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Geotagging not working in photo app on iPhone?

I just bought the iPhone 4 and took a few pictures that were geotagged in the right location. Perfect. But ever since I recorded a video (which got tagged too) the pictures I've taken since haven't been tagged in places... What am I doing wrong? Is there a place I can check the settings?????

iPhone 4, iOS 4, Photo geotagging

Posted on Jun 28, 2010 2:38 PM

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Posted on Jul 15, 2010 8:45 AM

Same here. I reset location warnings. Back into the camera app, it asked me for permission, I said yes you can geotag my photos. Took a photo. Not showing up on the places screen.

Do you need to sync back to iTunes to enable the places?
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Jul 15, 2010 4:17 PM in response to kimey

I got mine to show up in Places by re-syncing. It also cleared them up as they had been fuzzy & pixilated before the sync.
However, I'm really disappointed that the exif data doesn't contain the location information. I use to use my phone for scouting locations, but somewhere along the line the software was changed so it's no longer in the EXIF data. It WAS nice to be able to open the image in Lightroom and know where the image was made. Why did this feature disappear?

Aug 21, 2010 2:05 PM in response to Chrislightyear

The answer to this is simply. Since iOS4.0 enables multitasking and app switching, geolocation info of a photo is cached in a freezed state when you exit the camera app. It therefore can't update the geolocation database in the Photo app. Thus in order for everything to work properly, make sure that you kill BOTH the Photo and Camera app when you exit the Camera app, by double clicking on the Home button to enter the multitasking bar. Then tap and hold any app icon until they jiggles THEN KILL BOTH THE CAMERA AND PHOTO APPS.

Exit the multitasking bar and relaunch Photo app and your new photo will be updated in the Places category.

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