I recently traveled from Minneapolis to Miami and snapped a few pictures along the way. My phone was in Airplane Mode the entire time. As I looked back at some of the pics I see they were Geo-Tagged at places along our route. How is this possible?
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Photo's App Geo Tagging in Airplane Mode?
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It's because the GPS receiver parts of the phone are not turned off when in Airplane Mode.
Yup, that would be it. I believe it started being like that as of one of iOS 8 updates (while prior to that Airplane Mode would disable GPS as well).