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Just an iPhone with photos in your camera roll. When you first launch TimeStamp!, you'll be asked to grant Photos access — this is required for the game to generate rounds from your library.

You'll also be prompted to connect with Apple Game Center for leaderboards, but this is optional. You can play in Practice Mode without it.

Each round has three stages — year, month, and day. Points are awarded at each stage based on accuracy:

A perfect round scores 80 points. Your total across all rounds is your final score for that session.

You can't skip a stage — you must make a guess to proceed to the next one. However, if your year guess is far off, you may score 0 on that stage before moving to the month. Your overall score still continues.

Photos are selected randomly from your camera roll. TimeStamp! reads the EXIF metadata (the date/time your camera recorded when the photo was taken) to determine the correct answer — it does not use the date the photo was added to your library or edited.

Photos without valid date metadata may be excluded from gameplay.

Photos may be excluded if they:

• Don't have a valid capture date in their metadata (e.g. screenshots, images downloaded from the web)
• Were added to your library without original timestamp data
• Are in formats not supported by the game

Only photos with a genuine capture timestamp are eligible for gameplay to keep scoring fair.

A new Daily Challenge drops every day at midnight in your local time zone. You get one attempt per day — once you've completed or started the challenge, you can't replay it until the next one drops.

The one-attempt limit keeps the leaderboard fair. Since everyone is guessing from their own photos, there's no shared puzzle — but the single-shot format creates stakes and makes your score meaningful.

Leaderboards are powered by Apple Game Center. After completing the Daily Challenge, your score is submitted automatically if you're signed into Game Center. You can view global rankings and compare scores with your friends list.

To see friend rankings, make sure both you and your friends are connected to Game Center and have each other as friends in the Game Center app.

Tap Party Mode from the home screen and choose Create Room. You'll get a 4-character room code (like XK47) — share this with your friends. They tap Join Room, enter the code, and they're in. Once everyone has joined, the host starts the game.

All players need the TimeStamp! app installed and Photos access granted on their own device.

Party Mode supports up to 10 players per session, across 7 rounds. Each round shows a photo from one player's library — everyone guesses the year simultaneously from the same multiple-choice options.

In Party Mode, the year choices are presented as colored buttons (red, blue, purple, orange) rather than a text list — this makes it easy to see at a glance who chose which answer. Each color corresponds to a year option, and you'll see which players picked which color before the answer is revealed.

If a player loses connection during a session, the game continues for all other players. The disconnected player may be able to rejoin using the same room code if the session is still active. If the host disconnects, the session will end for all players.

For the best experience, make sure all players have a stable internet connection before starting.

No. TimeStamp! reads photo metadata (the capture date) directly on your device. Your actual photos are never uploaded to our servers. In Party Mode, photos are displayed locally — only the timestamp data is used to verify answers.

This is a core design decision and a meaningful difference from apps like Photo Roulette, which upload images to shared servers.

Photos access is required to read the capture dates of your photos — that's what generates the gameplay. Without it, the game has nothing to work with. We request the minimum level of access needed and do not access, copy, or transmit your images.

Go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos → TimeStamp! and change the permission to None. Note that revoking access will prevent the game from functioning.

You can limit Photos access to specific albums by choosing "Selected Photos" when granting permission. Only photos in your selected albums will be eligible for gameplay. You can adjust this at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos → TimeStamp!

You can play Practice Mode without any account. For Daily Challenge leaderboards and Party Mode, you'll need to be signed into Apple Game Center — which most iPhones already have active. No separate TimeStamp! account is required.

Visit our Data Deletion page for full instructions. In short: email support@timestampgame.com with the subject line "Data Deletion Request" and we'll process your request within 30 days.

Email support@timestampgame.com with the following details:

• Your device model (e.g. iPhone 15 Pro)
• Your iOS version (Settings → General → About)
• The game mode where the bug occurred
• Steps to reproduce the issue
• A screenshot or screen recording if possible

Bug reports are incredibly helpful and we review every one.

Search for TimeStamp! in the App Store, scroll to the Ratings & Reviews section, and tap Write a Review. Reviews help other players discover the app and mean a lot to us as an indie developer — thank you!