The Maps app allows adding caption to a photo.
Till date, I have ignored that feature & only a handful of the pics held a caption.
However, the feature behaves bizarrely.
You enter a caption and then submit that. Then realize there was some error. If you recall that photo once again, the caption will not be there, forcing to retype everything.
However, if you come out of contributions & then access that once again, the caption will be there. Moreover, in a session beyond a certain count, the app will report “Server error. Please try after some time.”
Added to that, any attempt to edit also behaves weirdly.
When you place the cursor at the start of the text & enter something, the pointer jumps back to the end & the writing appears there.
Despite all these difficulties, I started including captions on a large scale.
The first discovery, some photos were redundant! I couldn’t describe any added significance of that another picture to a viewer.
Wherever I felt so, I purged the pic immediately.
In short, the exercise of adding a caption becomes a self-audit & helps in removing clutter.
To a great extent, that may put a brake on reporting “Not a photo or video of the place.” also.
I remember including a picture of Taj as seen from the Agra fort.
In no time, that became private.
True, the Taj was covering the most of the part in the frame & like so an instantaneous reaction of a cleanup enthusiast would be to report that.
However, that’s the view the emperor observed each day while being imprisoned in the fort! Nevertheless, one can’t prevent a jealous mind from doing so even then.
Over & above, I have noticed one more benefit of captions to detect private photos.
That, I shall describe in the following part.
By the way, the auto caption feature is still at an introductory phase & the current contributions may not include that automatically.