alt Hacker News>So, can users transfer their photos via Bluetooth or QuickShare? .. Literally the only way to get a photo with geolocation intact is to plug in a USB cable
Bluetooth is not QuickShare, stop conflating them. Bluetooth works. I just tried it. It just sends the entire file to the destination, filename intact with all EXIF, no gimmicks, tricks, or extra toggles. As it has always done for 20+ years.
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edent • today at 1:36 PM
OP here. I'm not conflating them. That's why I used the word "or".
I don't know how modern your Android phone is, but on all of mine sharing via Bluetooth strips away some of the EXIF.
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In my testing, when sharing from apps that use MediaStore like Google Photos or Fossify Gallery (using a `content://media/` URI), the GPS location was stripped even via Bluetooth. This seems to be the default behavior from Android 10 onwards.
https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/m...
> Photographs > If your app uses scoped storage, the system hides location information by default
When sharing via FileProvider from file managers like MiXplorer or Total Commander, the raw file is sent as is, and the GPS location stays intact.