Captioning photos in Google Maps

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Could you please advise how to caption photos in a Google Maps review. This option appears to have dropped off. I am using a Windows 10 PC.

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I think this post can solve your questions:
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Welcome to the Local Guides Connect community, @Mohan.V!

Your last sentence “I am using a Windows 10 PC.” gives the clue:
On the desktop, i.e. using Google Maps in a Web browser, there is no way to add a caption (as of my knowledge).

Using the Mobile app, there are three ways:

  • Using “My Contributions”, tapping on a photo and then the pencil icon allows you to add a caption. Doing it this way has the advantage, users can see the caption at the POI’s photo listing, but note, we do not get any points for doing so (nevertheless this is my favorite way to add a caption whenever it makes sense.)
  • Using the Update tap. This is described in the link provided by @new.user as well as here and in this discussion.
  • By adding names to food dishes.

If you upload photos from the desktop (what I always do), you can add captions afterwards from a mobil, using either the first or third method described above.
The second method can only be used by uploading photo and caption at the same time from the mobile app,
Hope, this helps.

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Thank you WilfriedB. This is exactly what I required and was able to caption the photos in the mobile app.

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I am glad, I could help you and thanks a lot for the feedback @Mohan.V :pray:
I always prefer to write and maintain text with the keyboard and use MyPhoneExplorer which not only synchronizes essential data between Windows and Android, but also provides the possibility to copy and paste from PC to Smartphone and vice versa. That way I create and store the captions on my PC and simply copy it to the mobile app. For me, this makes the process much smoother.