In my last blog post [1] , I wrote about my concerns over giving apps permission to access my photo library. Back then, I had found a workable, yet slightly cumbersome, solution involving a Shortcut [2] . I would run the Shortcut from a selected photo in the photo library and it would strip the metadata and then present a Share Sheet to send the cleaned photo to another app. Of all metadata, I am most concerned with location data.
A few months ago, shortly after installing ios 13.3, I made a pleasant discovery.
Interestingly, sometimes it shows Location included and sometimes it has the name of the place, where the photo was taken. I have not figured out the pattern here, yet.