The SnapRescue blog
Straight, jargon-free guides to getting your Memories out of Snapchat with their real dates and locations, and into wherever you actually keep your photos.
Snapchat now caps free storage at 5GB and starts deleting anything over the limit on September 1, 2026. Here is what is happening, who is affected, and exactly what to do about it.
Read the guide → The problemYou downloaded your Memories and every photo says it was taken today. Here is why that happens, and how the hidden metadata file fixes it.
Read → How-toThe full step-by-step for requesting your data the right way, including the one setting people miss and what the ZIP files actually contain.
Read → How-toGet your snaps onto your phone's timeline on the right day, in the right place on the map, instead of all dumped on today.
Read → Self-hostedFor the self-hosters: how to get dates, GPS and captions embedded so Immich reads them on import, with optional XMP sidecars for external libraries.
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