Comment by lapcat
1 month ago
This would work only if you've already given the Camera app permission to geotag your photos, which I haven't, so it may be a nonissue.
1 month ago
This would work only if you've already given the Camera app permission to geotag your photos, which I haven't, so it may be a nonissue.
It works if you use the Photos app to look at any image with a geo EXIF tag.
But thank you for one more demonstration that even the HN crowd can’t reliably give or deny informed consent here.
And how, pray tell, do geotagged images magically get into your Photos library?
I actually couldn't get Photos address search to work right in my testing before writing my previous comment, even with a geotagged photo that I just took. So I'm not sure whether I have some setting disabled that prevents it.
The only match was via character recognition of a printed form that I had photographed.
To be clear, I meant that it was a nonissue for me, because I don't geotag my photos (except in that one test). Whether it's an issue for other people, I don't know.
One of the problems with iPhone lockdown is that it's a lot more difficult to investigate how things work technically than on the Mac.
> And how, pray tell, do geotagged images magically get into your Photos library?
By saving them from any source other than the camera app you’ve configured to not use geo-tagging.
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It's all about soundbite replies.
The issue is much deeper for anyone who has remotely worked with EXIF data for any creative or professional work they do.