Location services/ significant locations

Don't frustrate yourselves. THERE IS NO WORKAROUND. This is a bug that only Apple can fix. A huge bug.

The app Geofency seems to do what this feature used to do.

Disappointing Apple took this away.

BTW - Rebooting did not make any difference to me. I can only drill into one day of history.

I found a workaround that may be helpful to some. If you are also allowing google maps to track your location, I was able to find similar information a timeline.google.com.

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.

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’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 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.

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.

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

Im following another thread where we’ve been requested to send in feedback. It’s ridiculous, the information is Face ID or fingerprint protected so there should be no privacy issue. Myself and my partner use this feature for work, luckily I caught the update fairly early on but I still lost at least a weeks worth of location information and £ as a result.

Significant locations is one of the reasons why I’ve stuck with iPhone for many years as it was such a helpful feature for my work, really disappointed that this feature has been taken away with no warning.

I’m having the same issue since updating to IOS 15 and am desperate to be able to view the 185 records that appear to be in the summary box.  I went through a support chat with Apple who were unfortunately only able to recommend I leave feedback at apple.com/feedback/iphone

I did ask the support chat whether reverting back to IOS 14.8 would enable me to access my records; however, was told that it wouldn’t – has anyone any other thoughts on this possible solution?

Marc M has made some good points above.  Surely all the data is still there locally on everyones phone and all it needs is Apple to put a button on the page that we can all click on to access it!!

At the moment, I can only hope that Apple can quickly come up with a work around – especially if enough people register their own feedback with apple.com/feedback/iphone

End-to-end encrypted:

From the Apple website:

Significant Locations: Your iPhone and iCloud-connected devices will keep track of places you have recently been, as well as how often and when you visited them, in order to learn places that are significant to you. This data is end-to-end encrypted and cannot be read by Apple. It is used to provide you with personalized services, such as predictive traffic routing, and to build better Memories in Photos.

again, friend, *in my humble opinion*, people with access to a phone may include parents of children, spouses, and lovers. if you share an icloud accont, the data is visible on the phone. ipad. and mac.

this is a security loophole on par with (i might argue greater than) CSAM.

i feel your pain and frustration. i needed that data in a personal crisis myself. i dont necessarily agree with the reasoning.

but i do not expect this "feature" to returrn and i will use a third party solution in its place.

I am having this issue too. Is there an answer?