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Geotag location in photos not working after iOS 17 upgrade?
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15 ProMax. 17.4
Photos will show the general local, date and time at the top of the photo. Select ”i” and I get the rest of the info.
The only issue I am seeing is a common hit/miss when the system tries to id what the animal in the photo is. It frequently gets it wrong.
I tried doing a search by local and it came up with the correct number for the photos I have on device. The oldest photos I have on this device originally came from a 13 ProMax. Restores are done via my MBP; encrypted bu.
I do not know if this has any effect; I do not use iCloud for photo backup. Photos are primarily in jpg or RAW.
I can only get the location of the photo if I hit "i" and once I do that, the location stays updated on the top of the pic with the date and time. THe issue is when searching for the photos and typing in the city or township, address, etc,. they won't show up in the search results unless I manually open a photo and wipe up or hit "i". How long does indexing take? I did the restore yesterday to the new phone and I have 50k photos. Nothing with icloud, did from itunes backup of old phone to new.
when I search photos by a location like “Canada” or Texas, city, state, etc. It only shows a few pictures when on my old phone it shows over 5,000 pictures when searching Texas. I see that all the pictures are there when I look at pictures on the map but the search feature is not working. Is there any way to fix this? New phone is on ios 17.4. This is driving me nuts.
(I did notice 90% of the photos don't show the location at the top of them, they show the date and time. Now, if I swipe up on the photo, the top of the screen will then update the location and then that particular pic is searchable in the search) Now, I can't do that for 50k photos individually.
(I did notice 90% of the photos don't show the location at the top of them, they show the date and time. Now, if I swipe up on the photo, the top of the screen will then update the location and then that particular pic is searchable in the search) Now, I can't do that for 50k photos individually.
Sounds like search is an indexing issue.
Unfortunately if a hard reset or making sure locations services (camera) is on didn’t work, only way I know to force a reindex is via a reset after backing all up.
Looking in the Apple Community pages, you aren’t the only one with this issue. Hope you can find a solution.
Unfortunately if a hard reset or making sure locations services (camera) is on didn’t work, only way I know to force a reindex is via a reset after backing all up.
Looking in the Apple Community pages, you aren’t the only one with this issue. Hope you can find a solution.
I've read on these forums that getting Photos to index properly after a restore can take a few days!
Hopefully your indexes will eventually get rebuilt, and that the problem is as simple as that. I guess checking again tomorrow and seeing a higher number of matches will prove it's an indexing issue. If the number doesn't increase then the problem is likely something else.
Hopefully your indexes will eventually get rebuilt, and that the problem is as simple as that. I guess checking again tomorrow and seeing a higher number of matches will prove it's an indexing issue. If the number doesn't increase then the problem is likely something else.
I fixed it! Again, currently, I don't use icloud, everything came from an Itunes backup that had over 80k photos total. How I fixed it.
I reset Location Services as some write-ups have said it may not be working properly. The Photos app and Camera are using your phone’s location via GPS to tag photos or photos. To reset Location Services. On your device, go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset Location & Privacy. This will reset your location settings to the factory default.
After that I did a hard reset and I could see the photos start updating in the search crazy fast.
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One other small annoyance, I came from an Iphone XS with super old firmware, and now on a 15 pro with 17.4.
In text messages, say someone texted you today, and you went in and deleted the individual text from them, (this would move the conversation back down your list to say yesterday or the last time they texted you, and that message wouldn't show up at the top of your screen still) Now with ios 17.4, if you delete say all the texts someone sent you today, their message thread still says up at the same spot from the original time stamp that was sent to you. It doesn't know to put that message down in your list further after you delete the single messages. I don't know when that changed? or if it's a bug in the new ios.
Or say you send a new text today to someone that that haven't texted in a few days ago... If you delete your own message that you just sent them after you send it, it still has their message thread at the TOP of your phone, it doesn't push it back to a few days later where it should be.
I reset Location Services as some write-ups have said it may not be working properly. The Photos app and Camera are using your phone’s location via GPS to tag photos or photos. To reset Location Services. On your device, go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset Location & Privacy. This will reset your location settings to the factory default.
After that I did a hard reset and I could see the photos start updating in the search crazy fast.
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One other small annoyance, I came from an Iphone XS with super old firmware, and now on a 15 pro with 17.4.
In text messages, say someone texted you today, and you went in and deleted the individual text from them, (this would move the conversation back down your list to say yesterday or the last time they texted you, and that message wouldn't show up at the top of your screen still) Now with ios 17.4, if you delete say all the texts someone sent you today, their message thread still says up at the same spot from the original time stamp that was sent to you. It doesn't know to put that message down in your list further after you delete the single messages. I don't know when that changed? or if it's a bug in the new ios.
Or say you send a new text today to someone that that haven't texted in a few days ago... If you delete your own message that you just sent them after you send it, it still has their message thread at the TOP of your phone, it doesn't push it back to a few days later where it should be.
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