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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who uses this feature for business tracking purposes, although not so glad to see that there's no easy workaround.

Has anyone tried this suggestion of turning off location tracking, rebooting, the turning it back on? That certainly sounds like it will delete all existing records, which would rather defeat the point if there were records I wanted to be able to look at, so I'm reluctant to even try it.

For what it's worth, this data not being accessible goes beyond just being loss of a very useful feature for those of us who are bad at time tracking for work; the fact that there is fairly sensitive data being stored that is completely inaccessible to the user is fundamentally problematic.