Recover GPS Coordinates from Google Takeout
Did your Google Takeout export strip out original dates, camera info, or GPS coordinates? TakeoutFix automatically merges the separate JSON metadata sidecar files back into your photos and videos offline on your device.
Dynamic EXIF Header Verification Matrix
Why Google Takeout Stripped Your GPS Coordinates
When exporting your photo library via Google Takeout, the platform separates your media binary files from their descriptive headers. Instead of writing metadata directly inside the photo headers, it creates individual sidecar files ending in .json.
As a result, importing these files into new systems (like Apple Photos, Windows Gallery, or Synology) displays them with wrong dates (often showing the date of your takeout export itself) and strips out GPS location tracking maps.
How TakeoutFix Resolves the Bug Locally
TakeoutFix's client-side compilation engine bypasses network servers. By keeping file matching 100% on your device:
- Recursively traverses directories to locate sidecar JSONs.
- Executes name-hash matching to link edited and copy versions.
- Writes binary headers directly without quality loss or recompression.
3 Steps to Recover GPS Coordinates
Select Folders
Provide your Google Takeout directory. TakeoutFix scans files recursively entirely within your local browser sandbox.
Run Matcher
Our dynamic heuristic resolver maps modified, truncated, and multi-copy suffix filenames back to their parent JSON descriptors.
Inject Headers
Timestamps, GPS coordinates, and camera info are written directly into binary headers, exporting clean folders for immediate import.