Geotag on photos not working since iOS 14 upgrade.

I updated both our phones and iPads to 14.2. Geotags are back. Hooray.

You can’t leave feedback in that form because it doesn’t support iOs and PadOs 14. I called Apple yesterday and they told me that is a bug, I have the practice case open. They will call me back again the next monday. There is no fix at the moment.

It does not seem to be a problem of the geo tagging. The iPhone is tagging the photos correctly with GPS or it would not be able to show the location map below the photos , when we view them enlarged and look in the details section below the enlarged photo. why seems to be missing is the name of the location in the title. The names of the location are retrieved from Apple's servers and the problem seems to be with these servers. It is suspicious, that only the location names for new photos are missing, that have not been taken at home. Photos can show the location names of previously scanned photos, where it already has looked up the locations one time ago, and it can show the Home location. Only the names of the new places are missing, where the access to Apple's servers is needed.

I’m in the UK as well and noticed this when I downloaded iOS 14 and it stayed the same with iOS 14.0.1. My phone will tag home but nowhere else. A couple of times it’s tagged my workplace but the tag disappeared pretty quickly after.

I talked to Apple last week, they put me through to an engineer who said they have had reports of the issue and advised to pay attention to upcoming updates.

I was excited when 14.1 came but alas, still waiting for the photo tag issue to be resolved. 😔

I have just updated to iOS 14.2. My location geotags have appeared but I agree with others that for the missing locations which have been restored, they are not as precise eg. in 2019 Houghton Hall in Norfolk (UK) appears as Houghton whereas from last week it appears simply as Norfolk. Hopefully new geotags going forwards will be as detailed as they used to be. Not tested yet!!!

I think the problem has been resolved. Just downloaded iOS 14.2 and photos now have locations at top of each picture although the photos taken immiediately after iOS 14.0 was downloaded only have the country they were taken in at the top. Hopefully that will change?

Mine is not showing in the top of photo but when swiping up shows the mapping and address of where you took it

My photos taken with iOs 14.0/14.0.1 and iOs 14.1 now show the right geotag from iOs 14.2. No problem, all solved amd fixed.

I’m having the same issue as well with iOS 14 and iOS 14.0.1. The location name does not populate above the photo, but the location data is being captured correctly. Interestingly, the same photos seen in Mac OS show the location name in the top as per normal.

this is o

I called Apple support, took quite a while to get an answer but in the end I was told Apple had changed this feature and that it’s not a bug......... he indicated that if enough people complain about it Apple may change it back..... so spread the word...... It was such a useful and simple feature, I don’t understand why anyone would think it had to be removed/changed!!

On Friday I wrote to Apple Support on Twitter and I just got this "Unfortunately our software engineers haven’t advised us as to why this feature is currently unavailable in iOS 14, just that they are aware of it missing and working to resolve it in a future software update at some point." And obviosly it will be resolved with 14.2

I sent a DM via twitter to @AppleSupport with my case number (ref number assigned to me after speaking with Apple in Ireland).

Their reply confirmed that they had received numerous unhappy enquiries on this issue & that it was 'under review'...mmmm.

The only thing we can do is to bombard apple with DM's via twitter, fill in feedback forms weekly, put tweets in the public domain...I don't know if apple monitor this website but if they do & see the level of annoyance, then maybe they'll take note & action.

There is an answer ffs - Missing location on photos

Recent Similar Reports:More than 10

Resolution:Potential fix identified - For a future OS update

So for 1000th time - its a BUG not a removed feature

iOS 14.2 just arrived in the UK....not installed it yet, although someone has confirmed it has resolved the issue (I did read the list of bug fixes and it didn't list this specific issue).

I may just wait until a few more people have confirmed the issue is resolved!!

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