Geotag on photos not working since iOS 14 upgrade.

I have upgraded to 14.3 on my iPhone 7 (my lab rat) and whereas the geotags were almost instant in the previous version (14.2), in 14.3 it takes almost 24 hours for them to appear. There is clearly still inconsistencies with this feature.

The 14.2 update fixed geo locations for new photo taken after installing it and most of the photo taken before installing it. However, I still have a lot of old photos taken before 14.2 showing either wrong location (hundreds of km away) or just showing country. I updated to 14.3, it stopped showing location of new photos again so I had to downgrade to 14.2 and wait for future update to resolve it. Frustrated

For me, 14.2 fixed majority of geotag problems - but still had many old photos (taken before ios 14) showing wrong locations or just showing country. Then I upgraded to 14.3 and new photos taken after that showed only time and date again, so I had to downgrade to 14.2 and am waiting for future update that would fix this nasty bug

When you update to IOS 14.3, your Photolibrary will be curated. Therefore you need WIFI, your device must be connected to power and locked. When curation is ready (need sometimes many hours) your locations are added.

Yes, my device was connected to power and remained locked for over 24hrs. The entire library has been curated, all photos have locations added - but the problem is many photos just got either wrong location or the location is too generic (country, instead of city or county where they were taken)

I just got my new iphone 11 from 5s and yes all the places are gone. I use photos most on my phone and the one feature I liked best is gone. If it wasn't for the space m 5s only had 16 gb i would not have bought a new phone. Disappointing. When I called apple the tech support said 11 just doesn't "offer" it anymore. Did not say many other users had same issue and disappointment.

Folks on her said the downgraded to a previous upgrade. How do you do that once it automatically installs the upgrade? I am lo tech.

Same problems! Geotagging is inconsistently accurate. Once it just named my country and often names the nearest big town. Today it tagged half my photos with titles and the rest are just reading above the picture « Today ». Apple sort this out. You claim so much for your expensive phones but this aspect is not sorted at the moment.

iOS 14.3 is actually more messed up than 14.2 as far as the geotag feature is concerned.

How does one downgrade back to the previous iOS?

Has the problem been solved yet? Or is it still acting up? I was thinking about upgrading today but in the middle of installation I turned my phone off bc I remember this was still an issue.

So I now have the iPhone 12 Pro Max and the issue isn’t AS bad but frequently some photos that are not geotagged take DAYS to get a geotag. It’s annoying AF and Apple really needs to address this issue with some sort of urgency!

No, I'm on iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3 and the problem is still there. Don't upgrade. I wish i could go back to the good old 13

Ayt since no one is talking about it now. iOS 14.2 did bring it back but the accuracy was far less accurate. Plus when you took several pics in different places in a single day, you ended up getting the same inaccurate geotag.

updated to iOS 14.4 and the geotagging ain’t working again quite often.

APPLE PLEASE BRING BACK THE IOS 12 PHOTOS APP IM SO TIRED OF THE NEW DESIGN ITS TRASH, ITS HELLA NOT USER FRIENDLY ON IPADOS TOO. I AM TIRED OF UPDATING ANY APPLE SOFTWARE FR.

You are very right. iOS 12 Photo App is what we paid for! Not this updated crap

Yup. I was referring to iPadOS 12😂 that was a typo. I was using my iPhone 7 Plus that time and I skipped both iOS 11 and iOS 12 lol

anyway iOS 13.3 was the best on my current 11 Pro Max and I’ll wait for a better iOS and never update it again. I’m tired of all its bs. Plus I actually won’t use almost any of its new functions lol I just feel like all these updates are just making my iPhone more and more like a piece of crap

P.S. my iPhone 6s Plus is still running iOS 10 super smoothly and all apps seem fine still.

Yeah guys, I left my phone overnight to charge and it automatically updated, I was so angry when found out. Sure enough, the bugs are back.

this photo was taken at my college dorm. I am 46 minutes away from my actual house, yet it tags the location as “Home”. It’s really annoying because 14.2 had the issue fixed, it seems like every update it comes back.