I’m wishing to correct location of photos on my iPad Pro, but I understand it is not possible to drag and drop the pin in the map view. The only way to change the location is trying to find an address or landmark which has been included in the location database. My photos are often from seaward or on Rivers. Anyone got any ideas? I find it incredible that Apple doesn’t allow dragging the pin to a correct location (why not??).
iPad Pro, iPadOS 26
You could try to enter the latitude and longitude of the location you want to assign instead of the location name. But you will have to experiment and find out which format will be accepted with your location and language settings.
In Germany this format seems to be working: I opened the Map, then dropped a pin on the location I wanted and copied the latitude and longitude and pasted them in Photos into the "assign a location" field.
You could try to enter the latitude and longitude of the location you want to assign instead of the location name. But you will have to experiment and find out which format will be accepted with your location and language settings.
In Germany this format seems to be working: I opened the Map, then dropped a pin on the location I wanted and copied the latitude and longitude and pasted them in Photos into the "assign a location" field.
léonie wrote: …You could try to enter the latitude and longitude of the location you want to assign instead of the location name. But you will have to experiment and find out which format will be accepted with your location and language settings.
In thinking about posting on this earlier, I tried exactly this--getting the coordinates from the iPad Map app and pasting those into the Photos info-- but I kept getting crazy locations. I finally managed to alter the coordinates to get the right place, but I was never sure exactly what worked, so I left it to you!
Well, it worked fine, just now. Being in America, of course, I used "periods" rather than commas. On my Mac, Maps gives a coordinate like "32.59008° N, 96.33021° W" which works fine in Photos. And today it works fine on the iPad, as well. Maybe it was me…
Good to know, Richard, that you also could use the coordinates as a location name on the iPad.
It is a pity that the user guides are not describing the format how to enter latitude and longitude coordinates, depending on the region settings.
Editing photos location on iPad Pro by map
