Why are my Snapchat Memories dated today?
Snapchat's export doesn't save the date a memory was taken inside the photo file, so your photo app uses the day you downloaded it instead. The real date and time are still in your export, in a list Snapchat includes, and can be written back into every file.
Step by step
- Request your export from Snapchat Follow our export guide. The list of your memories comes with the export.
- Add the files Snapchat sent you to BackupMemories Upload them as they are, without unzipping. We match each photo and video to its entry in Snapchat's list.
- Save the fixed files to your photo app Every memory now carries the date and local time it was taken, so it appears in the right place in your timeline.
Why the dates are wrong
When you save Snapchat’s export to your phone or computer, your photo app looks inside each file for the date it was taken. In exports we’ve checked (October 2026):
- Photos carry no date at all. With nothing to go on, your photo app uses the day you downloaded or imported them, which is why years of memories suddenly look like they were all taken today.
- Videos do carry a date, but it often isn’t when you recorded them. It can be off by seconds or by many hours.
The file names start with a date (for example 2021-07-14_…), but that’s the date in UTC rather than your local time, and photo apps ignore file names anyway.
Where the right date is
Snapchat includes a list of your memories in the export (memories_history.json, and the same list as a web page, memories_history.html). It has the exact date and time of every memory, and its location when there is one.
How BackupMemories fixes it
We match every photo and video to its entry in that list and write the date into the file itself, where Google Photos, iPhone Photos and other apps look for it. The time is converted to the local time where the memory was taken, using its location. For memories without a location, we use the time zone you choose before uploading (your device’s, unless you change it).