sebbie2443

Q: Year view not showing location summary

I have a problem with the new photos app on iPhone6 and Yosemite 10.10.3.

In the "year view" places where the photos were taken can usually be accessed in a map (e.g. "United States, Germany and 3 more >").

I have several years of photos and this does work for most of them, but for 2 years (2013 and 2014) there is no location or countries displayed I could tap on to open the map view so I can see what places I visited in those years.

When I zoom in to collections or moments however, every single photo does have location data.

The photos app seems to fail summarizing my places. The problem is the exact same on iPhone and on the new photos app in Yosemite (turning on or off iCloud photo library doesn't make a difference here).

 

Also tried the following: I deleted all photos from my iPhone and sync them again via iTunes. When I did this while having the photos app open in the year view, I could see that the years 2013 and 2014 at first have this link to the map but as more photos are synced both disappear.

 

Any ideas on this? Please help

iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.3, Photos App on Mac and iPhone

Posted on Feb 21, 2015 2:08 PM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Oct 22, 2015 1:08 AM in response to axalexax
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    Oct 22, 2015 1:08 AM in response to axalexax
    The problem is i have been taking pics of my food on a plane,

    Long distance flights, road trips through several states, or having several vacations per year can all make the list of countries exceed the limit of seven. or keepig the photos taken by friend and family in the Photos Library.

    Please send all feedback to Apple and request to remove this limit.   Apple - Photos - Feedback

  • by Ruud Kalberg,

    Ruud Kalberg Ruud Kalberg Nov 24, 2015 8:01 AM in response to sebbie2443
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    Nov 24, 2015 8:01 AM in response to sebbie2443

    I have exactly the same problem, in my case with the year 2014, in which indeed I visited more than 7 countries. For 2015 I was showing I visited 7 countries so far, so I thought let's see what happens when I add a new photo from a different country.

    I added a picture with no location, then changed the location to a new (8th) country, and as expected, the location data in the year view disappeared. Next, I removed the picture, expecting to see the location data back again, but unfortunately it did not come back! Also, when I permanently removed this picture from the 'recently removed' album, the location data in the year view still didn't come back. So now I'm having two years without data...

     

    I'm certainly going to give feedback to Apple about this.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Nov 24, 2015 8:27 AM in response to Ruud Kalberg
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    Nov 24, 2015 8:27 AM in response to Ruud Kalberg

    That is really bad!

     

    And only seven countries per year is just too limiting. One long distance flight while taking pictures from the window of a plane, and we'll have exceeded our yearly limit of seven countries. Most of the year views in my Photos library don't show the places. The missing maps for long distance travels are taking the fun out of the Places feature.

  • by valeski,

    valeski valeski Feb 1, 2016 9:13 PM in response to sebbie2443
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    Feb 1, 2016 9:13 PM in response to sebbie2443

    Same problem here. For years with more than 7 countries, they don't get listed in Years view.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Feb 1, 2016 10:17 PM in response to valeski
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    Feb 1, 2016 10:17 PM in response to valeski

    As a work-around, I have hidden photos in the moments, that would cause to have more countries in the year - areal photos out of the plane on long distance flights for example.  Or photos taken while sailing - all photos with a location showing as somewhere on the water, e.g. "North Atlantic Ocean".  Hidden photos will only be hidden from the library views Moments, Years, Collections, but show in the albums. This way I can reduce the number of countries in the Years and still see the photos in the albums.  Before I hide the photos, I add a keyword "Hide Temporarily", so I can quickly find the photos hidden for this reason.

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