# Uploading photos removes or keeps geotag?

**URL:** <https://community.epicollect.net/t/uploading-photos-removes-or-keeps-geotag/1031>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 21, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.epicollect.net/t/uploading-photos-removes-or-keeps-geotag/1031 "2025-02-21T13:10:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![rpoloni](https://community.epicollect.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rpoloni](https://community.epicollect.net/u/rpoloni)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.epicollect.net/t/uploading-photos-removes-or-keeps-geotag/1031/1 "2025-02-21T13:10:28Z")

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### Question

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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**Author:** ![Epicollect5](https://community.epicollect.net/user_avatar/community.epicollect.net/epicollect5/32/2653_2.png) [@Epicollect5](https://community.epicollect.net/u/Epicollect5)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.epicollect.net/t/uploading-photos-removes-or-keeps-geotag/1031/2 "2025-02-21T16:32:37Z")

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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](https://community.epicollect.net/t/photos-file-names-changed-during-upload/1017)

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.

[![](https://discourse-space.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/a/a49a94546338e764e42247aa1735d34f70137ecb.jpeg) ](https://five.epicollect.net/api/export/media/ec5-demo-project?type=photo&format=entry_original&name=59df8b9a-3c85-4f1f-b8ad-dff7a6a2c3ee_1740156504.jpg)

See the details

> **[ec5-demo-project?type=photo&format=entry\_original&name=59df8b9a-3c85-4f1...](https://exifinfo.org/detail/RMaHLAVviY1vA4MyKVmGKw)**
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> Online tool to analyze and display the meta-data in images and other media files.

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**Author:** ![rpoloni](https://community.epicollect.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rpoloni](https://community.epicollect.net/u/rpoloni)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.epicollect.net/t/uploading-photos-removes-or-keeps-geotag/1031/3 "2025-02-21T17:04:44Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Epicollect5](https://community.epicollect.net/user_avatar/community.epicollect.net/epicollect5/32/2653_2.png) [@Epicollect5](https://community.epicollect.net/u/Epicollect5)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.epicollect.net/t/uploading-photos-removes-or-keeps-geotag/1031/4 "2025-02-21T19:31:26Z")

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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.