Destroys Live Images
As an exit editor it works fine. But if you are dealing with live images it does not save them as such. It makes them a still image which it should not do.
Help
Is there anyway to remove the data of which app I downloaded the photo from??
Developer is highly responsive to user input!
I’m updating my original review where I had commended this app’s ability to quickly, easily, and successfully batch-edit specific metadata fields of many hundreds of photos on my phone (*), but had also complained about the unexpectedly high ‘disk’ space rapidly consumed by this app (as per Settings / General / iPhone Storage) during use (without any explanation for why this space was being consumed or method to view its contents, clear them, or cause iOS to release that space).
At about the same time of writing my review, I also reached out directly to the developer (via email) — and the developer quickly responded after spending a few hours of investigating my reported issue. The developer explained that when this App edits a photo, iOS creates a hidden folder where temporary copies of each one are stored — and since I’d edited over 1000 (and maybe half as many more while first figuring out the app and what I specifically needed it to do) that cache had grown rather large — to nearly 5gb.
The developer went on to explain that normally iOS would in time, on its own, clear that cache (presumably whenever a lack of existing free space would otherwise effect other apps or iOS’s normal functioning; or after a given amount of time if the former didn’t happen first).
But the developer also agreed with me the this process could both be explained and handled better; and committed to updating their app to do both — and in less than a week since I first reported my issue, they have accomplished this — even when counting the inevitable delay between when a developer submits an update and when Apple pushes that update to the public.
The app now both explains that it may consume a significant amount of disk space during heavy use, and offers the user the ability to manually clear that cache at any time.
Quite extraordinary.
Many thanks to the developer for not only responding, but taking positive action — and I wish them the best of success with this app and all other endeavors they choose to pursue.
(*) I required this app because of a peculiar issue I was having keeping photos organized in the order I arranged them on my iPhone and iPad; which I frustratingly could not find any solution for within Apple’s software alone.
First: Apple allows users to add selected photos from your overall library to specific folders (“albums”) their users may create, and allows users to drag and drop those photos manually within the albums to display their photos in the exact order they prefer.
Second: Apple DOESN’T respect their users ‘custom order’ arrangement when they copy those photos (or a subset of those photos) to a new album.
Apple instead reorganizes those photos either oldest-first or newest-first based on the images metadata date tags (which might be the date the photo was taken or simply a date the photo was copied, reproduced, or recently accessed — it is a data field that is truly not helpful at all in a great many cases).
Third: I figured out that if I air-dropped my organized photos (selected from the album in which I’d organized them) from my iPhone to my iPad, the iPad would organize them in its “recents” folder by the date and time they were air-dropped — NOT by the date and time included in the photos’ metadata.
This gets them onto the iPad in order — but only in the recents folder. Copying the newly air-dropped files to their own album once again causes them to be disorganized from their custom sequence and reshuffled based on date & time of the metadata tag. Grrr!!
Fourth: Apple allows users to change the date and time of specific photos. But to change the date and time of multiple photos; Apple only permits displacing / shifting the date and time from what each tag says by whatever arbitrary duration the user requests. This does NOT solve the problem; as each photo will still sort chronologically, often based on bad data; and I DO NOT WANT MY CUSTOM ORGANIZED PHOTOS SORTED CHRONOLOGICALLY.
Fifth: It finally became clear the only solution was to delete the date and time from the photos’ metadata tags; to prevent Apple using them to rearrange my photos. But this is impossible; because Apple will always assign a date and time if missing. So here we come to Metadata Editor.
Sixth: with Metadata Editor I was able to set every manually organized photo to the exact same date and time: 12:00am, Jan 1, 1900.
Now copying the files from “Recents” to a new folder kept my photos in order — except backwards, because recents can only be arranged with new photos at the bottom. So I actually needed to airdrop the backwards organized albums back to my iPhone; and then create albums from the backwards recents that put the photos back in normal order again.
Tedious!!
But impossible without Metadata Editor — so I’m grateful the app existed, and allowed me to test out its full functionality for the duration of its trial — and didn’t limit me to only updating a dozen photos or whatever that order paid apps will often do during trials.
At about the same time of writing my review, I also reached out directly to the developer (via email) — and the developer quickly responded after spending a few hours of investigating my reported issue. The developer explained that when this App edits a photo, iOS creates a hidden folder where temporary copies of each one are stored — and since I’d edited over 1000 (and maybe half as many more while first figuring out the app and what I specifically needed it to do) that cache had grown rather large — to nearly 5gb.
The developer went on to explain that normally iOS would in time, on its own, clear that cache (presumably whenever a lack of existing free space would otherwise effect other apps or iOS’s normal functioning; or after a given amount of time if the former didn’t happen first).
But the developer also agreed with me the this process could both be explained and handled better; and committed to updating their app to do both — and in less than a week since I first reported my issue, they have accomplished this — even when counting the inevitable delay between when a developer submits an update and when Apple pushes that update to the public.
