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Location services/ significant locations

Why can’t I view my summary in significant locations where it shows how many records I have? I want to look at my previous locations and the only thing I can click on is my recents which only shows two things and nothing more…

Posted on Sep 22, 2021 12:15 AM

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Posted on Oct 14, 2021 5:17 AM

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.

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Oct 3, 2021 2:08 AM in response to ovianna

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.

Oct 3, 2021 5:47 AM in response to ovianna

So actually, I’ve been having apple support help me with this issue. The Very last thing they let me know was to make sure my backup was updated and then to install the new version of update… and restarting my phone and I was feeling 50/50. But after I did all the steps it seems it still wasn’t working. It may work with others but as I’m aware sounds pointless to do.

Oct 17, 2021 3:51 AM in response to Marc Marshall

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.

Oct 20, 2021 3:44 AM in response to gerilyn33

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.

Oct 29, 2021 7:31 AM in response to JusBer

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.

Oct 29, 2021 8:04 AM in response to beniamino1960

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.

Oct 29, 2021 8:16 AM in response to ShawnInAA

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

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