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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.

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!!!

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

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.

[image] tiwane: they’ve said they won’t do it This is so frustrating… I just went and read the issue over on Google and it’s bizarre how they’re not recognizing that many, many people have very legitimate use cases for pulling this data! @tiwane and others, just wanted to say thanks for loo…

I actually found out that the “share” workaround results into a faster workflow, because one does not have to scroll through the large collection to find the location where one was a minute ago all the time. I hope it will remain functional but with Google one never knows, they do what they can to b…

Having the same issue but it only started recently.

Android app not reading picture location data

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Android app not reading picture location data

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