Location services/ significant locations

Same problem (13 pro) here in the Netherlands… I also use this option for work/travel time, and even to find out how late I got home after a good drink… my daughter’s XS en Xr have the same issue after updating. Hope this will soon be fixed.

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.

IT partially WORKED!!!!!….I turned off location services, rebooted my phone, and then turned location services back on again. I went from no history at all to 2 months of history for home and work only. In the past, it had about 2 months history of just about every place I had been.

I use this feature to track my overtime, I’ve literally lost all of my hours due to this update.

** also with the new “focus” feature, I can no longer add an auto reply text from one device without having all of my devices silenced.

this update has caused me more grief for work than help.

Apple changing this has cost my a lot of hours that I now cannot charge customers for.

This may result in a loss of thousands of pounds for me.

thanks apple for letting everyone know that this feature would be inoperable after this update.

how can my phone be storing data about where I have been without giving me the option to download my information? It that even legal?

I can definitely say that when my contract is up for renewal I will be switching from Apple to another manufacturer.

I have stuck with Apple for well over 10 years, I have iPads, iPhones and macs but I will slowly be moving away from Apple, never to return if this issue is not sorted.

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.

I ask him to give me his phone and he gives it to me, so he’s consenting. If he’s not aware of this feature that’s his problem. You have the option to turn off this feature. Your comment doesn’t apply to my situation.

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.

In the same boat.

It’s been over a month now. Where is the fix? You are costing us hours of work etc because we cannot access something that was depended on for years, regardless of other iOS updates.

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.

Thanks! I new it should have had that feature, but didn't find it. Somehow I forgot to check under the Settings. Now at least I have the days to the iOS update, but after that still don't have, because I haven't run the app after the update, and you have to give permissions again. But at least some money is not lost.

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.

The problem is, that it shows only places after you installed the app, it does not have access to past locations. As a new way to track your future locations, it is very good app, same as One Day. But we want to get our past location's data because we cannot make our invoices, get paid etc. Privacy related, only Apple has access to that. It was very unrespectful decision from Apple to abandon this feature without any warnings

did you even read his question? or are you just a computer generated answer? Apple have changed things again I need and use this info for my work time sheets niw I've got nothing to view for the month of October so I wont be getting paid, How do we view the places we've been?

THIS IS ABSURD! I rely on this monthly to track my mileage. I manage multiple locations for work and this helps me keep track monthly rather than from memory. Argh Apple get your Ish together. I wish I would’ve known otherwise I would’ve waited in the update.

*SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!*