I’ve tried with everything disabled in the power saving menu. It makes no difference. Routinely I have auto power off set to 5 mins. Viewfinder 1 min. Everything else disabled. I don’t like the lcd screen dimming.
Here’s one. There are many others describing similar behavior. https://www.dpreview.com/forums/threads/problem-with-r6-and-camera-connect-iphone-gps-tagging.4667994/Tbh I’ve given up on a fix now, I’m just disappointed the R6iii doesn’t have internal...
I think most of the IPhone users in this thread have location set to “always” and background app refresh set. These settings make no difference.My R6ii pulls location from the phone at power up then never again. It isn’t a time or movement issue, the...
There are long threads over at DP Review forum about this same issue with the new R5ii. In one of those threads someone had brought up this issue at a trade show with a Canon rep, also asking why internal GPS insn’t included with Canon’s enthusiast ...
Power cycling does work but it’s a drag having to remember to power cycle each time you want to update location. I also don’t think that should be necessary. It does mean you can’t have the camera ready to go for a quick shot if you want that quick s...