Significant Locations

On my iPhone-I was referencing “significant locations” as a way to track my day on the road, to and from work.

it works great but I seem to be loosing trips that were previously recorded in my locations.

Is there any way to retrieve the missing dates?


It looks like this feature, only holds so many locations and then writes over/replaces the older ones. And only goes so far back.


I would love to go by “date range” or even just do a search, to retrieve some old trips I forgot to write down in my logs for travel to and from work.


Any helpful advice on how to retrieve this data, is much appreciated.

thanks

Posted on Jul 9, 2021 3:25 PM

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Posted on Jul 10, 2021 3:00 AM

There is no way to retrieve the data which does not exist on your device.

If you have a backup then please try to restore from it and know the risks involved.


The question is when did you backup on iTunes and when did you delete it...Read on...


Let us assume...

Date1: Backup date

Date2: (Significant Location) Data Deletion Date

Date3: Current Date / Restoration Date


Given that --> Date1 < Date2 < Date3 

  1. Risk of restoring on Date3:
    1. You may lose data between the Date1 & Date 3
    2. By default, iTunes creates incremental backup over the existing backup such that you only will have one backup per device on iTunes
    3. If you have taken another backup between Date2 and Date3, then the data that was deleted on the device on Date 2 is also deleted on the backup.
    4. If the above point is true then data is lost completely.


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Jul 10, 2021 3:00 AM in response to Charliebrowntown

There is no way to retrieve the data which does not exist on your device.

If you have a backup then please try to restore from it and know the risks involved.


The question is when did you backup on iTunes and when did you delete it...Read on...


Let us assume...

Date1: Backup date

Date2: (Significant Location) Data Deletion Date

Date3: Current Date / Restoration Date


Given that --> Date1 < Date2 < Date3 

  1. Risk of restoring on Date3:
    1. You may lose data between the Date1 & Date 3
    2. By default, iTunes creates incremental backup over the existing backup such that you only will have one backup per device on iTunes
    3. If you have taken another backup between Date2 and Date3, then the data that was deleted on the device on Date 2 is also deleted on the backup.
    4. If the above point is true then data is lost completely.


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