Memories Dated

Export your Snapchat Memories with the right dates

The complete guide, from the export request to the import into your photo library. Allow up to a week of waiting, and an hour of work.

1. Request the export

  1. Open Snapchat, tap your profile, then the Settings gear.
  2. Scroll to My Data. You can also do it from a computer at accounts.snapchat.com, “My Data”.
  3. Tick “Export your Memories”. Also tick “Export JSON files”: without that file, nobody can recover the dates.
  4. Date range: “All time”. Submit.

Common trap: “saving” a snap to your phone's camera roll is not an export. Only the request in “My Data” gives the full archive with dates.

2. Wait, then download quickly

3. Put the dates and locations back

In the archive, every photo carries the download date. The real capture date, and the location when Snapchat recorded one, sit in a separate file, memories_history.json. Our tool reads that file, matches every photo and video, and writes the date and location into them, in the format Google Photos and Apple Photos understand. Captions and drawings you added are merged back onto the photos. Everything happens on your computer: your photos are never uploaded.

4. Import into your library

5. Check before deleting anything

Keep the original archive until you have checked a few old photos in your library. The report included in the folder says, for each file, whether the date was recovered to the second or only to the day.

Frequently asked

The export is empty or incomplete

It happens, especially on large accounts. Request again; the content can differ between requests. “My Eyes Only” Memories are not included.

My videos come in several pieces

Snapchat splits long videos into segments. The Windows app joins them, and so does the online version in Chrome or Edge; in other browsers, the online version dates them without joining them.

The times look shifted

Snapchat stores universal time. The tool converts to the time zone you choose, by default your computer's.

Sources

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