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fkainz Author

Level 1

14 points

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

When I enter a location for a picture, e.g. "38.007949, -122.487170" in the info panel in Photos, the location that ends up being stored is a different one, sometimes several miles away from what I enter. Every location anywhere in San Rafael, California, gets changed to the location of San Rafael City Hall. Locations in San Francisco, are changed to Twin Peaks in San Francisco.

For me, Photos started behaving this way a couple of days ago (October 2020); previously Photos would just store whatever location I entered. Is anybody else seeing this?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 10, 2020 8:10 PM

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YOCKOW

Level 1

4 points

Feb 6, 2021 2:56 AM in response to fkainz

Sad news.

This isn't fixed on macOS Big Sur 11.2 (Photos.app Version 6.0 (330.0.150))...

AppleScript (code above) is available also in newer version.

Feb 23, 2021 11:19 AM in response to jotzet

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

Mar 9, 2021 8:52 PM in response to fkainz

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...

Mar 10, 2021 12:07 AM in response to Birdernaturalist

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.

Mar 10, 2021 7:10 PM in response to léonie

I can't enter keywords anywhere, whether looking at the photo in an album or Library.

Mar 10, 2021 7:11 PM in response to TonyCollinet

That makes sense. I was making assumptions.

fkainz Author

Level 1

14 points

Mar 13, 2021 2:52 PM in response to Birdernaturalist

After updating to MacOS 11.2.3, entering latitude and longitude works for me. Yay!

Entering keywords works, too, sort of. It requires hitting Enter two or three times before any keyword takes hold.

fkainz Author

Level 1

14 points

Mar 13, 2021 8:34 PM in response to fkainz

I spoke too soon. I just encountered another instance of latitude/longitude coordinates being snapped to a different location that is miles away. :-(

Mar 13, 2021 11:06 PM in response to fkainz

Can you post those coordinates here, so I can try them in Catalina?

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