Samsung pushed a new One UI 8.5 beta update yesterday, and beyond delivering the Galaxy S26 AI features to older devices, it appears to have quietly addressed a frustrating problem that affected anyone sharing photos between Galaxy and Apple devices.
The issue was straightforward but irritating: images transferred from Galaxy smartphones to iPhones via AirDrop were arriving stripped of their location data. EXIF metadata, including GPS coordinates, was not surviving the transfer. Samsung acknowledged the bug and pointed to Quick Share as the likely culprit, promising a fix in a future beta.
That fix appears to be here. After installing the latest update, images sent from Galaxy devices to Apple devices now retain their location information.
There is a separate but related complaint from some users about missing lens metadata in transferred images. That one is less clear-cut. The issue could not be consistently reproduced, so whether it was widespread or has already been patched quietly remains uncertain.With ten One UI 8.5 beta updates now released for the Galaxy S25 series, the stable rollout is looking close. Beta programs of this length typically signal that Samsung is in final polish mode rather than still working through core functionality. The end of April timeline that has been circulating for the stable release continues to look plausible.
Via – Sam Mobile
