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PhotoTime
Fortune’s firsthand reporting confirms that PhotoTime had been shut down.
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A smart photo-management app that used image and facial recognition to automatically tag, organize and search photographs across an iPhone, social accounts and cloud services.
- Operator at shutdown
- Orbeus, Inc. Company source
- Launched
- 13 Nov 2014Launch source
- Discontinued
- 4 Apr 2019Confirmed closed by this observation; actual cutoff unconfirmedClosure source
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Fortune’s firsthand reporting confirms that PhotoTime had been shut down.
Fortune — firsthand Orbeus employee interview confirming PhotoTime closure ↗ · Checked 9 Oct 2026
Sources and verification
- Shutdown
- The displayed April 4, 2019 date is an inferred observation proxy: it is the publication day shown by Fortune China for reporting based on a direct interview with a longtime Orbeus employee, confirming that PhotoTime had already closed. The employee is unnamed because of confidentiality restrictions. This is not a verified actual cutoff or original announcement day; the cutoff hour and time zone remain unknown. The separate acquisition date is not used as the closure date. Scope is the entire independently named PhotoTime application, not the separate Rekognition API. The original application site and Orbeus launch release establish its identity, direct App Store entry, automated image/facial recognition and complete photo organization/search task. The original footer identifies Orbeus, Inc.; an announcement dateline is not used to infer its headquarters or coordinates. San Francisco is retained only as the historical company-location attribution explicitly given in the firsthand Fortune report, not as a current or cutoff-day office. Closure source
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- Verified 9 Oct 2026
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- Launch
- November 13, 2014 is the public iPhone app launch day in the original Orbeus announcement, which introduces the new free PhotoTime app as available in the App Store. This is separate from the later company acquisition and the closure-report proxy.
- Location
- United States · San Francisco. Fortune’s direct reporting describes Orbeus as a San Francisco-based startup when it was acquired in 2016. This is a historical company-location attribution, not proof of a cutoff-day office, headquarters address or hosting location; no coordinates are inferred. Location source