How Do I Fix Dates on WhatsApp Videos?
WhatsApp strips metadata from videos as well as photos. Here is what survives.
WhatsApp removes metadata from everything it sends, videos included. The file you receive has no capture date and no location, only the moment it arrived on your phone.
There is one clue left: WhatsApp names files with the date they were sent, like VID-20240715-WA0003.mp4. That is not always the date it was filmed, but for videos shared soon after recording it is close.
Takeout JSON Metadata Fixer can set a date for a whole folder at once, which is the realistic fix for media where nothing survived. It handles videos alongside photos in the same run.