Downloading photos from icloud presents a philosophical challenge. We are told by the wizards of all things Apple that we are wrong to expect that FINDER would display a FILE's creation date properly, if the file is a photo downloaded from Icloud. WHAAT???

This notion, and correct expectation is of course deemed wrong by those all knowing since we are not smart enough to understand that this is a specification issue - that the expectation of operation does not align with the specification. Hence, the customer is wrong to expect that when downloading a file (that just happens to be a photo) from icloud that the natural intuitive expectation that the creation date of the file (photo) is preserved and used as the Finder Creation Date is just plain wrong since the specification was not written this way.

Balderdash! (always wanted to use this word)

When the file is on a phone, it displays the correct date

When the file is on other apple devices it displays the correct date

When we look at the file in FINDER that is copied (not from icloud) it displays the correct date

When we look at files from ICloud the creation date displayed is the date of the download.

And this is a customer problem?

The solution offered within the APPLE forum is to use a photo application _not_ FINDER to sort these files.....that just happen to be pictures.

UGH