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iPhone 12 Pro Still no geotagging for photos
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What do you mean? Your photos dont show the location they were taken? Maybe you have Location Services disabled for the Camera app
There’s definitely some sort of bug going on. When scrolling through photos on the iPhone, the geotagging above each photo shows properly on all photos until September 16, which coincidentally was also the day I installed the just released iOS 14.
Of the hundreds of photos taken since then, maybe no more than half a dozen have a tag but only for Home and it’s random as to why just a few. I know the data is there because the Photos app on my iMac and MacBook Pro show everything correctly, so it’s likely a bug related to iOS 14.
Of the hundreds of photos taken since then, maybe no more than half a dozen have a tag but only for Home and it’s random as to why just a few. I know the data is there because the Photos app on my iMac and MacBook Pro show everything correctly, so it’s likely a bug related to iOS 14.
I haven’t seen an issue with photos taken from my iPhone X or my 12 Pro. All have geotags away or home
My map is working fine when you look at places. Zooming in and out of locations shows the places of photos I've taken, the issue is when you look at your individual photos, up at the top you are supposed to see the geotag. Since updating to iOS 14, photos just show the date and time. So the GPS data is correctly embedded in each photo, and the places maps show them, but looking at your library of individual photos does not show the tag at the top.
My pictures have “Home” and time stamp. I have not taken pictures outside of the house yet.
Looks like this issue has been resolved in the iOS 14.2 update that came out today. All my photos taken since day one install of iOS 14 now show the geotags properly within the Photos app.
Supposedly there were some changes related to this sort of thing in iOS 14.2, based on another thread:
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Not all photos in "All Photos" showing location information
Hi all - strange one here. All my photos are being geotagged because if I swipe up, I can see exactly where the photo was taken on the map, but above the photo where it usually shows the location name ("Times Square", for example), its just showing the date/time. There seems to be no consistency...
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I have an interesting situation. Using the new Apple RAW format I have no geo-tags. Yet using ProCamera and their DNG format does give me geo-tags.
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I only get geo-tags with the 3rd party app in raw
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further investigation reveals that after the 14.3 update the geotagging feature stopped working with the default camera; so perhaps the 14.4 update will fix this?
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I only get geo-tags with the 3rd party app in raw
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further investigation reveals that after the 14.3 update the geotagging feature stopped working with the default camera; so perhaps the 14.4 update will fix this?
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So, after the most recent iOs update, nothing appears to have changed. HOWEVER! I overzealously turned off a bunch of location settings on my Phone a while back. I noticed that the camera was included in this. I have now turned location settings back on to 'allow while using app' and everything works again.
dooh!
*facepalm*
dooh!
*facepalm*
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