Inconsistent search by street address in Photos app on iPhone

If your pictures don't show up in the Mac collection

then they may not be recording the GPS values, or the location information may get stripped in pictures added to Photos through emails and texts or from web sites.

When location is included, the GPS data is recorded in longitude and latitude, not as a street addresses. Named locations are interpreted from internet tables. Searching by street address will be finicky, but searching for a city should work.

The best deal, really, is to include useful items in the caption to help with searches.

gita219 wrote: … i used to be able to search based on street address on the photos (using metadata), and sometime the search works, other times it cannot find the photos.

The usual way to search by location is to use the Map view in Collections, perhaps with the Maps app. Does that work?

please stick to one behaviour & limit, so I can use the tool (ie photo search) properly.

if the intention is to add feature, then dont break the previous feature!

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