Google Drive remove metadata from photo when uploading from phone

[oskargn]

Hello,

I have a shared google drive folder where I would like to share photos and the metadata from them. It works fine when I upload photos from my computer, but when I upload the photos directly from my phone the metadata disappears when accessing it on the drive.

I tried uploading photos to Google Photos from my phone and that preserves the metadata. So my solution, for now, is to upload the photos to Google Photos, download them to my computer and then upload them to Google Drive.  

Why does this happen? Is there any faster solution?

[tharg]

I have just spent the afternoon proving to myself that Google Drive zeros the exif GPS location when .jpg files are uploaded from my Samsung Galaxy Ao3 phone. I downloaded apps on my phone to read the exif data. The GPS location is there in the header and accurate. I upload the .jpg to Drive and the GPS location is zero. There's something rather sick about this, if it's a deliberate act. If it's a bug, I hope they fix it fast. Revisiting other options, like iCloud and Outlook. Maybe even the bloatware riddled dropbox if I get desperate.

[tharg]

PS. OneDrive doesn't interfere with exif data. I'm using that to transfer files to my PC now.

[icrew]

I know pretty much less than nothing about Android, but one clarifying question, in the hopes that it might help someone else help you out:

Which app on your phone are you using to upload the photos to Google Drive? Google's Google Drive app? Or maybe an app from Samsung or some other developer?

(I'm wondering if/thinking that it might be an issue with the app that's doing the uploading stripping the Exif, not the Google Drive service itself.)

Just a shot in the dark, really...

Ian

[TangoMango387]

It's very weird as it happens to my jpg photos when I upload them from Samsung Note. This doesn't happen with other photo file format like HEIC file from Iphones.