Location services/ significant locations

I rely on my significant location history to invoice my clients for time spent. This update is not the first time that I’ve had issues with my location tracking. It is clear that the data is there, but like others have said, only a summary and the most recent four, and even on those 4 I cannot pull any detailed info as to the time I was actually there.

This is an imperative function for business owners and independent contractors who bill for hourly work.

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.

I’ve an iPhone 12 Pro Max with this issue: that summary is there but with no apparent way to expand it and my most recent 4 locations are in black text on grey which is really hard to read. I rely on this info for timesheets.

I want to add to the chorus. This is not just an interesting feature to me. I rely on it to submit payroll timesheets. It appears that the summaries are retained, but I see no way to access the detailed data. Please fix this soon. Or at least post a work around ASAP.

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.

My husband cheated on me and all I can see is a summary of his locations. He’s too stupid to know about this feature. I’m LIVID that all the sudden this has changed. SERIOUSLY??!! It’s time to get rid of Apple.

Btw sorry it’s causing issues in your relationship. Seriously. I know how stressful it is.

I have the same problem since the upgrade to IOS15 on my iPhone 12 Pro. It shows in the summary that I have 160 records up to 30 Sep 21, but I can no longer access the details of each location. Like others here, I use the details of my significant locations to see when I've arrived and left work sites, so that I can invoice customers. Apple, please make this work the way it did in previous versions of IOS.

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

While I'm sympathetic to your situation, it's probably worth noting that using this feature to track the locations of a cheating spouse is the sort of use case that is almost certainly the reason that this information is no longer visible to the user. Personal time tracking is innocuous and very useful. Looking at a spouse or relative's phone, presumably without their knowledge or consent, could be a potentially dangerous privacy breech.

Let's say a spouse, rather than cheating, was seeking legal assistance to get out of an abusive relationship. Said abusive spouse being able to get into their phone to see every location they had traveled in the last two months could result in a genuinely dangerous situation.

Hey ovianna,

We see you have a question about Significant Locations. Significant Locations tracks your recent places you've visited, so you will only have access to that data. This article may interest you: Legal - Data & Privacy

If you would like to submit feedback and/or suggestions to Apple, click here: Product Feedback

Take care.

iPhone users:

First, please remember to support The Right to Repair when you get a chance to vote for a related bill in your state.

It will help end these problems.

If you have a "full back-up", I've read there might be a way to restore to iOS 14. You have to perform it a specific way to prevent the phone from upgrading to iOS 15 automatically after the "restore". You'll have to look elsewhere for instructions to this process, (if it even works), as I don't have time to look right now.

It is dependent upon Apple signing a copy of iOS 14, so you probably should try downgrading soon.

Please let me know you're results. It would be very helpful.

...Apple,

Before you remove functionality from our phones, provide some thorough "release notes"...not just list "new features".

We pay top dollar for the iPhone, your upgrades at worst should maintain their functionality, unless you tell us...

"Significant Locations" was an incredibly helpful and dependable feature (pre iOS15). Thank you for that Apple.

Many users adopted it for some critical jobs at work or for our personal lives. The upgrade to iOS 15 pulled the carpet out from under us when the detailed and well organized location history of "Significant Locations" was removed.

The iOS 15 release notes that came out, didn't list anything about missing features.

I've used that tool for seven years without an issue, for very important family uses and work.

Prior to upgrading to iOS 15, I performed a full backup to my local Mac.

That back-up is worthless however, as my phone is forced to automatically upgrade to iOS 15 once I perform the "restore from back-up". So following the pre-upgrade instructions doesn't allow for me to fix what went wrong.... I installed the newest iOS that doesn't have the feature I need.

An iPhone is one of the few product's, which downgrades regularly at the manufacture's whim.

-Maps was much easier to use when I purchased my phone. IOS 14's Maps was convoluted with very few signifiers. At times, on-screen signifiers were so sparse while extraneous features filled the screen, I had no clue where to just punch in an address.

-Calendars pre-iOS 14 was great. Everything was well labeled. Calendars in iOS 14 had a broken leg. Entering a start time and end time was confusing. iOS 15 addressed this by....by reverting to the previously functional design, or something similar.

Cripple a great product so you could fix it later.

Did you see my reply above? It shows all of that.

Also, not trying to minimize anyone's experience here, and so this suggestion is for purposes in the future, but people doing courier work might find something like the Tyme app useful as a primary source for this information.

I have the same problem. I have an iPhone Xs Max. I rely on the significant locations for many things. I am not happy with Apple for not releasing an update to patch this yet. Thankfully I did not update my iPad. I hope this gets fixed immediately.