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Don't drag an image from Photos. Use the File/Export process. That preserves the EXIF data. Bear in mind that there are several dates associated with image files. One is the date the image was taken, which is stored in EXIF and which, in my experience, is preserved in Photos and in the export process. Another the the file creation date, which is associated with the file itself, and not the image. It is the date the file was created in the system. So if you export an image from Photos, that new file will have today's date as a FILE, but the date taken in EXIF will still be whatever it was. There are other dates stored in the FILE metadata (date last opened, date last modified, etc), but NONE of them are EXIF data. If you want to see all the dates stored with file meta data, open Finder in List view and right click on the header bar where the titles of the column appear. You should see "Date Modified," "Date Created," "Date Last Opened," and "Date Added." None of them are EXIF, they are all associated with the FILE and are available to any file in the system. EXIF is the data related to the image itself, giving the time of the image being taken, the camera settings, location, etc.