when I enter a location for a picture, Photos changes it to a different location

Amazing! Brilliant! Thank you so much! Yeeppee!

For those who need to know (I didn't previously), you can add a script to the top menu bar with this: https://support.apple.com/guide/script-editor/access-scripts-using-the-script-menu-scpedt27975/

[EDIT] If any of you know of a more elegant / convenient way of installing & triggering the script, could you share?

I kinda improved your script to better suit my needs on 2 aspects:

• When selecting several photos in Photos, they will all be set to the same location (therefore asking for lat,long only once), matching the behaviour of the Information pane that we've known.
• Actually display an alert when there is no photo selected (required a try/catch when using the Scripts menu).

tell application "Photos"
	try
		set selectedImages to (get selection)
		if selectedImages is {} then
			error "Please select an image."
		end if
		set response to display dialog "New location:" default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button "OK" with icon note
		set newLocationString to text returned of response
		if ((button returned of response) = "OK") and (newLocationString is not "") then
			set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ","
			set theLocList to every text item of newLocationString
			repeat with theImage in selectedImages
				set the location of theImage to theLocList
			end repeat
			display alert "New location set to: " & newLocationString
		end if
	on error errorMsg number errorNumber
		display alert errorMsg buttons {"OK"}
	end try
end tell

Finally I found a stopgap workaround for this -- to use AppleScript like below:

tell application "Photos"
	set selectedImages to (get selection)
	if selectedImages is {} then
		error "Please select an image."
	end if
	repeat with theImage in selectedImages
		set title to the name of theImage
		if not (exists (title)) then
			set title to the filename of theImage
		end if
		set response to display dialog "Edit Location of " & title default answer "" buttons {"Don't Edit", "Edit"} default button "Edit" with icon note
		if (button returned of response) = "Edit" then
			set newLocationString to text returned of response
			if not newLocationString = "" then
				set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ","
				set theLocList to every text item of newLocationString
				set the location of theImage to theLocList
				display alert "New location of " & title & ": " & newLocationString
			end if
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

It appears that this bug was fixed with 11.2.2. You can now enter any lat and long. But now you can't add keywords to photos that don't already have keywords. Sigh...

Today I contacted the guys from 9to5Mac and they immediately reacted: https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/23/apple-photos-bug-prevents-precise-latitude-and-longitude-geotagging-of-images/

let’s hope for a fix, now as Apple might have a bit more attention on this...

bR Joachim

Hi, has any of you tried to call Apple Support https://getsupport.apple.com ?

This was in my plans, but I've already spent 1h45 on the phone with them today for another issue... to no avail, and I'm afraid my patience with Apple Support may have been depleted for another 6 months. Still, maybe worth a try wouldn't you think?

Still not working properly - but is vastly improved from when this first cropped up in October.

Then I couldn't even put in the locations of Greenwich Observatory in London without it putting the pin in the north sea. Now I've tried that (fine) and a number of offshore locations to the north east of the UK, and it seemed to get them fine.

However I've just tried the location in the screenshots in Chesapeake Bay, and you can see the result...

That is quite an error.

Hello,

I wrote myself an AppleScript app that works similar to the very nice script published here, but additionally writes the location information to the originals of the photos.

This is done by reading the path to the selected photos from the Photos app database of the currently used Photos library, which is usually determined automatically.

If there are several photo libraries, it can happen in a few cases that the currently used Photos library cannot be determined and must be selected manually.

Since I'm not an "identified developer", the app has to be started with a right click on the first start and depending on macOS used additionally selecting it in the Finder, which is explained in the ReadMe.

Maybe this is something for you

kind regards

Sedna

PhotosSetCoordinates

Unfortunately, this bug still isn't fixed. I'm seriously considering moving away from Photos for good. Without working geotagging, it is useless for me.

I just tried this one before posting. Should be on the Croatian Island Krk, but is in the Adria.

45,02784558272772 14,677579043046618

They did not read this thread very well. It is not a *Photos* bug it is an *Apple Maps* bug.

I suspect that has been fixed in the Apple location servers, because it is also now working in Catalina - which hasn't had an update.

The Apple developers are looking occasionally at these forums, particularly after a software update. But you cannot rely on them to read each and every post. It is far safer to use the provided feedback tools, if you want to be sure that your bug reports will reach the developer team. You may even get a reply and follow up requests for more details, if you use a developer account.

• For a quick report use the feedback form. Feedback - Photos - Apple
• For a detailed report with screenshots and other test protocols and system logs use the feedback assistant from a free developer account or the or a beta tester membership.

How to get a developer account: Detailed and Effective Bug Reporting - Apple Community

Even worse - I can go as far inland (USA) to longitude -80 (that is almost to Charlston) and it still decides it is the middle of the North Atlantic. If I put the pin directly on Charlston - it gets it right.