Location services/ significant locations

I have found a way around this, you can not see the whole records in one report, but if manually change your date on your phone to the date of locations you want to see, your significant locations will show the locations of that date. You will also need to change the time, I found that if I wanted to view report from 3pm I had to put the date to around 7pm for it to appear, and earlier ones may disappear as it only shows a couple at a time. But have a mess around with the date and times and you’ll be able to piece together a whole log of the locations. Hope this works, this is the closest I’ve found and most simple.

To repeat the post above, the app "Geofency" does exactly what this feature used to do for me. I've been using it for a couple of weeks and I'm pretty happy with it. It has the added feature of distinguishing some locations as "Monitored" for quicker access. But it also shows the timing for all of the Significant Locations, which appears to provide access to the data that is being hidden in the Apple Significant Locations view.

It's not entirely "on-device". Like only in the iPhone. It's in Icloud. I can go on my mac and go to

• Security & Privacy
• unlock
• click on Location Services
• click on System Services "Details"
• check Significant Locations box
• click on Details

up pops a map and a list of locations. mine seems to lag about a week behind. Applecare told me that the info is in the mac system but not accessible in the i0s15 phone/ipad

IT partially WORKED, but didn’t work!!!!!….I turned off location services, rebooted my phone, and then turned location services back on again. I went from the screen showing 0 records to it saying that it had 301 records for the last 2 months. However, in the detailed section below that, it only shows 2 locations (home and work) and then it only shows the times for yesterday. In the past, it had about 2 months history of just about every place I had been.

Found a workaround in another post:

"I FIGURED IT OUT. If you depend on this information to fill out your payroll I'm right there with you! 😭

Solution? If you have a Mac, you can still view your location history in detail by going into system preferences > security and privacy > *unlocking the lock with your password* > "details" on system preferences."

Worked for me. Lucky I have a Mac :)

When I talked to Applecare they said the iPhone and iPad still track but don't show locations but on my MacBook the locations from the iPhone do show because it is not running the same iOS15. They said to make a complaint to "feedback" which I did. Apple.com/feedback

It looks like it was locked down for privacy concerns (the recent Child Safety Monitoring App for example was completely cancelled). Nobody with ios 15 can see their history.

But I may have found a workaround. I have an older Macbook Air running Catalina. And if I go to Settings -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Location Services -> System Services (click Details...) -> Significant Locations (click Details...)

I get a list of my significant locations and all my recent visits.

I was not able to see my history on my MacBook Pro running Monterey. Nor on my iPad.

But I just checked my Apple Watch and it has a recent history that is visible.

Friends, I don't think this "feature" is ever coming back. It gives away personal information and Apple is working hard to prevent personal information from getting out. The only workaround is to use an older (pre macOS-15) version of the OS and hope you can get the data there.

Another alternative is third party apps.

Contacted Apple support and was told this is a know. Issue with iPhone 11 Pro. Should get fixed on next update. Need update released asap before end of month to send out invoices.

My workaround: I use the Life Cycle app to see my detailed location activity. Google Maps will do the same. HOWEVER, every time I update my iPhone, I have to Disable and then Enable Significant Locations. Then, re-start my iPhone. Otherwise the detailed location history won't show in the app.

I talked to the Apple Support Team and the issue is well known! They asked me to leave a feedback on their website

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203033

(at the end of the page, where they ask if the page was helpful, klick “NO“ and leave a comment)

The more feedback they receive, the higher will be the ranking to prioritize the debugging of the software.

I am having this issue too. One work-around that I found is through my Day One app. If you go to Settings>Location History>Visit History, you are then provided with an option for "All Visits" or by device. I think this will provide everyone what they're looking for.

Slight clarification, to avoid any confusion: Unless I'm very mistaken, all of this data is stored entirely on-device.

So Apple doesn't have this information, in that it's not stored or able to be used by Apple on a server elsewhere. Your phone has the information stored on it--locally--and is able to use it--again, locally--to determine patterns for Frequent Locations, which it will then use for suggestions.

This of course doesn't help at all for people who want access to the data, but there is a non-trivial distinction between Apple itself being able to access this data, and your phone being able to do internal processing on data that is not accessible from anywhere else. I do still believe that, since the data is being stored, the user should be able to access it, but it's not the same as the case of Apple having direct access to data that the user does not.

If you give a specific app permission to use this same data (such as the great suggestion to use DayOne as a log), that app does get access to the same data, but only from the point that you give it permission onward. This problem could be effectively mitigated if there was a method for an app to request access to all location data, not just "from now on" data, but that doesn't seem to be a thing that's currently allowed. I'm also not sure whether a separate database is generated for an app that is granted access to location data, or if the app is using the same central system database but with a time restriction on requests.

@Tommycz - I understand. But the location information in your phone can be viewed unencrypted.

People have been using this "feature" to track their kids, spouses, and lovers. So it could be seen as a security liability for Apple. Not that they've advertised it this way, but IMHO, I would be surprised if the "feature" ever returned.

My reason for this opinion is the recent removal of Child Sexual Abuse Material features. Apple was roundly criticized for comparing on-phone images to those in the CSAM database. In this case, no actual data was shared. Only "hashes" of images were shared. But the backlash was so significant that they removed all mention of it from their site.

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-child-safety-csam/#:~:text=As%20noted%20by%20MacRumors%2C%20Apple,significant%20criticism%20of%20its%20methods.

So, it's my opinion that Apple will not allow anyone access to the "Significant Locations" under any circumstances. Now, or in the future, due to the security implications.