stevenmonrad

Another vote for the XF18-55mm! It can hold its own for landscape photos.
If you are really thinking you need the wide end for landscapes, sure the extra 2mm will “put more in the frame” for those mountains in the distance, but there is more to it than that, you might find that the compression you get from a telephoto lens suits you more and the wide angle lens is better for close up stuff.
Another option is to buy the body-only and then get a decent used XF14mm. If you look around the used markets, you could stay in your budget range. This lens gets rave reviews from astrophotographers, and landscape folks. It is a wide prime though, so it will be a little limiting for birds in flight.

With the app and a wireless connection, you can transfer the current location to the camera. That's all. The next pictures you take, will have these coordinates. Finally, the coordinates will be used for the next 3 hours or until you transfer new coordinates.
 
There is no "continuous" transfer of coordinates and of course, your coordinates won't be very exact if you are moving (e.g. through a park or city). But it is in my opinion a pretty good "workaround" as long as no gps receiver is integrated into the camera.
 
Hope this helps you a bit.

I can't speak to your experience with the iPhone, but as soon as I saw this Thread I went to Google Play and grabbed the 'Fujifilm Camera Remote' for Android and installed in in my LG4.
 
Still experimenting at this point - it seems capable of a number of different functions (but isn't exactly intuitive the way it's set up) but for sure with the Wireless setting turned on in the X-T2 the camera immediately added accurate geotagging information to the next photo I took ... which was of my phone, go figure ...