Q: Why can't I add a location to a photo in the new Photos app?  Apple appears to have taken away a feature without asking.

BreeZaneMom wrote:

 

Yeah....who cares about the people using their product?  As long as it works for Apple, the consumer is obviously not important.

There is an underlying trend I'm afraid....ultimately they may turn out to be correct, but many of us still feel the customer is generally right and knows what they want....

Terence Devlin wrote:

 

Heavens aren't you cynical.   They're not screwing the iPhone users, are they?

I wonder how many people disable location services embedding GPS data in Photos for privacy reasons (not many I suspect) but who subsequently used to manually tag highly selected photos in iPhoto.

For example, you might not be bothered about GPS data when on holiday stood outside a famous monument with dozens of other tourists, but you may be reluctant to have GPS data automatically attached to photos when at your own residence or nearby.

In addition to the customer is right, I would add that the phone is often wrong.

If I take a picture at the back of my house, it thinks I am at my neighbors. So if at the same event I take pictures in two different rooms, it thinks I'm in two different houses. Also, if a location isn't in Apple's database, it just gets an address or nothing instead of a name, which makes it difficult to group related photos together.

This also doesn't address the issue of importing photos from Facebook, other users or scanners.

I wouldn't mind except that organizing photos was the one thing that all my other applications depend on this program to do.

Location is also central to how the Photos app organizes and displays the photos. It has an ability to edit the date and time so why not location? If they want us to use tags or something along those lines it shouldn't be central to the program.

Robert

iPhone doesn't get geo data right all the time, so how are we to fix it?!!

Read my post on this

GeoLocation info editing

It is important that you send feedback to Apple - they may ignore it, but if enough people raise particular concerns that is the best way to convince them to add new or lost features back:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Take your pick of the links.....

I agree with you - very important to speak up!

Although on a side note, it doesn't look like Apple is very interested in our feedback - I saw two links for iPhoto but not Photos.

Could be a case of hands over their ears? I mean, the programmers must know about these concerns.

Robert