Geotag on photos not working since iOS 14 upgrade.

The geotagging is being inaccurate since iOS 14.2. Whenever you have taken multiple pics in various locations, the iOS will choose the one location you took pics the most and mark basically all the pics u took in the single day with that location. But when you scroll up it gives u the correct address.

Btw I changed my region yesterday and then all the geotagging disappeared and I’ve no way to bring it back

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I disagree. I believe the issue can be solved again if we get enough people talking about this, the main issue is that many people don’t know about it. It’s kinda unacceptable because new updates are supposed to resolve issues, not bring new ones? I don’t know what they did but the photos app was working perfectly fine before I.O.S 14. It can’t be that hard for them to fix whatever is going on.

Idk. People’s loyalty to Apple and Apple’s attitude toward bugs... ion feel they’re gonn fix them anytime soon. Can’t care more or I will feel even worse. Tbh I’m suffering from another bug since iOS 13 too juz I did search the internet and no one had even mentioned that so I juz left alone and accepted the fate.

Which bug is it? You could try starting a thread and see if someone replies, you never know. :)

Well I tried before but it didn’t get any upvote. And cause I’m a bilingual so I have to type both Chinese and English. Then I use the “stroke” typing method to type Chinese characters but then it always deletes some strokes for me before I’ve picked the right word even I’ve typed them.

I mean I type Chinese only when talking to my parents and relatives so it doesn’t bother me too much. Just when it happens it does frustrate me a lil bit.

Hi Jason I just went to an Apple Store today and I found that their display iPhone 12 Pro has the same problem. None of the pic has a geotagging on it. The staff standing right next to me told me that’s a bug and they know it. Not sure when will it be fixed tho.

6 months later and this bug is still not fixed in iOS 14.4.2, yet geotags are display correctly in older versions of iOS on a different device.

Not sure if they will even fix it in iOS 15. Perhaps depending on they will develop iOS 15 from ground up or they will base it on iOS 14, if the latter is the case then this problem may persist

I have no idea what iPhones you are using, but everything is fine for me since 14.2 first with XS Max and now with iPhone 12. I have proper location on every photo even i made it in small village or other remote location.

Same problem for me. It appears suddenly when I was on holidays.

one day, it works fine, and the day after, I got the problem.

So for me it is not due to an update but it is a problem on the photo store in iCloud.

on my Mac, I change the location and after I restore the default location and the good location appears but the day after it disappeared again.

Very sad with this issue, and no solution.

Today I synchronized my photo library on an iPad with iOS 12.x, and all the information are good even those that are incorrect on iOS 14.

very strange...

hello Apple team, is this bug fixed already? My phone is still 13.6 version but my geotag stop working since 2019, i thought this will be fixed already.

I am now on iOS 14.4.2 using a iPhone 12 Pro Max and my geotags are really periodic. Interesting note, every photo captures a location, but for some unknown reason the iPhone will not convert it to a geotag. It is missing the location details that is just below the location map. The only way I have found to force the iPhone to convert the missing location data is to plug it into power in the locked position and literally wait about 90-120 minutes and eventually the missing data appears along with a geotag.

Needless to say this is ultra annoying. Steps I have done to try to remedy this is to reset location and privacy settings, reset network settings and at last resort, reset all settings of which none do anything to force the iPhone to produce the missing location data and is supposed to appear under the location map.

Apple really needs to address this! This whole mess started immediately upon the iOS 14 upgrade when I had a iPhone 11 Pro Max and still is happening with a new iPhone 12 Pro Max. What are you going to do about this, Apple??

I had the exactly the same issue and I fixed it by resetting location and privacy settings (go to Settings-General-Reset).

After that, I opened the Camera app and it asked for the location permission and location is now set

The issue remains in iOS 14.4.2 so y’all dun have to update it cause it will only bring u battery drain with no other improvement.

Y’all Apple won’t fix any problem other than adding battery drain issues. To avoid further trashing your iPhone I think stop updating is the best way out. I mean I dun really use almost all its so-called new functions. Sacrificing the speed, battery and stuff juz for functions that i will never use is definitely not worth it.

idk y my stupid finger chose to download the iOS 14.4.2 (was at iOS 14.2) and now the battery drains real fast every day. Seeking help at the Apple store or the Genius Bar is useless cause they’ll say try to factory restore everything but in fact it won’t help.