# Location data off iphone works, but not once I'm on my desktop

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**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [April 15, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-data-off-iphone-works-but-not-once-im-on-my-desktop/50450 "2024-04-15T15:15:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![janetwright](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/janetwright/32/519_2.png) [@janetwright](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/janetwright)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-data-off-iphone-works-but-not-once-im-on-my-desktop/50450/3 "2024-04-15T22:06:20Z")

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We just recently had a discussion about this at [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/submitting-observations-from-apple-laptop-is-export-to-a-folder-a-necessary-step/49947/1](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/submitting-observations-from-apple-laptop-is-export-to-a-folder-a-necessary-step/49947/1). To me, the most foolproof way to get from the Apple Photos app on your laptop to iNat upload is to “export” the photos for observations to a file folder (make sure you are sharing location info, as @tiwane says) and then drop them into the iNat page. Dropping them directly from Apple Photos to the upload portal seems to work OK for some browsers but not others.

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