphicConverter, A Better Finder Rename, exiftool etc to copy EXIF date to filename (or file creation date to EXIF date and filename). Then import to Photos.

The result looks like this (...that _d32_023 is just my memo where to find the original slide if/when I want to make a better scan of it instead that rather low quality scan done with a quick 'n dirty little cheap scanner. GraphicConverter can quite easily by trial and error do very complicated file renaming indexes etc without the user having to learn grep and regular expressions):

Forget my first post. It was for a Mac and didn't see the iPhone referenced in your bio.

léonie wrote:

This is also for a Mac, isn't it? The iPhone doesn't show the titles like a Mac, only the captions, even on iOS27.

D'oh! I somehow didn't notice the OP was using iOS.