When I select photos from Google Photos, the date/time and location is not being imported with the photo. This applies to photos being imported from the cloud, as opposed photos stored on the local device. This problem has been occurring for at least a few months.

I just discussed this with our Android developer. Here is why we download a save a local copy. We basically save a local copy of it, to the app’s cache directory, since we need to resize it before uploading it. When you scroll through the obs list, we can either show online photos (=already uploa…

[image] danaleeling: Is this perhaps related to: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/google-photos-import-is-currently-not-functional/65 It might be. Other consequences of our lack of Google verification have begun manifesting this week. As usual, Google is a bit opaque regarding why things work …

I have the same problem too. Google Photos automatically uploads photos from your phone to its cloud. You can then choose to have Photos remove all photos from your phone that it’s ‘safely backed up.’ When I upload photos that are still on my phone, [most of the time] all the info appears. When I ha…

On certain Android devices (such as the Pixel), Google Photos is the gallery app for both photos stored on the smartphone as well as those photos which have been moved to the cloud. The reason I’m mentioning this is that whilst for Google Photos users, the steps required to Share an image with iNatu…

[image] kueda: do you have the “Remove geo location” setting on or off in the Google Photos app? This setting is set to OFF [image] kueda: Does the iNaturalist app have the permission to access your photos, location, and storage? Yes, iNaturalist app has full permissions

I just thought I’d follow up on this: I’ve noticed that location information from the photos in Google Photos seems to not transfer to iNaturalist when Google Photos reports that the location is “estimated location”, which I guess, means that it is an approximate location, derived from triangulation…

This is 100% true: [Screenshot_20191115-173932]

I think that is a separate issue, though. Even if the photo has a [non estimate] location, as long as it is not on the phone, the location won’t import.

I’m not sure if this is a bug, or some feature that I’m not fully understanding - but for the past year or two autofill has been working fine. Over this past weekend I took a few hundred photos in an area where I had no cell service on my phone, but the images still have the GPS tag and time so I pl…

Just wanted to add this further observation that I discovered this afternoon - The photo fails to autofill properly when I try to import it from Google Photos - however if I download the photo to my device, and upload from a folder using the android app - the fields autofill properly. So this appea…

Thanks for following up with more information. It can also often be helpful to list the version of the iNat app that you are using as well as screenshots, such as the photo metadata in the Google Photos app. It sounds like this might be a duplicate of an existing report: https://forum.inaturalist.o…

Metadata from Google Photos not importing (Android)

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Metadata from Google Photos not importing (Android)

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