Correction (or update): the workaround seems to work. I don’t know whether I did a mistake last week (probably) or something changed.
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.
I’m on release 1.29.11 (585) with a Pixel 6. My observations don’t get a location when using the new picker. Clicking “Browse” in the new picker and selecting photos using the old picker does bring the location over.
So I have a workaround but the default workflow is not working properly.
Exact same experience on my Pixel 7. The workaround is only a minor annoyance for me but probably challenging for casual users. So annoying that Google won’t budge on this.
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Description of problem This appears to be the same problem that people were discussing in Dec 2022 (I think) but I did not have this issue until now so I wonder if it IS still the same bug. I noticed the issue after my phone force updated overnight. The workaround that someone suggested last December where you by-pass this new photo picker did work but I would prefer not to have to go through a bunch of extra steps for every single observation I post with the app. Is there anything in the works to fix this bug?
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Moved your report to this current thread which seems to be about the same issue.
Location not being added to observation photos liaded into iNat using Android
Using iNaturalist app vs.1.30.15 (608) from a Samsung phone running Android 11
When I used to add photos to observations from within the iNaturalist app (importing from my phone’s Gallery), location data was automatically included.
Now, the date and time are automatically imported, but not the location information. I am not sure when exactly this changed, but it certainly makes uploading multiple photos a pain, because it takes forever. And, then my locations are less accurate.
I have tried to figure out how to fix this, and have read through some threads, but so far have not found the info I need.
Help please?
Thx.
Use share from the gallery app to iNaturalist instead of opening a new observation and adding the photos. I found out it is a much faster workflow when uploadimg many observations.
