Geotagging photos
When your phone saves a location with each photo, Ullr can read it and place a feature on the map automatically as you add it. No dropping pins by hand — you photograph the jump you just built and it lands in the right spot.
Geotagging is a camera setting, not an Ullr setting, so you turn it on once in your phone’s settings and forget about it.
Location is stored in the photo itself. Ullr reads it when you attach the photo — it does not track your phone in the background.
iPhone
Open Location Services
Open Settings, tap Privacy & Security, then tap Location Services.
On older versions of iOS this is just Privacy rather than Privacy & Security.
Make sure Location Services is on
The switch at the top of the screen must be on. If it is off, nothing below it can record a location.
Find the Camera app
Scroll down the list of apps and tap Camera.
Allow location while using the app
Choose While Using the App, and turn on Precise Location.
Precise Location matters here. Without it iOS records only an approximate area, which is not accurate enough to place a feature on a trail.
Android
Android varies by manufacturer, so the wording differs between phones — look for whichever of these your camera calls it.
Open your camera’s settings
Open the Camera app and tap the Settings icon (⚙️). On Samsung phones you may need to swipe in from the left edge of the screen first to reveal the shooting modes and settings.
Turn on location saving
Enable Save location. Depending on the phone this may be called Location tags, GPS tag, or Geotagging.
Check the camera’s location permission
If the switch will not stay on, the Camera app itself does not have permission. Open Settings → Apps → Camera → Permissions → Location and set it to Allow only while using the app.
Geotagging is on but Ullr still isn’t finding the location
Almost always, the photo lost its location somewhere between the camera and Ullr:
- Take photos with your phone’s camera app directly. Some apps — Instagram is the usual culprit — strip location data before saving to your camera roll.
- Don’t send the photo to yourself. Location data is commonly removed when a photo travels by text message, chat app or email. Attach the original from your camera roll instead.
- Screenshots have no location. A screenshot of a photo is a new image, and it carries none of the original’s data.
- Check the photo itself. On iPhone, open the photo in Photos and swipe up — if there is no map, the photo has no location and Ullr cannot recover it.
If a photo has no location, you can still add the feature and place it on the map by hand.