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It appears not. Safari appears to remove the GPS data when you upload. I tested it myself by uploading a photo to https://exif.tools/ and no GPS location was reported. The same image copied to my laptop and then checked locally with exiftool did have the GPS location.

Also see this thread https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/326789/gps-exif-fr...

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This is what I suspected. There were issues with iPhone photo rotation being incorrect after upload so you had to do it manually. I think this is because the EXIF data was missing.

I think people on this thread are confusing uploading in the browser with uploading via the Facebook app

To be clear, exif data was still present when uploaded (including the orientation data) but the GPS location had been removed. I think problems with photos being incorrectly orientated is more to do with the website not correctly interpreting (or completely ignoring) the relevant exif data.

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