Google has made an important change that will affect the accuracy of location information.
Google has made an important change that will affect the accuracy of location information stored with some photos, potentially causing them to lose their precise location on a map or impacting your ability to search for them based on where they were taken.
If your Google Photos account contains photos that were taken without attached location data, Google will attempt to estimate the location for you. However, one of the most accurate ways to do this, Google’s Location History feature, is . This means Google Photos will have to resort to other methods of guessing where your pictures were taken, such as scanning your photos to look for prominent landmarks.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
This change should boost user privacy, but it could also cause problems if you search for, say, all the photos you took on a particular trip, as stored locations may no longer be as accurate. This may also affect Google Photos’ automatically created ‘Memories’ which can be based on significant locations from your photo library.
Users are now being prompted to delete any stored locations in Google Photos that were previously estimated using the Location History feature. If you want to keep these stored locations, you will have to tap the ‘keep’ button before May 1 2023, or the location data will be deleted. Your photos and videos will not themselves be removed.
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