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Xiaomi: Add a Time Stamp to Photos

Photos taken with your Xiaomi phone often show no date or time, making it hard to prove exactly when a picture was captured. This is controlled by the Watermark option inside the Camera app, which stays off by default on most MIUI devices. Without it enabled, every shot leaves the gallery without any timestamp overlay.

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Add a Time Stamp to Photos auf Xiaomi

Xiaomi's camera app hides the timestamp overlay by default, so most photos leave the gallery without any visible date or time. The setting responsible for this lives inside the camera's own menu, not in the general system settings, which is why many people miss it.

Open CameraMenuSettingsWatermark and enable Add time stamp on photos. MIUI then prints the current date and time in the lower right corner of every picture you take afterward, based on the time your phone had set at the moment of capture.

The stamp only applies going forward. Photos already stored in the gallery keep their original state, and turning the option off later removes the overlay for new shots only, without touching existing files.

A timestamp helps document repairs, deliveries, or inspections where proof of date matters. For everyday photography, many people leave it disabled, since the overlay becomes a permanent part of the image and cannot be removed afterward without cropping or editing the photo.

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No. The stamp is printed directly onto the pixels when Add time stamp on photos is active, so it becomes part of the image file. You would need to crop or edit the photo to remove it.