The app now both explains that it may consume a significant amount of disk space during heavy use, and offers the user the ability to manually clear that cache at any time.
Quite extraordinary.
Many thanks to the developer for not only responding, but taking positive action — and I wish them the best of success with this app and all other endeavors they choose to pursue.
(*) I required this app because of a peculiar issue I was having keeping photos organized in the order I arranged them on my iPhone and iPad; which I frustratingly could not find any solution for within Apple’s software alone.
First: Apple allows users to add selected photos from your overall library to specific folders (“albums”) their users may create, and allows users to drag and drop those photos manually within the albums to display their photos in the exact order they prefer.
Second: Apple DOESN’T respect their users ‘custom order’ arrangement when they copy those photos (or a subset of those photos) to a new album.
Apple instead reorganizes those photos either oldest-first or newest-first based on the images metadata date tags (which might be the date the photo was taken or simply a date the photo was copied, reproduced, or recently accessed — it is a data field that is truly not helpful at all in a great many cases).
Third: I figured out that if I air-dropped my organized photos (selected from the album in which I’d organized them) from my iPhone to my iPad, the iPad would organize them in its “recents” folder by the date and time they were air-dropped — NOT by the date and time included in the photos’ metadata.
This gets them onto the iPad in order — but only in the recents folder. Copying the newly air-dropped files to their own album once again causes them to be disorganized from their custom sequence and reshuffled based on date & time of the metadata tag. Grrr!!
Fourth: Apple allows users to change the date and time of specific photos. But to change the date and time of multiple photos; Apple only permits displacing / shifting the date and time from what each tag says by whatever arbitrary duration the user requests. This does NOT solve the problem; as each photo will still sort chronologically, often based on bad data; and I DO NOT WANT MY CUSTOM ORGANIZED PHOTOS SORTED CHRONOLOGICALLY.
Fifth: It finally became clear the only solution was to delete the date and time from the photos’ metadata tags; to prevent Apple using them to rearrange my photos. But this is impossible; because Apple will always assign a date and time if missing. So here we come to Metadata Editor.
Sixth: with Metadata Editor I was able to set every manually organized photo to the exact same date and time: 12:00am, Jan 1, 1900.
Now copying the files from “Recents” to a new folder kept my photos in order — except backwards, because recents can only be arranged with new photos at the bottom. So I actually needed to airdrop the backwards organized albums back to my iPhone; and then create albums from the backwards recents that put the photos back in normal order again.
Tedious!!
But impossible without Metadata Editor — so I’m grateful the app existed, and allowed me to test out its full functionality for the duration of its trial — and didn’t limit me to only updating a dozen photos or whatever that order paid apps will often do during trials.
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Why is this app using so much storage?
I installed app two hours ago, and used it to reset the time and date on about a thousand images, without making copies. The app is currently using up nearly 5gb of space on my iPad. Why???
And why does the app not give me the option to view what’s using the space or deleting it? Why can it not be seen in files or photos app?
And why does the app not give me the option to view what’s using the space or deleting it? Why can it not be seen in files or photos app?
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It was free for 24 hours . Thanks
It was free for 24 hours . Thanks
Fake app
This absolutely does not remove photo meta data. I am canceling my subscription immediately.
Response from developer
Hello Amber, I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues with the app. Please be assured that the app is legitimate and capable of removing photo metadata. However, based on your message, it's unclear to me what specific problem you're encountering or why you are not seeing the metadata removed. Could you please contact me at metadataeditor_support@andrespiza.com? I'll be more than happy to assist you. In the meantime, feel free to cancel your subscription and request a refund from Apple. If you do so, once you get in touch, I'll extend your free trial period while we work together to resolve the issue. This way, you'll have the opportunity to fully test the app and confirm it works as expected. I apologize for the inconvenience and look forward to hearing from you soon.
Doesn’t work on videos
Doesn’t work on videos
Response from developer
Yes, videos are not supported at this time.
Has Potential
Seems to work well, the feature that would make this a must-have for me is if it had Siri Shortcuts integration to programmatically edit the fields. Crossing my fingers and keeping an eye on future updates.
Response from developer
Thanks for the review, and great idea! Could you send me a quick email to metadataeditor_support@andrespiza.com explaining in a bit more detail what you would like to see? Specifically, what do you need the Shortcut to do? Thanks again!
App review
The application doesn’t meet requirements
Response from developer
Sorry to hear that the app does not fit your needs. Could you send me an email to metadataeditor_support@andrespiza.com letting me know how could I improve the app for you? Thanks!
Has Potential
Seems to work well, the feature that would make this a must-have for me is if it had Siri Shortcuts integration. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Response from developer
Thanks for the review, and great idea! Could you send me a quick email to metadataeditor_support@andrespiza.com explaining in a bit more detail what you would like to see? Specifically, what do you need the Shortcut to do? Thanks again!
