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Good morning everyone, I have an issue with my Power App, I have a form and it that form there is one part where you can take a picture. All the data goes to a Sharepoint list but the picture loses the gps location. How can I fix this? I don't want to put the location in columns of the list, I want it as metada of the picture. I've tried many thing but it still doesn't work. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks very much

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Hi @RR-10021118-0,

Firstly, Power Apps cannot extract any metadata from photo files. If you take a either take a picture with the camera control, or upload it with the Add Picture control, all that is saved by Power Apps is the image content of the file. The only way that I am aware of to save metadata (which remains in the file anyway) is to take the picture on the device and use an attachment control to attach it to a list record.

However if the photo is filed at the location that it is taken, you can use the built-in Location.Latitude and Location.Longitude to include this in the Library metadata.

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I have tried using camera controls, image controls, and attachment controls. Whether taking the photo directly with the mobile phone or taking it first and then adding it to the application, in all cases, the GPS location metadata is lost. I have enabled the option to include geolocation metadata in the image, and Power Apps has access to my location. The built-in Location.Latitude and Location.Longitude properties help me include the data in SharePoint library columns, but what I am looking for is to have them included within the image as its metadata.

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@RR-10021118-0,

Unfortunately as I notes, there is no facility in either Power Apps or Power Automate to do this.

I have found a couple of references that building a custom connector in Power Automate with ExifTool may do this, but you would need to be familiar with the process.

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