Comment by rickdeckard

Seems to be quite simple, an App which wants to access this info just needs to set the permission for it.

Chrome doesn't seem to request that permission, so the OS doesn't provide the location-data to the app. So Chrome rather ended up in this state by doing nothing, not by explicitly doing something...

If your app targets Android 10 (API level 29) or higher and needs to retrieve unredacted EXIF metadata from photos, you need to declare the ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION permission in your app's manifest, then request this permission at runtime.

Source: https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/m...