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Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to ... by Jcowell on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:05PM (#28351305)
Yes but I’m saying that’s a feature in Photos right now. So long as the photo has location data , you can see it on the Map in Places on the albums tab.
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Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to ... by sillysaurusx on Monday August 30, 2021 @08:13AM (#28354848)
Thank you! I did finally figure out what you were pointing out. Apparently there is a “places” album, as you say.

For some reason, it only has 40 places, whereas I have 9,987 photos. I definitely have photos from Cancun, so I wonder if the location data somehow got stripped, possibly when I got a new iPhone around 4 months ago… though that doesn’t make much sense to me.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for pointing out that the thing I wanted already exists on iOS, even if it didn’t have a pin on Cancun. I’ll check the exif data someday, perhaps, or sync to Google photos and see if it pops up.

Cheers!

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