iOS: How do you find the creation date of a file?

This code actually returns the good creation date to me:

NSFileManager* fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];NSDictionary* attrs = [fm attributesOfItemAtPath:path error:nil];if (attrs != nil) {    NSDate *date = (NSDate*)[attrs objectForKey: NSFileCreationDate];    NSLog(@"Date Created: %@", [date description]);} else {    NSLog(@"Not found");}

Are you creating the file inside the App? Maybe that's where the problem is.

There is a special message fileCreationDate for that in NSDictionary. The following works for me:

Objective-C:

NSDate *date = [attrs fileCreationDate];

Swift:

let attrs = try NSFileManager.defaultManager().attributesOfItemAtPath(path) as NSDictionaryattrs.fileCreationDate()

Updated answer for Swift 4 to pull out the modified (.modifiedDate) or creation (.creationDate) date:

let file: URL = ...if let attributes = try? FileManager.default.attributesOfItem(atPath: file.path) as [FileAttributeKey: Any],    let creationDate = attributes[FileAttributeKey.creationDate] as? Date {    print(creationDate)    }

1. Using a file that you provide in advance via a URL, it will request its attributes. If successful a dictionary of [FileAttributeKey: Any] is returned
2. Using the dictionary from step 1, it then pulls out the creation date (or modified if you prefer) and using the conditional unwrap, assigns it to a date if successful
3. Assuming the first two steps are successful, you now have a date that you can work with