Your Snapchat export comes back with every photo and video dated the day you downloaded it: no capture date, no place on the map, and every caption saved as a separate picture. This free tool puts all of that back into your files, entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
When you download your Snapchat data, you get your Memories as plain files. The only date they carry is the moment the export was created, so if you export today, every snap from the last several years shows today’s date. Import that into Google Photos or Apple Photos and your whole history collapses onto one day, with no map view and no captions.
Here’s the important part: the real information isn’t lost. It’s all there in your
export, in a list Snapchat includes called memories_history.json: the true date and time,
the location, and which caption belongs to which photo. It just isn’t inside the files
where your photo apps look for it. This tool reads that list and writes the date and location back into
the date and location your photo apps read from inside each photo and video.
If you haven’t exported yet, do this first. The one step people miss is the checkbox that actually includes your Memories: without it, your export contains only links, and no tool (this one included) can turn links into files.
In Snapchat (or on accounts.snapchat.com), go to Settings → My Data.
This is the step that includes the actual photos and videos. If you skip it, you only get links, and links can’t be fixed.
Snapchat prepares your export and emails you a download link, and this can take anywhere from a few minutes to a day. Large accounts arrive as several numbered zip parts.
Bring the zip (or all parts) back to this page. You can drop in every part at once: the list of dates and locations usually lives in the first part, and the media in the rest.
Google Photos, Apple Photos, and Amazon Photos all read the date and location from inside each photo and video. That’s exactly what this tool restores, so once you import the fixed folder, everything sorts onto the day it was taken and shows up on the map, no manual date-editing required.
A browser can’t change file dates directly on your disk, so instead you get a zip whose entries already carry the correct dates. When you extract it, your computer restores those file dates for you. Being honest about this matters: the dates written inside the files are the real fix, and the file dates are the bonus.
Snapchat splits every caption and sticker off into a separate see-through image saved next to the base photo. By default this tool keeps those caption images right alongside your photos, so nothing is lost and your original photos and videos keep their original quality.
If you’d rather see the caption back on the picture, turn on “Merge captions onto photos” and the tool merges the caption onto the photo for you. That option re-saves only the photos that have a caption; leave it off and every photo’s original file is passed through untouched.
If your download opened and there were no photos or videos inside (just a list), then the box to “Include your Memories” wasn’t ticked when the export was requested. Those are time-limited links on Snapchat’s own servers, and browsers don’t allow websites to download from Snapchat’s links for you. This tool will never pretend to. The fix is simple: request your data again with that box ticked, and the real files come with it.