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Android now stops you sharing your location in photos

My wife and I run OpenBenches. It's a niche little site which lets people share photos of memorial benches and their locations. Most modern phones embed a geolocation within the photo's metadata, so we use that information to put the photos on a map. Google's Android has now broken that. On the web, we used to use…
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Apr 13, 2026Android now stops you sharing your location in photos by edent427319

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