Some Mac users report that Mac Photos does not use the date taken after importing the photos into Photo Library, but instead uses a different date display on the information plane. When they check the original photo in the Finder, they can view the exif original date and time, which is different from the date shown in the Mac photo. This causes the photos in the photo library to be sorted by the wrong date and time.

Date display in the Mac Photos information plane: October 3, 2022.

Date display in the photo Exif tag: January 1, 2015.

When we view them in Finder, we can see that the Created date and Modified date is October 3, 2022, the Content created date is January 1, 2015.

It means that the Mac Photos application is using "Date Created" or "Date Modified" as the display date, rather than the date the content was created, which is the date it was taken. Next we need to use the content creation date as the the Photo library display date.

To efficiently update the photo dates in your Photo Library using the original content creation dates in bulk, we recommend using the Photo Exifer application. This powerful photo metadata editor allows you to quickly copy the EXIF date from hundreds or even thousands of photos to Photo Library dates with a single click. Download and install Photo Exifer application on your Mac.

Run Photo Exifer application, Click Photo Library tab to load system photo library or go to File menu -> Open Photo Library… to load other photo library. And then select photos in Photo Exifer, click Quick Action -> Batch Edit Photo dates in the Photo Library -> Use original photo camera date as the Photo Library photo date. It will be done.

After changing, we check the photo in the Mac Photos app, the photo library display date is January 1, 2015 now.

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