Does anybody experience Geofencing issues.
Although Location is Always On, some geofenced apps don't update the location at all, some only when app is opened.
(for instance Honeywell and iConnectHue).
Anybody having a solution?
iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 15
All, I just set up a workaround on my partners 12 Mini running 15.2:
- open the "Shortcuts" app
- press back to get to the homepage
- create a new "automation" that is triggered by arriving at required location, and make it open relevant app. Set the location size ring to be about the same size as your geofence size for whatever app youre using
-Create another automation for leaving required location, again to open the relevant app with the appropriate location ring
That will now open the app automatically (in my case Smartthings) to enable triggering of location based automation,which works because the app is foreground even if screen is off. Have just confirmed that this works outbound and inbound, have finally got her phone to trigger my heating.
Obviously this is a short term fix until Apple fix what is clearly a bug. For a long term fix I recommend Android!
I've submitted a ticket via the Feedback website along with my sysdiagnosis files from my iPhone. It seems they may have found an issue with the Geofencing and will be resolved in a future update. (Hopefully)
I’ve been doing a bit of testing and Mobilinc if open and on my dashboard page everything works great. I get push notification and the stat variable under programs gets changes automatically once I hear the geofence boundaries. If I’m not in my Mobilinc app nothing happens. All the issues started when iso15 was loaded, I’m on 15.2 and as others have noticed and the problem persists.
Tempted to revert back to latest iso14???
I have the same issue since I upgraded to 15.01. My geofencing is not working anymore for my Mobilinc HD app. I can no longer trust my Iphone to send signal to my Automated home system to lock the doors and shut off the lights. My other Iphone on IOS 14 is still working fine.
The problem is that I as the user have no control about what app is closed by the OS because of memory needed etc.
This change renders all "smart" apps or products useless, if I have to manually open or keep open apps.
This can only be a bug, not feature. Or otherwise why would Apple give us the option to let an app use our location "always" if that would in fact only mean "while app is open".
I agree that the current implementation is not satisfactory. In my case, I use a geofence on both my phone and my wife’s to tell OrchMobiLinc that we are BOTH not home, and therefore should set the house to AWAY mode. There’s no way I can ensure the app is running on both phones each and every time one of leaves.
Beside that, it’s still not clear to me that the function works 100% even with the app open.
Same issue here. Me and my wife have Iphone 13, out of the box running on IOS 15.2.
we use geofencing on our Honeywell home App, for our thermostat T6. Location is set to « always » and background app is allowed. It is not triggering the geofence location unless we open the honeywell app. Also we have a lot of issues with our GPS not updating so easily. Per example on apple carplay, we need to unplug and plug back to have the gps refresh our location…
hope this gets fixed soon… never had these issues on my galaxy S10!
It would seem to have "fixed" the issue I was experiencing with the geofencing issues and my Nest App. However, my IFTTT app and it's location-based routines, did NOT work today as they had been for the past month after I updated my iOS. I'm still experiencing intermittent issues with my August locks and location-based routines via Amazon Alexa still do NOT work. Very frustrating and hoping that iOS 15.3 alleviates these geo-fencing issues, since I cannot seem to get any remedy through either Apple support or any of these third-party device manufactures to fix this issue.
I'm on iOS 15.3.1 and the issue still persists.
I actually held off on updating to iOS 15 until about a month or two ago, and expected that by the 2nd major update to iOS 15 that these bugs would be worked out. The fact that it isn't and that this has become a common trend with Apple makes me regret ever buying an iPhone. I wouldn't be having this issue on Android right now.
For me, it's the Hue app. I've had it work once in the last 3 days. Android Hue users don't seem to be reporting this issue. I have no doubt the situation is better for a lot of users, but I have a 1st Gen iPhone SE, and I know we've gotten shafted a few times in the past with bugs that have plagued us far more than others with more modern phones.
We have many users affected by this issue and restarting the device did not help everyone. The issue persists even after restart.
Hi,
since 2 weeks, I use iOS 15.02. I also have trouble with my smart home app which use geofencing.
Did you still have any issues or did you find a solution?
Many thanks.
I use mobilinc to control my home automation and geofence stopped working a while ago. It wasn’t fixed in 15.01,15.02 or 15.1 .
Does Apple even look at these blogs?
We are also experiencing this issue. Region and significant location monitoring are not working reliably on iOS 15.
Same problem here with 2 iPhone 13 ios 15.1
Locative, IFTTT,…. not working
This bug has to be solved urgently because our day to day depends on it
I thought I'm the only one. not it seems like not the hardware problem. I'm still struggling for a solution. My 6 years Old Samsung is my temporary solution at the moment.
Geofencing problems with iOS15.01
