GPS Location Tagging: Remember Where Every Recording Was Made

March 29, 2026

What it does

1Take v1.4 adds GPS location tagging. When you hit record, 1Take grabs your location and converts it to a place name — a neighborhood, district, or city — then shows it next to the recording in your library.

If you record in different studios, play different venues, or do field recordings, you no longer have to guess where a take was captured.

How it works

Nothing to set up. It just runs when you start recording.

  1. You tap the record button.
  2. 1Take requests your location at coarse accuracy — about 100 meters. Imprecise by design. The point is a place name, not a coordinate.
  3. iOS does reverse geocoding to turn the coordinate into something readable, like "Shibuya, Tokyo" or "Brooklyn, New York."
  4. That name goes into markers.json alongside the recording's other metadata.
  5. It shows up in the recording list and in the detail view.

Privacy

1Take uses iOS's coarse location mode, which caps precision at roughly 100 meters. Good enough to know which neighborhood or venue, not good enough to identify a specific address. No precise GPS coordinates are stored.

You get useful context ("that take from the Osaka show last Thursday") without the app knowing exactly where you were.

Permissions

The first time you record after updating to v1.4, iOS will ask whether 1Take can access your location. Your options:

  • Allow once — location captured for this recording only, asked again next time.
  • Allow while using the app — location captured automatically each time, no further prompts.
  • Don't allow — location tagging off, recording works normally with no location attached.

Declining location permission doesn't affect anything else. Recording quality, AI optimization, and cloud sync all work the same either way.

Change this anytime in Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > 1Take.

Where the data lives

The place name is stored in markers.json — the same file that holds markers, notes, and other recording metadata. If you access recordings through the Files app or cloud sync, you can read it directly from there.

Inside 1Take, location shows up in two places:

  • Recording list — small label under the recording name, next to the date and duration.
  • Recording detail view — in the metadata section alongside file size, sample rate, etc.

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