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). The workaround works.
Inat 1.29.5 (579)
A53 5G (SM-A536B/DS)
Android 13, last update 2023-08-03
A new Android update was just offered (2023-09-01), I installed it.
It got worse, now the workaround also ignores the coordinates from the image.
With Plantnet, the builtin picker is also broken but the workaround still works (after the system update, didn’t try before).
Compare https://identify.plantnet.org/de/k-middle-europe/observations/1019778263 and https://identify.plantnet.org/de/k-middle-europe/observations/1019778235