iPhone app does not use time and location stamp in photo EXIF

When I open the app and record an observation, the app gives me a warning that there is no location data. The map shows the entire world.
If I take a photo with my camera on the ipad, it saves the metadata with the location, but will not upload the metadata.
When I try to open the site in the browser, it will upload the image, but not the location.
When I copy the image onto my desktop and upload it using the browser. It will copy the image and gives me a message saying that it is uploading the metadata, but it does not.

It may be the locations where I take images are not close enough to a phone network to get accurate data. I don’t know how the GPS data is recorded. I can see locations on my device when I look at the images, but they do not transfer at all.
During the inaturalist challenge, I am having to add the locations by HAND to all of the images in certain parks.
PLEASE FIX THIS!

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