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how to remove date from canon powershot elph 360

You can’t delete the date stamp once it’s on the image, but you can stop it from being added in the future by turning off the Date Stamp setting on your Canon PowerShot ELPH 360 HS. For pictures that already have the date burned into them, you must use photo editing software to remove it.

How to stop the date from appearing on new photos

On the ELPH 360 HS, the date stamp is a shooting menu option, not a print-only feature. To turn it off:

  1. Turn the camera on and make sure the mode switch is set to a shooting mode (not Playback).
  2. Press the MENU button.
  3. Go to the Shooting tab (usually marked with a camera icon).
  4. Scroll to Date Stamp.
  5. Use the directional buttons to change it from Date or Date & Time to Off.
  6. Press MENU again to confirm and exit.

After this, newly taken photos will no longer show a visible date/time stamp on the image. The actual shooting date is still saved in the file’s Exif metadata, but it won’t be painted onto the picture.

Note: Once the camera writes the date as part of the image, Canon states that “dates and times recorded with [Date Stamp] cannot be deleted” from the image data.

What to do if photos already have the date on them

If you already have images with the date stamp burned in:

  • The date is part of the image , not a separate layer.
  • You cannot remove it using the camera’s menus.
  • You must use photo editing software to erase it.

Common options:

  1. Crop the image
    If the date is near the edge, simply crop a bit off that side. This is quick and works well for many photos, but you lose some of the picture.

  2. Clone / content-aware removal
    Use tools like:

    • Photoshop (Content-Aware Fill, Clone tool)
    • GIMP (free, with Clone or Resynthesizer plugins)
    • Online AI cleaners (e.g., Picwand, RemoveObject, etc.) These tools let you “paint over” the date and reconstruct the background, often with good results if the area behind the date is simple (sky, wall, plain background).

  1. Print-time date stamp vs image date stamp
    Sometimes people accidentally enable a date stamp in the print menu instead of the shooting menu. If the date only shows up when printing (not on the screen or in the file when viewed on a computer), check:

    • The camera’s Print Settings menu (often under “Direct Print” or “Card Print”).
    • Any printing software you use (Photoshop, Canon ZoomBrowser, etc.) and make sure “Print Date” is turned off.

Quick checklist

  • Turn off Date Stamp in the Shooting menu to stop new photos from having it.
  • [] For old photos: crop or use editing software to remove the stamped date.
  • [] If the date only appears on prints, check print settings in the camera and your printing software.

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