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We’ve started rolling out a release of 1.29.11 (585) to all Android users, and that should fix this issue. It’s working on both my Pixel 3A and Pixel 7. It should be available to everyone in the next few days.

It’s not the same because it’s from the most recent update, it was perfectly working before 26 August 2023, including in December 2022

as i understand it, the issue manifests itself as a result of a change in Android itself, not in the iNat Android app. so you probably got an Android system update on 26 Aug, and that’s what caused the iNat app to start not working for you. as far as i know, the iNat app has not yet been updated to …

[image] igor117: It feels like current developers of the app are not actual iNat users and almost not testing new changes As far as I know, most of them are regular iNat users, but the difficulty with testing for these kinds of bugs is that most of the time they are specific to a particular m…

Merged as this seems to be the same issue due to change in Android photo picker.

I do not think the merge is in order, something definitely happened! The picker is not unusable, but it works perfectly in PlantNET on th esame phone!!!

No, it isn’t, other apps, like PlantNET, on my phone still get a better photo picker. Maybe they will also use the bad one when I update them, but I do not have automatic updates enabled as often that leads to problems like this.

I’m not sure what I can add to what I’ve already said. This is due to the Android photo picker being changed. We and others (including someone from PlantNet, a few weeks ago) asked Google to have the picker include GPS data, but they’ve said they won’t do it . I don’t know what other apps use, maybe …

I recently wondered why my observations were all in the Gulf of Guinea and required manual correction, now I know why (it seems to be a strange new “feature” in Android which requires separate permissions to read Exif data from pics where the permission to read the image itself is already present). …

Interestingly, Plantnet actually complained about this issue (most recent comment on it): https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/243294058#comment14 So this is an issue that extends across similar apps.

Android app not reading picture location data

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vladimir_fuka September 1, 2023, 3:41pm 55

I opened a new report for that https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/the-new-andoid-app-version-now-uses-a-very-restricted-photo-picker/44809

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