Map view in Photos broken (index-grid view button gone)!

[gregconquest]

When I use the Maps view option in Photos, it shows numerous collections of photos for an area, but there is now no way to view all the photos for the selected area.

There used to be a grid button in the corner of the map that would display all photos from an area, ordered by date taken. As GPS and location services do not give an exact location, and the location can vary quite a bit if you're indoors, among tall buildings, and using the camera on a Wi-Fi-only iPad, seeing photos within a few hundred meters is often important.

BUT I HAVE DOZENS OF LITTLE PHOTO STACKS FOR EACH LOCATION! There's no longer any way I can see them all. I can't systematically check every little random photo stack in an area.

Does no one else use Map view to find photos? I can't find any discussion of this. When I get a document from a work site, a menu from a restaurant, etc., I take a photo there. In the past, I could quickly find all photos associated with any place using the grid-in ndex sub-view of the Maps view in Photos regardless of the time the photo was taken. Now it's gone.

I've submitted a bug report on this (I'm on the Public Beta on my iPad ( FB17008178 (Photos map view is missing the index view button) ), but the same problem is on my regular-release iOS iPhone.)

 

[ignatius345]

When I use the Maps view option in Photos, it shows numerous collections of photos for an area, but there is now no way to view all the photos for the selected area.

There used to be a grid button in the corner of the map that would display all photos from an area, ordered by date taken. As GPS and location services do not give an exact location, and the location can vary quite a bit if you're indoors, among tall buildings, and using the camera on a Wi-Fi-only iPad, seeing photos within a few hundred meters is often important.

BUT I HAVE DOZENS OF LITTLE PHOTO STACKS FOR EACH LOCATION! There's no longer any way I can see them all. I can't systematically check every little random photo stack in an area.

Maybe I'm missing something, but in your second screenshot, why not just zoom out until those stacks merge into one stack, and then tap into that? (Or, zoom into an area to get them to split into smaller groups.) That's how I've always done it. In fact, I was not aware of the grid button at all until reading this. I've always just zoomed in and out until the area of each stack captures the area I'm looking for.

There's a limit to how far out you can zoom (as in your first screenshot of the whole west coast of the US), but I've never found I wanted to capture that large an area in the first place -- using your map as an example I'd be either looking for LA photos or Oregon coast photos or Puget Sound photos, not all combined.