Geotagged iPhone Images lose exif location data

Thanks for the quick response.

There are some other apps that allow for exporting Geo Data to SMS (one example is called "GeoDataToSms" iirc). I'm subtly disappointed that third party apps would be the only solution here. I can build an app, but its adding complexity that I would rather not be worried about.

I want my audience to send an email or SMS to an email account. That simple. The emails are then collected and the information from the message (images, exif data) is recorded in a database. When an admin visits the site they can see each image in a map and act on it. Stupid simple right?

I think being able to email full blown photos is good enough for this round. But I think the expectation for most users (that even know geo data exists) is that geo data will be sent no matter the chosen image size. The same imo is true for SMS. I just have to limit the expectations when my users are on an iPhone. I can build an app that handles geolocation data in round twelve. And just let my iPhone audience know that their devices' cool features are limited by the software that powers them.

I hear that, but I do somehow doubt this was a regression. It looks to me like the "send photo" feature programmers were forgetful about exif. At least to me it seems more likely they simply resized the image and failed to remember the exif data in the result.

Full size still works because... it aint "fixed" 🙂

ℹ Thanks wjosten for entertaining my curiosity. I was hoping for a setting I overlooked or some kind of "it's on the roadmap for August 1" reply from Apple. I would rather tell my end users, yup good thing you chose ios because in August they'll have a toggle you can set that adds the exif data to all images of any size SMS or Email.