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!
People have installed 15.3 and 15.3.1 and still have this issue.
Update 19-12-2021: I've since my last post, at Dec 15th, the IFTTT App in the background and it works now. Didn't close or restart the IFTTT app for thee days. IFTTT with applet for Tahoma works fine at the moment.
before IOS 15 fully closed apps had no issues with geofencing, it just worked. Homekit app can be full closed and still works as expected, geofencing always works. I tried some apps to be left open in the background and some apps work some wont. Just to share info, Tado has given a reply on their forum: Hello,
With iOS 15.1, Apple finally fixed their app-closing ability.
This came at a cost.
Customers could close the app (swipe) before and the app would continue to run in the background, and would still be sending data (even though it was closed).
With iOS 15.1, the app that is closed in the background is closed completely. It stops sharing any data. It is important that the tado° app is running in the background.
Closing the tado° app will make it so the tado° app doesn't receive updates.
That may be so, but orchestrated MobiLinc still does NOT work using 15.2.
Geofencing problems with iOS15.01
