Uploading photos removes or keeps geotag?

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I have been working on a way of processing the samples collected in the field, and for now I have a solution which is probably not the best, because when I upload pictures taken with my phone to an epicollect form, the gps data are removed. Everything else is kept, but I don’t know why the gps is removed. So to recover it I have to take the gps from the original files in my phone with a solution that is not very elegant…
I thought it was the phone, but people at google developer forum keep saying it is the app. I gave epicollect the permissions for gps, but no way. I would like to know, so, if any other user is uploading their geotaged pictures to epicollect app and having or not the same problem.

Thank you in advance!

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We have already responded to this question in the same thread — EXIF information should be preserved.

You can find our previous reply here:
🔗 Photos file names changed during upload

If you are experiencing a different behaviour on your phone, you may consider adding a LOCATION question to capture latitude and longitude separately.

This is an upload from our Samsung phone, Android 14, stock camera app.

See the details

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Sorry but the previous thread was on another topic, feel free to remove this thread if you feel it’s a double.
And thank you for the answer…

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No problems!

Can you provide the details of the phone you are using?

In some Lineage OS roms for example, geotagging does not work.