Fehlende GPS Daten beim Import von iOS

[Wolfgang29120811e5e1]

Ich habe Lightroom auf meinem iPad installiert. Wenn ich jetzt Fotos vom iPad importiere und per Adobe Cloud mit meinem Mac synchronisiere, dann sind in Lightroom Classic keine GPS Daten enthalten. Ist das ein Bug, ein fehlendes Feature oder mache ich etwas falsch?

[Sean McCormack]

A lot of Metadata doesn't translate from Lightroom Ecosystem back to Lightroom Classic. This may be one of them. You could always replace the files on the desktop with the originals from the iPad manually and do a Read Metadata from File from the Metadata menu. 

[Wolfgang29120811e5e1]

Ok, but especially in the case of the GPS data that would be pretty stupid.
During my last vacation I tested this method and specifically the possibility of image editing on the iPad. And I found it very good what is now possible there. But if the positions are missing afterwards, then the whole way with it is obsolete.

[johnrellis]

Hmm, I sync my iPhone with my LR Classic via LR Mobile and LR Cloud, and the synced photos always come through with GPS coordinates attached.

Some troubleshooting steps to narrow down where things are going wrong:

1. Which precise version of LR Classic (do Help > System Info)?

2. Are you using the builtin Ios Camera app or the LR Mobile camera app?

3. Upload one of the problem photos from your LR catalog to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar and post the sharing link here. We can put the file under the microscope to look at its metadata.

4. Airdrop one of the photos from the iPad to your Mac and share that photo here via Dropbox, etc.

[Wolfgang29120811e5e1]

That's interesting. By sync you mean importing the photos (taken with the iPhone camera) on the iPhone into the Lightroom app, right?

These are thereby placed in an album, which will be synchronized via Creative Cloud.

On the PC, in my case a Mac, the photos are then available. Also right?

I did the same thing when I tried it a few weeks ago. However, I edited the images in Lightroom on the iPad. And in the end there were no GPS coordinates left.

You write now that it works for you. I'm still on vacation this week. But I will test it again on Monday when I'm back home and report here.

[Wolfgang29120811e5e1]

Ok, I tested it again. I created a new album in Lightroom on the iPad and then imported photos from Apple "From Shots". (I don't know if "From shots" is the correct translation of the German menu item "Aus Aufnahmen" in the English version) And this time, after syncing the photos with the Mac, the GPS data was available in Lightroom.

I do not know why. I also edited a few pictures on the iPad in Lightroom, just like last time. And I checked the photos from the last import again. There was definitely no GPS data then. This time it worked.

By the way, I noticed something else. When importing pictures on the iPad, you can choose whether you want to select from "All shots", or from an album in Apple Photos. This does not work if the album in Apple Photos is not in the root but in a subfolder. Then it is not shown in the Lightroom import dialog.