We have recently had the GeoImage functions deployed to our Cloud instance, howe

We have recently had the GeoImage functions deployed to our Cloud instance, however it would appear having tried to implement, that photos uploaded by IOS do not have hardly any GPS EXIF data, whereas the same photos uploaded from an Android device have everything. The IOS device is set to upload the "original" photo not small/medium etc.

Does anyone happen to know if this expected, and if Apple are stripping out the data on upload (which I fear it will be!), or is this possibly an Appian thing?

Thanks...

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  • Chris - the explanation is that the ios file browser you use in Appian to upload an image (the default photo browser provided by Apple to apps) strips out identifying tags such as location and date/time. Android doesn't do this kind of auto-stripping. (It sounds like you have observed that there are far fewer tags in an iOS image.)

    This has been a known issue, so I apologize for not pointing it out on the component thread.

    If you turn location on, take a photo on your iPhone, and email it to a process or upload from a desktop, you will see the tags remain.

    The only way to change this behavior from the Appian side is to create a custom photo browser in the Appian app instead of using apple's default one. Note that mobile safari's file uploader will do the same thing (remove the tags). If this is a high priority issue for you can you explain your use case and it can be turned into an enhancement request?
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  • Chris - the explanation is that the ios file browser you use in Appian to upload an image (the default photo browser provided by Apple to apps) strips out identifying tags such as location and date/time. Android doesn't do this kind of auto-stripping. (It sounds like you have observed that there are far fewer tags in an iOS image.)

    This has been a known issue, so I apologize for not pointing it out on the component thread.

    If you turn location on, take a photo on your iPhone, and email it to a process or upload from a desktop, you will see the tags remain.

    The only way to change this behavior from the Appian side is to create a custom photo browser in the Appian app instead of using apple's default one. Note that mobile safari's file uploader will do the same thing (remove the tags). If this is a high priority issue for you can you explain your use case and it can be turned into an enhancement request?
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